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Groote Schuur Hospital was placed centre stage in the worlds spotlight when Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant. Cooley performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States in May 1968 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. 24 Pictures Of The Controversial First Heart Transplant In Poland Bruce Reitz led the team at Stanford Medical Center that performed the worlds first successful heart-lung transplant on March 9 1981. When was the first successful heart transplant . The worlds first human-to-human heart transplant was carried out on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town on 3 December 1967 led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard. Stanford cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. The procedure on a 45-year-old newspaper executive named Mary Gohlke solidified Stanfords reputation as a. A bone from a cadaver was used for the transplantation and the wow factor is its success itself because with the rudimental techniques that had