Heart transplantation

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1967

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A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart from a recently deceased organ donor and implant it into the patient. The patient's own heart is either removed and replaced with the donor heart or, much less commonly, the recipient's diseased heart is left in place to support the donor heart.

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1. 1899–1902Second Boer War
2. 1904–1908Herero and Nama genocide
3. 1948Apartheid introduced in South Africa
4. 1967Heart transplantationThis page
5. 1994Mandela elected President of South Africa

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