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Technologies of heart transplantation: it is now 40 years since the world's first heart transplant was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. It is interesting to assess just how far heart transplantation has come since then.(material matters column)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The rise and fall of heart transplantation I am writing this column just after taking a tour around the new Heart of Cape Town Museum in Groote Schuur Hospital. This is where, just over 40 years ago, Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human ...
March 1, 2008; Medical Device Technology

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1. Technologies of heart transplantation: it is now 40 years since the world's first heart transplant was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. It is interesting to assess just how far heart transplantation has come since then.(material matters column)