SA cardiologists notch up heart op advance

Technique makes for safer implanting of live-saving ‘pump’

13 December 2020 - 00:00

By sipokazi fokazi AND Sipokazi Fokazi

Fifty-three years after the world’s first heart transplant was done in Cape Town, another cardiac milestone has catapulted SA back into the global medical spotlight.

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