Christiaan Barnard Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. Barnard's brother, also a surgeon, who assisted in the first transplant.
- 5. What Barnard developed in 1974 where the donor heart is added as an auxiliary pump.
- 8. The South African hospital where the first heart transplant was performed.
- 9. The American surgeon who had been experimenting with cardiac transplantation in dogs since the 1950s.
- 11. The first heart transplant patient lived for 18 days before succumbing to this lung infection.
- 12. The surname of the first heart donor, a young woman tragically killed in a car accident.
- 13. The drug that significantly improved transplant outcomes in the 1980s by reducing organ rejection.
- 15. The city in which Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant.
Down
- 1. The controversial anti-aging cream Barnard later endorsed.
- 2. Barnard spent time studying cardiothoracic surgery here, a U.S. state.
- 3. The autoimmune disease affecting Barnard's hands that forced his retirement from surgery.
- 6. The country where Barnard was born and performed the first heart transplant.
- 7. The first successful heart transplant patient's surname.
- 10. A type of machine used to pump and oxygenate blood, developed before Barnard's transplant.
- 14. The month of the first human-to-human heart transplant.