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spent in the United States as the most fascinating time
in my life.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922
2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the worlds rst successful humanto-human heart transplant.
Early life
Career
In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States under openheart surgery pioneer Walt Lillehei.[1] It was during this
time that Barnard rst became acquainted with fellow
future heart transplantation surgeon Norman Shumway,
who along with Richard Lower did much of the trailblazing research leading to the rst successful human heart
transplant.[1] In 1958 he received a Master of Science in
Surgery for a thesis titled The aortic valve problems in
the fabrication and testing of a prosthetic valve.[1] The
same year he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree
for his dissertation titled The aetiology of congenital in-
He performed the worlds rst human heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967, in an operation assisted by
his brother, Marius Barnard; the operation lasted nine
hours and used a team of thirty people.[1] The patient,
Louis Washkansky, was a 54-year-old grocer, suering
from diabetes and incurable heart disease.[1][5] Barnard
later wrote, For a dying man it is not a dicult decision
because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to
the bank of a river lled with crocodiles, you will leap into
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5 PERSONAL LIFE
Public life
5 Personal life
Barnards rst marriage was to Aletta Gertruida Louw,
a nurse, whom he married in 1948 while practising
medicine in Ceres. The couple had two children
Deirdre (born 1950) and Andre (19511984).[1][8] International fame took a toll on his personal life, and in
1969, Barnard and his wife divorced. In 1970, he married
heiress Barbara Zoellner when she was 19, the same age
as his son, and they had two children Frederick (born
1972) and Christiaan Jr. (born 1974).[9] He divorced
Zoellner in 1982.[9] Barnard married for a third time in
1988 to Karin Setzkorn, a young model.[9] They also had
two children, Armin (born 1990) and Lara (born 1997),
but this last marriage also ended in divorce in 2000.[9]
Barnard described in his autobiography The Second Life
a one-night extramarital aair with Italian lm star Gina
Lollobrigida,[1][10] that occurred in January 1968. During
that visit to Rome he received an audience from Pope Paul
VI.[11]
In October 2016, U.S. Congresswoman Ann McLane
Kuster (D-NH) stated that Barnard sexually assaulted her
when she was 23 years old. According to Kuster, he attempted to grope her under her skirt, while seated at a
business luncheon with Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-CA),
whom she was a staer for at the time.[12][13][14]
Retirement
Barnard retired as Head of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Cape Town in 1983 after developing
rheumatoid arthritis in his hands which ended his surgical career. He had struggled with arthritis since 1956,
when it was diagnosed during his postgraduate work in
the United States.[1] After retirement, he spent two years
as the Scientist-In-Residence at the Oklahoma Transplantation Institute in the United States and as an acting consultant for various institutions.
He had by this time become very interested in anti-aging
research, and his reputation suered in 1986 when he
promoted Glycel, an expensive anti-aging skin cream,
whose approval was withdrawn by the United States
Food and Drug Administration soon thereafter.[15] He
also spent time as a research advisor to the Clinique la
Prairie, in Switzerland, where the controversial rejuvenation therapy was practised.[16]
Barnard divided the remainder of his years between
Austria, where he established the Christiaan Barnard
Foundation, dedicated to helping underprivileged children throughout the world, and his game farm in Beaufort
West, South Africa.
Death
Books
9 See also
Organ transplantation
Ren Favaloro
Pierre Grondin
Hamilton Naki
Georey Tovey
10 References
[1] McRae, D. (2007). Every Second Counts. Berkley.
[2] Bosco, Teresio (1968) Uomini come noi, Societ Editrice
Internazionale
[3] Barnard, Marius. Dening Moments.
[4] Lederer, Susan E. (2008). Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century
America. Oxford University Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780-19-516150-2.
[5] Memories of the Heart.
Daily Intelligencer.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 29 November 1987. p.
A-18.
[6] Dirk van Zyl, 68; Had '71 Transplant. New York Times.
7 July 1994. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
[7] Its the quality of survival thats important. Hinduonnet.com (31 October 1997). Retrieved on 2015-06-30.
"Christiaan Barnard, celebrated pioneer of heart transplant surgery, dies aged 78", The Independent, 3 September 2001. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
Christiaan Barnard Biography. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
Barnard, Chris (1994). Druh dech [The Second Life] (in
Czech). Prague: Lidov noviny. pp. 7071. ISBN 807106-096-8.
[13] http://www.nh1.com/news/
rep-annie-kuster-tells-concord-monitor-famous-doctor-sexually-assaulted-h
[14] http://www.usnews.com/news/
politics/articles/2016-10-13/
trump-comments-prompt-congresswoman-to-share-assault-story
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