BJCA Past Medical Histories - Sir Magdi Yacoub

Working with the BJCA (the British Junior Cardiologist's Association) we were lucky enough to record an interview with one of the greatest pioneers in cardiology, Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub. He pioneered early valve repairs, with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.