Louis Washkansky

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Louis Washkansky (born 1913 in Slobodka, died December 21, 1967) in Cape Town - the first man to undergo heart transplant. Washkansky was born in Lithuania (then the Russian Empire), but in 1922 he emigrated with his friends to South Africa and became a salesman in a grocery store in Cape Town. He participated in World War II in northern and eastern Africa and Italy. After the war he married Ann.

Louis Washkansky was an active athlete - he was swimming, lifting weights and playing football, but over time his health deteriorated. He was diabetic and suffered from an incurable heart disease (he had three heart attacks, the last of which resulted in heart failure). On December 3, 1967, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, a team of doctors led by Professor Christopher Barnard made his first heart transplant in the history, and the recipient was Washkansky. The donor was Denise Darvall, a 27-year-old banking official from Cape Town, who died in a car accident the same day. The transplant was successful, however, Washkansky had a weakened immune system (due to an immunosuppressant session for fear of graft rejection) and died of pneumonia on December 21. His grandson, Dale Washkansky, is a South African artist-photographer.

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