Louis Washkansky

Louis Joshua Washkansky () adalah seorang pria Afrika Selatan yang menerima transplantasi jantung manusia ke manusia pertama di dunia, dan pasien pertama yang sadar kembali setelah operasi. Washkansky hidup selama 18 hari dan dapat berbicara dengan istrinya dan wartawan.1967 Year In ReviewS Afr Med J, "A human cardiac transplant: an interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town", Barnard CN, 1967 Dec 30; 41(48): 1271–74.Louis Washkansky (1913 – 1967) , Science Museum.  Louis was born in Lithuania in 1913 and moved to South Africa in 1922.

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South African history: Louis Washkansky
World's First Heart Transplant1
World's First Heart Transplant2
Denise Darvall the donor for the World's First Heart Transplant
Article from Time Magazine, 29 December 1967
Article from Life Magazine, 15 December 1967

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