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2 unusual facts about heart transplantation


Elizabeth Craze

Craze, at the time of the operation and as of 2011, is the youngest known surviving patient to have received a heart transplant.

Surgeon Simulator 2013

Game-play consists of the player attempting to perform various surgical procedures, for example a heart transplant.


C. Walton Lillehei

A dedicated educator, Lillehei trained more than 150 cardiac surgeons from 40 nations, including Norman Shumway and Christiaan Barnard, who formed half of the quartet which pioneered heart transplantation (the others being Richard Lower and Adrian Kantrowitz).


see also

Heart–lung transplant

Dr. Norman Shumway laid the groundwork for heart lung transplantation with his experiments into heart transplantation at Stanford in the mid 1960s.

Savi Savi Nenapu

Santosh Rai Pathaje has undertaken the topic of heart transplantation and has weaved around it a love story.