When we say “pioneer of cardiac surgery”, we immediately think of Professor Christian Cabrol. It was he who successfully carried out the first heart transplant in Europe in April 1968, just four months after the first “world” transplant performed by the South African doctor Christian Barnard.
It was also Prof. Cabrol who successfully performed the first heart-lung transplant in 1982 and then placed on a patient, for the first time in Europe, a total artificial heart. It was in April 1986, in his department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP).
It is in this same hospital that Professor Christian Cabrol has just died at the age of 91. He died of a long illness, according to those around him.
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