The Cape Town declaration on access to cardiac surgery in the developing world

Affiliations

¹ Christiaan Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
³ Chain of Hope, Chelsea, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg-Bad Krotzingen, Freiburg, Germany.
⁵ Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁹ Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

Peter Zilla et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018.

. 2018 Sep 1;54(3):407-410.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy272.

¹ Christiaan Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
³ Chain of Hope, Chelsea, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg-Bad Krotzingen, Freiburg, Germany.
⁵ Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁹ Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

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Reply to D. Vervoort.
Zilla P. Zilla P. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 May 1;55(5):1023. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy320. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019. PMID: 30260379 No abstract available.
Global cardiac surgery: a wake-up call.
Vervoort D. Vervoort D. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 May 1;55(5):1022-1023. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy319. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019. PMID: 30260391 No abstract available.