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South African Surgeon Christiaan Neethling Barnard is a hard act to follow. Seven years ago this week, he performed history's first transplantation of a human heart. Last week he staged a surgical spectacular of about the same order: Barnard gave a patient a second heart and left the old one, or most of it, in place. For a while, at least, both hearts were working...
...that the patient's heart was not all of a piece. Of its two heavy-duty pumping chambers, the right ventricle was strong and driving blood efficiently to the lungs; it was the left ventricle, which propels oxygenated blood to the arterial system, that was diseased and failing. Christiaan and his surgeon brother Marius decided that what Taylor needed was an assistant left heart. Then they waited for one to become available...
Like any good skipper, Bruynzeel prepared his 53-ft. ketch Stormy for every contingency. Unable to pack an intensive-cardiac-care unit on board because it was too heavy, he did the next best thing by adding Nurse Diana Goodliffe, 33, to the crew. A member of Dr. Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant team, she came prepared with equipment like an oscilloscope to check the pattern of Bruynzeel's heartbeat and the culinary qualifications to serve as ship's cook. Once at sea, says Bruynzeel, "Diana never forgot to give me my pills six times...
Transplanting human hearts is a family business in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, is famous for performing the world's first one in 1967 as well as seven others since then. Barnard's chief assistant in all of them was his kid brother-quiet, unassuming Dr. Marius Barnard, 44. Now Marius has completed his own first heart transplant, and Patient John Montgomery is progressing "exceptionally well." Off on a South American cruise with his young wife and baby, Brother Chris cabled congratulations: "I couldn't be more proud if I had done the operation...
Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town...