Surgeon Vladimir Demikhov (right) is the head of the Laboratory of Organ Transplant Research at the N.V. Sklifosofsky Institute of Emergency Care. Demikhov conducts an operation to transplant a second dog heart. He is accompanied by surgeon Evgeny Shirokov (left) from the American Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone.
Head of the N.V. Sklifosofsky Laboratory for Organ Transplant Research and Institute of Emergency Care. Vladimir Demikhov (left) conducts an operation to transplant a second dog heart. He is assisted by American physiologist Dr. Robert L. Van Gitters of California (right)