Babylon.com search engine posted today, December 3, on its home page a logo, dedicated to the world's first heart transplant. On the logot here is a heart in human hands.

December 3, 1967, Cape Town.Surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the heart of 24-year-old Denise Darvall, who died in a car accident from a brain injury, to 54-year-old Lewis Washkansky, patient suffering from heart failure.Before deciding to human heart transplantation, the doctor repeated the operation on 50 dogs–and none of them survived. Washkansky leaved only18 days after the surgery and died from bilateral pneumonia. These cond timeBarnard transplanted heart to dentist Philip Bleiberg.The patient lived after operation three years. Though the last 19 months according to hi sdaughter he agonized.

The revolutionary methods of Barnard became a history. Now the risk of rejection of another's heart is significantly reduced - mainly due to new drugs.In modern transplantologya heart transplant is a routine operation, the patients survive for more than 10 years. World record for longevity with a transplanted heart holds Tony Huesman- he lived with a transplanted heart for over 31 years and died of skin cancer.The main problem for these patients is the rejection of the transplanted organ by the immune system.