First Heart Surgery
On 23 january 1964 james hardy at the university of mississippi medical center in jackson mississippi performed the world s first heart transplant and world s first cardiac xenotransplant by transplanting the heart of a chimpanzee into a desperately ill and dying man. Two surgeons from the university of minnesota dr. Dr Myra Adele Logan First Woman To Perform Open Heart Surgery Open Heart Surgery Heart Surgery African American Studies This heart did beat in the patient s chest for approximately 60 to 90 minutes. First heart surgery . First heart surgery there is no real date of when it occured but it was preformed by dr. Dwight harken on a soldier who had shrapnel in his heart jan 1 1948. A people who don t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization. Walton lillehei and dr. First corretive heart surgery it was created to correct mitral stenosis a vaule that does not open completely most patients died. Access was through a left thoracotom
