1905 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944); GUTHRIE, Charles Claude (1880 – 1963)

The transplantation of veins and organs.

Reports experimental heart transplantation in a dog. See also the earlier paper on pp. 284-5.

GMN 3025.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5482

1933 MANN, Frank Charles (1897 – 1962); PRIESTLEY, James Taggart (1904 – ); YATER, Wallace M. (1895 – 1976); MARKOWITZ, J.

Transplantation of the intact mammalian heart.

Mann and colleagues accomplished the first transplantation of an intact mammalian heart.

GMN 11688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13889

1960 LOWER, Richard Rowland (1929 – 2008); SHUMWAY, Norman Edward (1923 – 2006)

Studies on orthotopic homotransplantation of the canine heart.

Important experimental technique (Shumway); reported eight heart homotransplants.

GMN 3047.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3613

1964 HARDY, James Daniel (1918 – 2003); ET AL

Heart transplantation in man: Developmental studies and report of a case.

Heart transplant from a chimpanzee into a man; unsuccessful. Hardy was expecting the donor heart to be obtained from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, but the patient went into terminal myocardial fail…

GMN 3047.19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3632

1967 BARNARD, Christiaan Neethling (1922 – 2001)

A human cardiac transplant: An interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

First human heart transplant. The operation was on Dec. 3, 1967, and the patient died on Dec. 21.

GMN 3047.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3636

1969 COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); LIOTTA, Domingo Santo (1924 – )

Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.

The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…

GMN 7810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9982

1974 SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ); FOX, Renée Claire (1928 – )

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.

GMN 12343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14567

1982 SHUMWAY, Norman Edward (1923 – 2006); REITZ, Bruce A.

Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.

First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates. Abstract "We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. T…

GMN 10659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12852

1983 DEVRIES, William Castle (1943 – ); JOYCE, Lyle D.

The artificial heart.

First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failur…

GMN 12230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14444

1984 KOLFF, Willem Johann (1911 – 2009); DEVRIES, William Castle (1943 – ); JOYCE, Lyle D.; JARVIK, Robert Koffler (1946 – )

Clinical use of the total artificial heart.

"Abstract "We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The heart [Jarvik-7] was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with chroni…

GMN 12231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14445

2018 MCKELLAR, Shelley (1967 – )

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

GMN 10186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12375