Performs Heart Transplant in New York Hospital -- Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a noted heart surgeon and one of the teachers of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard, today led a team of surgeons in performing the world's 20th human heart transplant operation in New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center on an unidentified male. The donor was Mario Cedena 29, of the Bronx who died of gunshot wound in the head. Mr. Lillehei is shown here in 1957 with a model of a human heart.
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Performs Heart Transplant in New York Hospital -- Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a noted heart surgeon and one of the teachers of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard, today led a team of surgeons in performing the world's 20th human heart transplant operation in New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center on an unidentified male. The donor was Mario Cedena 29, of the Bronx who died of gunshot wound in the head. Mr. Lillehei is shown here in 1957 with a model of a human heart.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1968]

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