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Jean-Paul Cachera

Jean-Paul Cachera, born December 8, 1931 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (Boulogne-Billancourt), died October 25, 1993 in Meudon, was a French surgeon, who specialised in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. He is best known for having performed the first successful heart transplant in Europe in 1968.

Jean-Paul Cachera was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine in 1930. A hospital surgeon in 1966, first at the Broussais Hospital, then at Henri Mondor University Hospital, he was a specialist in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. He is known to have achieved, in 1968, one of the first cardiac transplants in Europe, a few months after that carried out by Professor Barnard in South Africa, and a few days after that carried out by Professor Cabrol4: April 27, 1968 for the operation led by Professor Cabrol at La Pitié in Paris, and May 12 for the operation led by Professors Cachera and Dubost, on the Reverend Father Boulogne. The patient operated on April 27 has survived for only 3 days, and Reverend Father Boulogne survived 17 months, the operation of May 12 is considered by some as the first successful transplant in Europe. This successful heart transplant had been preceded by more than two hundred experimental grafts in animals, and multiple work on pre- and post-operative transplantation. Professor Jean-Paul Cachera had also directed, four months earlier, in January 1968, a delegation of French surgeons who had traveled to Cape Town in the service of Professor Barnard6.

In addition to his experimental work on heart transplants, he is also known for his groundbreaking research on pre- and post-operative transplant treatments, as well as artificial hearts. He practiced as a hospital practitioner at the Broussais Hospital (Paris) and the Henri-Mondor Hospital in Créteil (Val-de-Marne) where he was head of department7.

In a December 17, 1982, article in The World, Cachera criticizes the intervention of Salt Lake City, the implantation of an artificial heart: "Whatever the final duration of human experimentation currently underway in Sait Lake City, The programmed and duly televised agony of a robot man chained to an impalpous machine that devours him day after day does not seem to make enough noise in the world. What are the prudential medical ethics committees doing in the United States? What do you think about how painstaking the Food and Drug Administration? The general silence does not conceal only approval, let us be sure, but also, to a large extent, the amazement embarrassed by the enormity of the surreal spectacle and the anti-medicine lesson given to the whole world. ". His book Coronary Heart Disease won the Vermeil Medal of the Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 19868. There is a Jean-Paul Cachera court in Bussy-Saint-Georges (Seine-et-Marne).