On October 11, 1983, medical history was made at the University Hospital of Innsbruck: for the first time in Austria, doctors placed a foreign heart in a man. Transplant pioneer Raimund Margreiter remembers every detail, nasty headlines and other groundbreaking achievements.
The procedure took eight hours. The groundbreaking achievement lasts forever. Raimund Margreiter can remember every detail. Together with his colleague Franz Gschnitzer and a small team, he achieved the first heart transplant in Austria on October 11, 1983. “We prepared for the transplant by practicing the procedure on a corpse,” says the now 82-year-old.
Source: Krone
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