Adrian Kantrowitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adrian Kantrowitz

American cardiac surgeon

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 14-Nov-2008

Profession: surgeon, university teacher, military physician, cardiac surgeon

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt (after Christiaan Barnard) at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967.
The infant lived for only six hours.
At a press conference afterwards, Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure.Kantrowitz also invented the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), a left ventricular assist device (L-VAD), and an early version of the implantable pacemaker.