LC control no. | n 85352171 |
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Personal name heading | Kantrowitz, Adrian |
Found in | His Devices and Technology Branch ... 1986: p. 1 (Adrian Kantrowitz) p. 43 (Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Michigan) Google search, 11-23-2005 (b. 1918; performed the first U.S. heart transplant on December 6, 1967 at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.) New York times WWW site, Nov. 19, 2008 (Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz; b. Oct. 4, 1918, New York; d. Friday [Nov. 14, 2008], Ann Arbor, Mich., aged 90; performed the first human heart transplant in the United States in 1967 and pioneered the development of mechanical devices to prolong the life of patients with heart failure) |