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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Sam Russell

Sir Terence English: Surgeon who led first UK’s first heart transplant dies aged 93

Sir Terence English by the duck pond at Royal Papworth Hospital - (PA)

Sir Terence English, the surgeon who led the UK’s first successful human heart transplant on 52-year-old builder Keith Castle in 1979, has died aged 93.

The procedure at Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, followed a 10-year moratorium on heart transplantation in the UK after three failed surgeries in the late 1960s.

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