Surgery Details
- Date: December 3, 1967
- Location: Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
- Surgeon: Dr. Christiaan Barnard led a team of 20 surgeons
- Recipient: Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old grocer with chronic heart disease
- Donor: Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman certified brain-dead after a car accident