When Christiaan Barnard transplanted Denise Darvall's heart into Louis Washkansky's chest on the night of December 3, 1967, he wasn't even sure he had performed the first heart transplant in the world. Barnard, a surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa, thought his American rivals had beaten him to it after ten years of preparatory work. However it wasn't the Americans, but this South African surgeon who achieved immortality and afterwards lived off his moment of fame. And today? Only 388 heart transplants were performed in Germany in 2006 because too few donor hearts are available.
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