"Sir Terence English had to fight for the right to carry out the surgery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge in 1979, after resistance from the public and the government. The operation that paved the way to future transplants took place in August that year on 52-year-old Keith Castle, who lived for more than five years afterwards. Sir Terence's family said he died on Sunday at his home in Iffley in Oxford, six days after having a stroke."
""Before [Keith Castle's] operation I'd been met with tremendous criticism about heart transplantation, including a letter from the Department for Health at the end of 1978 saying there would be no funding and the moratorium on heart transplantation would be continuing. "I thought 'damn that' and managed to get approval from the Cambridge Area Health Authority - and we went ahead.""
Sir Terence English performed the UK's first successful heart transplant at Papworth Hospital in August 1979 on 52-year-old Keith Castle, who survived more than five years. He faced strong public and government resistance and initially lacked funding and official support. A January 1979 transplant attempt failed when the donor heart retrieval coincided with the recipient's cardiac arrest; the patient died 17 days later. Born in South Africa in October 1932, he studied mining engineering before switching to medicine at Guy's Hospital, London. He married Ann in 1963, had four children, and credited Ann's support for enabling his career.
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