# Magdi Yacoub

> Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is a Coptic Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.

*Egyptian surgeon*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/magdi-yacoub

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** Egypt
- **Born:** 1935-11-16
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 54.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.4 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 12.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 47.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Magdi Yacoub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub)
- [مجدي يعقوب](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8)
- [مجدي يعقوب](https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8)
- [مجدى يعقوب](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8)
- [Magdi Yacoub](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub)
- [Μαγκντί Γιακούμπ](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF_%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BC%CF%80)
- [Magdi Yacoub](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub)
- [مجدی یعقوب](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8)
- [Magdi Yacoub](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub)
- [Magdi Habib Yacoub](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Habib_Yacoub)
- [מגדי יעקוב](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91)
- [മഗ്ദി യാക്കൂബ്](https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D)
- [Magdi Yacoub](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919015)

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