What is Heart transplant?
{{one source|date=December 2023}} [[File:Heart transplant.jpg|thumb|This picture shows where the new heart is placed.]] A '''heart transplant''' is a type of [[surgery]] where someone's damaged or failing [[heart]] is removed and replaced with a healthier donor heart, likely to be from someone who passed just a few hours prior to the surgery. it is required that two or more healthcare providers declare the donor brain-dead. It is otherwise known as an 'open heart procedure', taking several hours to accomplish. The first heart transplant on a [[human]] was done by [[Christiaan Barnard]] on [[Louis Washkansky]], a 54-year-old with both [[diabetes]] and incurable heart disease at the time. This procedure was carried out on Sunday 3rd December 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmbarn.html |title=A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Christiaan Barnard |work=pbs.org |year=2011 |accessdate=March 20, 2011}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.heart-transplant.co.uk/ Heart transplant website built by heart transplant patient, John Fisher] {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Surgery]] [[Category:Heart]] [[Category:Transplants]]