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What HappenedDr. Daniel Hale Williams is the first to repair a human heart tissue after he was stabbed in the heart in a fight. He was the first to succeed.
Dr. Axel Cappelen is credited performing the first heart surgery.
Dr. Dwight Harken invented a technique to remove shrapnel,an anti-personnel artillery munition, from soldiers hearts.
Dr.Denton Arthur Cooley to implant the first total artificial heart and developed different ways of the heart.
Dr.Christiaan Neethling Barnard performed the worlds first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
Robert Jarvik had an important role in inventing the jarvik-7 which was a artificial heart.
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