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The year 1967 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Anthropology Astronomy and space exploration Biology Cartography Mathematics Medicine - Thomas Starzl performs the first successful human liver transplant, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- First use, in a case of myocardial infarction, of the intra-aortic balloon pump invented by Dr Adrian Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur.[5]
- December 3 - Dr Christiaan Barnard and a team including his brother Marius perform the first successful human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on Louis Washkansky, who survives for eighteen days.
- December 6 - Dr Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first pediatric heart transplant, at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, United States, on a 19-day-old infant, who survives for six hours.[6][7]
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