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First British Heart Transplant

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1968

Donald Ross3 May 1968

National Heart Hospital · Government / Labour Party Government

Ross leads Britain's first heart transplant at the National Heart Hospital, demonstrating the new possibilities and major clinical risks of cardiac transplantation.

Names involved

Donald Ross

Provenance

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