Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular/Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery ISSN: 0102-7638
[email protected] Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular Brasil Stolf, Noedir A. G. History of Heart Transplantation: a Hard and Glorious Journey Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular/Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, vol. 32, núm. 5, 2017, pp. 423-427 Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular São José do Rio Preto, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=398953453015 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative SPECIAL ARTICLE - HISTORIC Braz J Cardiovasc Surg 2017;32(5):423-7 History of Heart Transplantation: a Hard and Glorious Journey Noedir A. G. Stolf1, MD, PhD DOI: 10.21470/1678-9741-2017-0508 INTRODUCTION contractions were seen. Afterward contractions appeared and about an hour after the operation, effective contractions of This year we celebrate 50 years of the first interhuman heart the ventricles began. The transplanted heart beat at the rate of transplantation. So, I believe that it is interesting to review the 88 per minute, while the rate of the normal heart was 100 per most important steps of this glorious journey. minute. A little later tracing was taken. Owing to the fact that Heart transplantation first performed in the course of the operation was made without aseptic technique, coagulation experiments of other nature in the beginning of 20th century, occurred in the cavities of the heart after about two hours, and seen as a speculation for the future in the middle of the same the experiment was interrupted”.