Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS (4 October 1922 – 7 July 2014) was a South African-born British thoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of cardiac surgery and led the team that carried out the first heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in 1968. More significantly, he developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for treatment of aortic valve disease. Ross was born in Kimberley, South Africa, on 4 October 1922. He died in London on 7 July 2014.
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4 October 1922 Kimberley, Northern Cape
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Died |
7 July 2014 (aged 91)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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