MEDICAL MARVELS
Q1. When and Who performed the first kidney transplantation?
Dr.R.H.Lawler - USA - 1950 - at Harvard Medical School.
Q2. When was the first kidney transplantation done in India?
At Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu in 1971. The patient was one Mr. Shanmugam.
Q3. When was the first heart transplantation done, by whom, on whom and from whom?
3.12.1967 - by Dr. Christian Neething Barnard - South Africa - On Louis Washkansky - From Miss Denise Ann Darwall.
Q4. Who was the longest surviving heart transplant?
Emmanuel Vitra, France - Heart transplanted on 28th November 1968 and lived upto 1982.
Q5. Who was the first Indian to have heart transplantation?
Mr. Madhav Rao in 1985 at Pennyslavania, USA.
Q6. When was the first open heart surgery performed in India?
1898 - at Christian Medical College, Vellore by Dr.N.Gopinath and Dr.P.H.Bets on a 12 year old girl - Beulah
Q7. When and by whom, the first heart transplantation was done in India?
03.08.1984 by Dr. P.Venugopal at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Q8. When and by whom, a test tube baby was developed?
In 1970 by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe in UK.
Q9. Who was the first test tube baby born in the world?
Louise Joy Brown born to Lesley Brown, Lancashire, UK, - 25.07.1978 Oldham Hospital.
Q10. Who developed the first test tube baby in India? When and to whom the test tube baby was born?
Dr. Indira Hinduja of KEM Hospital, India on 6.8.1986 to Mani Chawla. The child's name was Harsha.
Q11. When was the first Corneal (eye) transplant was conducted in India?
September 2007 - Agarwal Eye Hospital, Chennai - a laser surgery.
Q12. When was the first Appendectormy performed?
4.1.1885, by Dr. William Grant on Mary Gartside.
Q13. Who performed the first cornea transplantation?
Dr.Elrchwig
Q14. Who was the first to receive an artificial heart?
Barney Clarke.
Q15. A unique unparalled, probably the rarest of medical marvel record is held by Jean Sauborne a 20 years old (then) woman of Canada.What is it?
In 1977, her heart developed sudden pains and completely ceased to function. A team of 26 doctors of Winniepeg Medical Centre, Manitoba, Canada, through predomial dialysis method and clinically fighting for 8 Hrs and 32 Mts, made her heart to function again and saved her. The only one of its kind to happen in medical history.
Q16. Who was the first to get pace maker implanted and what is unique about him?
Arne Larsson of USA had pace make implantation in 1958. During his life time he had 26 such implantations.
