{"title":"The Evolution of the Heart Transplant Surgical Technique.","authors":"Mehmet H Akay, Erik E Suarez, O H Frazier","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1572","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This overview of the history of human cardiac transplant shares detailed illustrations to demonstrate how surgical procedures have improved since the first human transplant was performed in 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"21 3","pages":"25-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12082476/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1572","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This overview of the history of human cardiac transplant shares detailed illustrations to demonstrate how surgical procedures have improved since the first human transplant was performed in 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa.