The dentist Dr Phillip Blaiberg died in Cape Town after living 19 months and 15 days following a successful heart transplant operation by Dr. Chris Barnard in January, 1968. Blaiberg, the longest-surviving heart transplant patient up to that time, was Barnard's second patient after he had performed the first operation on Louis Washkansky in 1967.
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17 August 1969
Dr Phillip Blaiberg dies in Cape Town
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
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