Biggest day in medical history: 61-year-old man undergoes world's first heart transplant

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Navi Mumbai, dt. 2 December 2023, Saturday

Every day has a history attached to it. 2 December 1982 is considered a big day in medical history. On this day, for the first time in the world, a patient underwent a heart transplant.

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American dentist Dr. Bernie Clarke was suffering from a serious heart disease, so he had an artificial heart implanted on December 2, 1982. Dr. Clark was suffering from heart disease. Even the doctor had given up. But that's when Dr. Utah University. William C. Dr. Devris' team Clark had a heart transplant. The operation lasted seven and a half hours.

In this operation which lasted seven and a half hours

The operation was successful. After the operation Dr. Clark shook hands and said he was fine. After the operation, Dr. Clark's heart was beating 116 times per minute, compared to a normal heart rate of 65 to 80 times. Dr. The artificial heart Clark was fitted with was named Jarvik-7, which Dr. Created by Robert Jarvik. The artificial heart was bigger than a human heart, but it weighed the same as a human heart, he said.

A few days after the successful operation, Dr. Clark started having bleeding problems. After receiving the artificial heart, Dr. Clark could live only 112 days. He died on 23 March 1983.