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Sir Terence English, who led UK's first successful heart transplant operation, dies aged 93
Sir Terence English ended a decade-long UK heart transplant moratorium with a 1979 operation that extended patient survival to five years, advancing British transplant surgery.
- Sir Terence English, the pioneering surgeon, died aged 93 on Sunday at his Iffley, Oxford home; he led the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979.
- After a decade-long pause on UK heart transplants following three failed UK transplant attempts in the late 1960s, Sir Terence English studied the California transplant programme and brought expertise back to Cambridge.
- The August 1979 operation treated Keith Castle, a 52-year-old builder at Papworth Everard, despite smoking and vascular issues, and he lived for five years after the transplant.
- Royal Papworth Hospital credited Sir Terence with building an international reputation for transplantation after Mr Castle's survival reopened heart transplants and he performed Europe's first heart-lung combined transplant in 1984, later knighted in 1991.
- Family members recalled his medical and humanitarian work, with Mary saying, 'He was a noted humanitarian who devoted his services to surgical support for doctors in Pakistan and Gaza over the years,' and he leaves behind his wife Judith, four children, and eight grandchildren.
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