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heart transplant

surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease in which a new heart is implanted
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heart transplant

Summary

heart transplant is a surgical procedure type[1]. It draws 897 Wikipedia views per month (surgical_procedure_type category, ranking #2 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • heart transplant's instance of is recorded as surgical procedure type[3].
  • heart transplant is a type of organ transplantation[4].
  • heart transplant's Commons category is recorded as Heart transplantation[5].
  • heart transplant's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+467'}[6].
  • heart transplant's health specialty is recorded as cardiology[7].
  • heart transplant's significant person is recorded as Vladimir Demikhov[8].
  • heart transplant's significant person is recorded as James Hardy[9].
  • heart transplant's significant person is recorded as Christiaan Barnard[10].
  • heart transplant's significant person is recorded as Carlo Marcelletti[11].
  • heart transplant's class of object is recorded as heart[12].

Body

Definition and Type

heart transplant's instance of is recorded as surgical procedure type[3]. It is a type of organ transplantation[4].

Why It Matters

heart transplant draws 897 Wikipedia views per month (surgical_procedure_type category, ranking #2 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

cardiology Christiaan Barnard Salvador Sobral

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . presse.agence-biomedecine.fr. Retrieved . presse.agence-biomedecine.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Class of object(s) of occurrence → heart
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → organ transplantation
    Instance of → surgical procedure type
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 26451, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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