Professor John Wallwork led the team of medics who carried out the pioneering surgery in 1984.
Professor John Wallwork, who performed Europe’s first successful heart-lung transplant in April 1984, at a reunion with patients
Around 360 heart-lung transplants have been carried out at the leading cardiothoracic hospital since then. He later led Europe’s first successful heart-lung transplant operation at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire in 1984.“We’d done our homework and I’d done heart-lung transplants myself before in America.”
Theatre scrub nurse Celia Hyde, who was part of the team for Ms Barber’s transplant, said: “It was such a privilege to be there, to actually see what was going on, to see that empty chest and then to hear that the patient was breathing, speaking and things a few days later.The 68-year-old said she moved onto working in transplant outpatients, where she cared for Ms Barber after her operation.
She said she had been struggling to walk, was blue and pale and “basically losing my life” before her operation more than 35 years ago, and has since gone on to enjoy sailing and skydiving.“It just feels like the right moment to say ‘we’ve done some amazing things in the last 40 years’,” she said.
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