Doctor Christian Barnard performed the first successful transplant of which human organ?
Correct answer: Heart
SUNSHINE5837
when my son died at 25 donating donating his organs really meant a lot and got me through my grieving. Knowing that he helped others to live.
Player #91993
QuackingTank2311, you really have no understanding of transplants. Organ donors give a secind chance to many people. Thank you to every family that has allowed another to live.
Player #3671151
Player #91993, I am a Heart Transplant recipient it's been twenty-three years.
Player #4611931
Player #4531063 Um y, My son received a transplant six years ago He has been in touch with the mother of the donor heart a ever since Each year on donors birthday and so on This has helped a lot
Newcomer4626
The first successful heart transplant was administered by Hamilton Naki. Dr. Christaan Bernard had taken the credit because Hamilton Naki was a black man in apartheid era in South Africa
Trader KR=10
A bit more info would have been nice.
Louis Washkansky lived for 18 days with his new hart.
Grumpy Old Man
Keek, The transplant was a success but he died 18 days later from double pneumonia.
Player #3906185
ThemightyVictoria, Well Victoria the truth is that your learning about many things that an eight year old isn't expected tokm know. so keep playing the game and never be discouraged by an incorrect answer. you're still learning and that's what is important oh buy the way many of older people did not get the answer right. keep asking questions and learning
jennycat Of Lionvale
I have been an organ donor since I was old enough to do so and it isn’t hope that if something were to happen to me I would be able to help another person to have a second chance at living a longer life . People may think it’s odd to give away their body parts after death but for me it’s a form of transcendence to have a part of me love on after my mortal body would normally return to the earth.
Player #16244874
Newcomer4626, correction...Naki was a SELF-TAUGHT surgeon yet with such respective skill that he was chosen by Christaan N. Barnard to secretly ASSIST. Sadly and shamefully his contribution was kept secret until the apartheid was over in 1991 (shameful!)
Naki left school when he was a very young 14 years old. He was hired as a gardener at University of Cape town, S. Africa. While there, he covertly observed surgeries from which he was able to teach himself th
marimargo
B*, Not totally unrelated. The heart must be strong enough to help pump fluid out of the lungs. If it isn't, the fluid stays in the lungs, bacteria has a wonderful environment to grow (warm, moisture, dark) and that's how pneumonia thrives. ĺ
I'm not saying that was the case here, but a distinct possibility
marimargo
Cleofus , An Afro-American is a person of African decent who lives in Amerca. Hamilton Naki lived in South Africa.
marimargo
So many people take medical discoveries for granted. This explains the intricacies of the steps involved in the advances in medicine.
Nanny
SUNSHINE5837, so sorry for your loss.
suzstrong005
IndyKate, God Bless your precious Dad xx
suzstrong005
Mazzie, Bless you & all donor families who give of their precious loved ones so others can thrive xxx
suzstrong005
Rocky , long may you live in wellness
suzstrong005
Newcomer4626, something I never knew. I must research this Thanks will look up Mr Hamilton Naki
suzstrong005
Player #3671151, Long may you continue to be well x
suzstrong005
SUNSHINE5837, God bless you 🙏
ICE CREAM
Newcomer4626, Thank you, Newcomer 4626! I'm so glad you know your history. Your comment is a breath of fresh air.
Cj
My 15 year old daughter told me two weeks before God took her home. “Mommy, if anything ever happens to me, I want to donate my organs “. Two weeks later, she had a brain bleed. She was granted her last wish and for that I am grateful.
Kaliman
Who will be the first person to transplant a brain 🧠 it’s impossible right 🤔🤔🙏
JJ
Newcomer4626, a bit if black history not acknowledged apparently!
Lisette
Newcomer4626, very interesting!
stella
stella Cristina Ferreira de Araújo
Rosi
SUNSHINE5837, that was remarkable, beautiful gesture meanwhile you were grieving🙏🏻
Mah
Newcomer4626, there is (or was) a controversy about his being part of Dr. Bernard’s team, but not about who made the transplant. At best, he was an assistant which doesn’t seem to be so. I know Wikipedia is not the most reliable source of information but you can find there links to the sources of this dispute.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Naki
Rocky
SUNSHINE5837, Ty, I am a liver transplant patient, surviving 7 years. Your gift of life is truly appreciated 😊🙏🏻
Ducky
Newcomer4626, while Hamilton Naki should have been given the opportunity and means (correct education) to do so though there is ample evidence that he did not directly participate in the first human heart transplant.
Guenevere
I got correct it is heart
Catherine
SUNSHINE5837, I’m so very sorry for your loss. Donating is such a wonderful gift however.
Denise
the surgical nurse was from Tralee County Kerry n a friend of my dad's!!!!!
Cleofus
Dr. Hamilton Naki first heart transplant is an Afro-American man.
Cleofus
The first transplant was performed by a
junjun
no Milvin the Marvelous
junjun
my mom died from 1999
lovely
Unfair to Dr. Naki that was a black man that the world couldn't and wouldn't accept his intelligence..
Arinjay
This question was really hard for me. Don't know how😅
B*
Luvlee26, Please, let's not confuse heart surgery with heart transplant; it's discombobulated enough as it is, ty.