Christiaan Barnard Crossword Puzzle

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