This Day in Texas History: First Heart Transplanted in Houston

May 3, 2013

This Day in Texas History: First Heart Transplanted in Houston May 03, 1968 On this day in 1968, surgeon Denton Cooley and his associates at Houston’s St. Luke’s Hospital performed the first heart transplant in the United States. The patient, Everett Thomas, lived for 204 days with the heart donated from a fifteen-year-old girl. Texas…
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