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          Rory Meyers College of Nursing Adrian Kantrowitz (ARTS '40) | Cardiac surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz is best known for inventing the implantable pacemaker..

          Adrian Kantrowitz

          American cardiac surgeon (1918–2008)

          Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt (after Christiaan Barnard)[1] at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967.[2][3] The infant lived for only six hours.

          American cardiac surgeon Dr Adrian Kantrowitz.

        1. American cardiac surgeon Dr Adrian Kantrowitz.
        2. >Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
        3. Rory Meyers College of Nursing Adrian Kantrowitz (ARTS '40) | Cardiac surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz is best known for inventing the implantable pacemaker.
        4. - • Three days after the Cape Town operation, Adrian Kantrowitz performed the second human heart transplant in Brooklyn.
        5. Rory Mullen.

          6. At a press conference afterwards, Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure.[4]

          Kantrowitz also invented the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), a left ventricular assist device (L-VAD), and an early version of the implantable pacemaker.[2]

          In 1981, Kantrowitz became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.[5]

          Early life and education

          Adrian Kantrowitz was born in New York City on October 4, 1918.

          His mother was a costume designer and his father ran a clinic in the Bronx, and his grandparents were from Vermont. Adrian told h