Heart transplant surgery: Haskell Karp of Skokie, Illinois, after receiving an early artificial heart. Photograph, 1969.

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[1969]
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780412i
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A controversial operation, as the surgeon (Denton A. Cooley) had secretly employed the assistant to a surgeon in another institution (Domingo Liotta, assistant to Michael E. Debakey) to use without permission an experimental artificial heart developed by Liotta and Debakey. The patient died a few days later

Publication/Creation

London : Associated Press, [1969]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; image 18 x 21.5 cm

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Houston, Tex., April 5. (AP) Haskell Karp of Skokie, Illinois, became the first patient to receive the total replacement of a heart by a mechanical device. Operation took place in St Luke's Hospital here Friday (APWirephoto) 1969

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St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Medical Center, 5 April 1969

Reference

Wellcome Collection 780412i

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