Would it be possible to do a successful heart and brain transplant? If it is, who was the first person to have a

Question: Would it be possible to do a successful heart and brain transplant? If it is, who was the first person to have a successful heart/brain transplant and how long did they live for?
- Keywords:
  body,
  human,
  medicine,
  surgery,
  technology
Asked by Giftie_Star to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 11 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Emma3.
- Kate Dobson answered on 11 Nov 2014:
  
  I was never very good at biology, but I suspect that we are a very long way from getting to a brain transplant, but I’ve not done biology since GSCE so I might be wrong.
- Lisa Simmons answered on 11 Nov 2014:
  
  I’m like Kate, I’ve not done biology for a long time. I think that we are a long way off from doing brain transplants.

Emma3 commented on 13 Nov 2014:

Thank you, anyway! Sure it will be possible in a while!!

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Question: Would it be possible to do a successful heart and brain transplant? If it is, who was the first person to have a successful heart/brain transplant and how long did they live for?