title: Technologies of heart transplantation.
abstract: It is now 40 years since the world's first heart transplant was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. It is interesting to assess just how far heart transplantation has come since then.
authors.affiliation: Morgan & Masterson, Brussels, Belgium. peggy@morgan-masterson.com
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009926:Organ Preservation; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement