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79 relations: Adrian Kantrowitz, Ann McLane Kuster, Aortic valve, Apartheid, Asthma, Atresia, Austria, Autopsy, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Beaufort West, Boyd Rush, C. Walton Lillehei, Cape Province, Cape Town, Cardiothoracic surgery, Cardiovascular disease, Ceres, Western Cape, Ciclosporin, Cyprus Mail, Denise Darvall, Diabetes mellitus, Donald McRae (author), Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, Ebstein's anomaly, Emeritus, Food and Drug Administration, Geoffrey Tovey, Gina Lollobrigida, Groote Schuur Hospital, Hamilton Naki, Heart transplantation, Helga Kuhse, Immunosuppressive drug, Internship (medicine), Intestinal atresia, Jackson, Mississippi, James Hardy (surgeon), Kidney transplantation, Louis Washkansky, Marius Barnard (surgeon), Medical school, Minneapolis, Mississippi, National Institutes of Health, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Norman Shumway, Organ transplantation, Owen Harding Wangensteen, Paphos, Parliament of South Africa, ..., Pete McCloskey, Peter Singer, Philip Blaiberg, Photogenic, Pierre Grondin, Pneumonia, Pope Paul VI, Progressive Federal Party, René Favaloro, Residency (medicine), Rheumatoid arthritis, Richard Lower (surgeon), Soweto uprising, Springer Science+Business Media, Steve Biko, Surgeon, Switzerland, Tetralogy of Fallot, The Guardian, Transplant rejection, Union of South Africa, University of Cape Town, University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Medical Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Vladimir Demikhov, White South Africans, World Cultural Council, Xenotransplantation. Expand index (29 more) »
Adrian Kantrowitz
Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant attempt at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967.
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Ann McLane Kuster
Ann 'Annie' McLane Kuster (born September 5, 1956) is an American politician, author and attorney who has been the U.S. Representative for since 2013.
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Aortic valve
The aortic valve is a valve in the human heart between the left ventricle and the aorta.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Asthma
Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.
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Atresia
Atresia is a condition in which an orifice or passage in the body is (usually abnormally) closed or absent.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Autopsy
An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.
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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, or in '''Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae'''. (abbreviated in many ways, e.g. MBBS, MB ChB, MB BCh, MB BChir (Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), BMBS), are the two first professional degrees in medicine and surgery awarded upon graduation from medical school by universities in countries that follow the tradition of the United Kingdom.
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Beaufort West
Beaufort West (Afrikaans: Beaufort-Wes) is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa.
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Boyd Rush
Boyd Rusia Rush (July 4, 1895 – January 24, 1964)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.
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C. Walton Lillehei
Clarence Walton "Walt" Lillehei (October 23, 1918 – July 5, 1999), was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery.
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Cape Province
The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsie van die Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province (Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape (Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Cardiothoracic surgery
Cardiothoracic surgery (also known as thoracic surgery) is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thorax (the chest)—generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease) and lungs (lung disease).
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Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.
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Ceres, Western Cape
Ceres is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
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Ciclosporin
Ciclosporin, also spelled cyclosporine and cyclosporin, is an immunosuppressant medication and natural product.
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Cyprus Mail
Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus.
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Denise Darvall
Denise Ann Darvall (27 February 19423 December 1967) was the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Donald McRae (author)
Donald McRae is a South African writer.
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Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa
Three churches from the Dutch Reformed Church tradition in South Africa are often mentioned together as "three sister churches".
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Ebstein's anomaly
Ebstein's anomaly is a congenital heart defect in which the septal and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve are displaced towards the apex of the right ventricle of the heart.
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Emeritus
Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.
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Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.
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Geoffrey Tovey
Geoffrey Harold Tovey (29 May 1916 – 19 December 2001) was a doctor whose scientific contributions in the field of haematology brought him an international reputation.
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Gina Lollobrigida
Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor.
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Groote Schuur Hospital
Groote Schuur Hospital is a large, government-funded, teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Hamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki (26 June 1926 – 29 May 2005) was a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.
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Heart transplantation
A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed.
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Helga Kuhse
Helga Kuhse is an Australian utilitarian philosopher and bioethicist.
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Immunosuppressive drug
Immunosuppressive drugs or immunosuppressive agents or antirejection medications are drugs that inhibit or prevent activity of the immune system.
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Internship (medicine)
Medical intern is a term used in some countries to describe a physician in training who has completed medical school and has a medical degree, but does not yet have a full license to practice medicine unsupervised.
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Intestinal atresia
Intestinal atresia is a malformation where there is a narrowing or absence of a portion of the intestine.
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Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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James Hardy (surgeon)
James D. Hardy (May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003) was a United States surgeon who performed the world's first lung transplant with patient John Russell living for 18 days.
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Kidney transplantation
Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease.
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Louis Washkansky
Louis Washkansky (1913 – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation.
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Marius Barnard (surgeon)
Marius Stephanus Barnard (November 3, 1927 – November 14, 2014) was a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance.
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Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution —or part of such an institution— that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
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Norman Shumway
Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University.
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Organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ.
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Owen Harding Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (September 21, 1898 – January 13, 1981) was an American surgeon who developed the Wangensteen tube, which used suction to treat small bowel obstruction, an innovation estimated to have saved a million lives by the time of his death.
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Paphos
Paphos (Πάφος; Baf) is a coastal city in the southwest of Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District.
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Parliament of South Africa
The Parliament of South Africa is South Africa's legislature and under the country's current Constitution is composed of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.
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Pete McCloskey
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. (born September 29, 1927) is a former Republican politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983.
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Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer, AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher.
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Philip Blaiberg
Philip Blaiberg (24 May 1909 – 17 August 1969) was a South Africa dentist and the third person to receive a heart transplant.
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Photogenic
A subject (generally a person) is photogenic if appearing aesthetically or physically attractive or appealing in photographs.
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Pierre Grondin
Pierre Rene Grondin, MD (August 18, 1925 - January 17, 2006) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon who was one of the first doctors to perform a successful heart transplant.
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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978) reigned from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978.
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Progressive Federal Party
The Progressive Federal Party (PFP) (Progressiewe Federale Party) was a South African political party formed in 1977.
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René Favaloro
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Residency (medicine)
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training.
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Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints.
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Richard Lower (surgeon)
Richard Rowland Lower (August 15, 1929 – May 17, 2008) was an American pioneer of cardiac surgery, particularly in the field of heart transplantation.
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Soweto uprising
The Soweto uprising was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
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Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a physician who performs surgical operations.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Tetralogy of Fallot
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a type of heart defect present at birth.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Transplant rejection
Transplant rejection occurs when transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient's immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue.
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Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.
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University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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University of Minnesota Medical Center
The University of Minnesota Medical Center is the main university hospital for the University of Minnesota Medical School, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
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Vladimir Demikhov
Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (Влади́мир Петро́вич Де́михов; Khutor Kulikovsky, July 18, 1916 – Moscow, November 22, 1998) was a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, who performed several transplantations in the 1930s and 1950s, such as the transplantation of a heart into an animal and a lung-heart replacement in an animal.
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White South Africans
White South Africans are South Africans descended from any of the white racial groups of Europe and the Levant who regard themselves, or are not regarded as, not being part of another racial group (for example, as Coloureds).
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World Cultural Council
The World Cultural Council is an international organization whose goals are to promote cultural values, goodwill and philanthropy among individuals.
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Xenotransplantation
Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign"), is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.
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References
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