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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 22 > Adrian Kantrowitz was first in U.S. to transplant a heart

Adrian Kantrowitz was first in U.S. to transplant a heart

By Patricia Sullivan / The Bulletin
November 22, 2008

Adrian Kantrowitz, a doctor who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States and developed numerous medical devices that helped save thousands of heart patients, died Friday of complications from congestive heart failure at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann....

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