The first heart transplant in history

this Picture taken in 1987, after a 23-hour heart transplant in Poland in the picture shows the patient with the heart implanted, extended to the operating table, the connector of several links ..
The doctor who performed the operation sits next to him in a catalytic, his eyes fixed to one corner watching her with interest ... where the pulse monitor is located to monitor the patient's condition after the operation ..
(I did not let him lose sight of me for a moment, and I never turned my back on him). Zbigniew Religa
In the other corner of the picture, one of his assistants noticed that he was overwhelmed by fatigue.
This photo has been selected as one of the top 100 images in the history of National Geographic.
The other patient image survives, passes the time and dies and the patient lives
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