Philip Blaiberg
Philip Blaiberg (born May 24, 1909 in South Africa , † August 17, 1969 in Cape Town ) was a South African dentist.
Blaiberg was the second person to have a heart transplant performed by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The operation happened on January 2, 1968. The donor was the 24-year-old black South African Clive Haupt. Blaiberg lived for 18 months after the heart transplant.
The world's first human heart transplant took place on December 3, 1967; The recipient was Louis Washkansky , the lead surgeon was also Christian Barnard. Furthermore, Adrian Kantrowitz had transplanted a child's heart in New York City shortly after Barnard's first operation; however, the child only survived a few hours.
literature
- Philip Blaiberg: My second heart. (Looking at My Heart, German by Ursula von Wiese). Müller, Rüschlikon-Zurich / Stuttgart / Vienna 1968.
- Eckart Roloff : The journalistic discovery of the patient. A press analysis on medical journalism and the first heart transplants. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0731-7 . (Slightly edited version of the dissertation from 1972, in which Blaiberg is also mentioned several times, plus a detailed foreword and epilogue from 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 926.
- ^ Herzblatt special edition - heart transplantation today
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blaiberg, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African dentist and second person with a heart transplant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Africa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1969 |
| Place of death | Cape Town |