THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANT.


REITZ, BRUCE; and NORMAN SHUMWAY. Archive of 9 items relating to heart lung transplantation, most signed. Including: 1) Heart and lung transplantation: Autotransplantation and allotransplantation in primates with extended survival, 1980, offprint, SIGNED BY REITZ AND SHUMWAY; 2) Simplified method for heart and lung transplantation. 1981, offprint. SIGNED BY REITZ; 3) Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease. 1982, pp. 557-564, IN: New England Journal of Medicine (issue of March 11, 1982, the publisher's reprint of the entire text section in original wrappers); 4) Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease. 1982, offprint. SIGNED BY SHUMWAY; 5) Diagnosis and treatment of allograft rejection in heart-lung transplant recipients. 1983, offprint. SIGNED BY REITZ AND SHUMWAY; 6) Physiologic aspects of human heart-lung transplantation. 1984, offprint. SIGNED BY REITZ AND SHUMWAY; 7) Ruth Ellen Lahde [sole author], Heart-lung transplant: A first. 1981, offprint. SIGNED BY REITZ AND SHUMWAY. This article published in a nursing journal by an operating room nurse at Stanford documents (with text and photographs) the first human heart-lung transplant. It was published before the formal report that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine five months later; 8) A 7 x 9 inch glossy black and white newswire telephoto (11/22/83) of Reitz in profile standing in front of a poster relating to heart-lung transplantation; 9) Mary Gohlke and Max Jennings. I'll Take Tomorrow: The Story of a Courageous Woman Who Dared to Subject Herself to a Medical Experiment: The First Successful Heart-Lung Transplant. New York 1984, dw. First edition.Includes the landmark article "Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease" (1982), both as it appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the rare offprint, signed by Shumway, cited as Garrison-Morton 10659: "First successful heart-lung transplant." Stanford University cardiac surgeons Bruce Reitz and Norman Shumway "performed the first successful heart-lung transplant [on March 9, 1981] after nearly four years testing in primates. Encouraged by the animal work, Reitz and his team looked for potential recipients. Mary Gohlke, the first patient, contacted Reitz after reading a newspaper account of his work. According to Reitz, she served as an inspiration for many subsequent patients facing the ordeal of heart-lung or lung transplantation." Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (Oxford 1997) 277, 640-646 (reprinting item 3). With a PDF printout of Reitz, "The first successful combined heart-lung transplant" (2011, 3 pp).