On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on a human being.

Dr Christiaan Barnard ineffectually pawed the air before him. "I can't see," the world's most famous heart surgeon complained mildly. Would have been worrying but for the fact that few people can ...

Cape Town - Fifty-six years ago Dr Christiaan Barnard walked through the entrance of the Old Main Building of Groote Schuur ...

Paul Guggenheimer Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. | Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. Six months before Dr. Christiaan Barnard conducted the world’s first highly-publicized heart ...

Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a ...

Develops a steroid, cortisone, for this purpose. 1967 The first heart transplant operation is performed by Christiaan Barnard. The patient only survives for eighteen days; later patients survive ...