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Doctor who performed first heart transplant dies
Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the South African cardiologist who performed the world's first heart transplant but whose surgical successes were ultimately overshadowed by his playboy celebrity, died yesterday at age 78.
He suffered a fatal asthma attack after a morning swim at a resort in the coastal town of Paphos, Cyprus, where he often vacationed.
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Barnard had spent many years experimenting with heart transplants, mainly with dogs, before he walked into the operating room at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town at about 1 a.m. on Dec. 3, 1967 and replaced Louis Washkansky's 53-year-old heart — crippled by diabetes and heart disease — with the heart of 25-year-old Denise Darvall, who had died in a car accident.
It was "a very easy organ to transplant.
There will be much greater scientific breakthroughs in medicine, because the heart transplant was not a scientific breakthrough. It was a technical breakthrough," he later