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American entrepreneur famous for his race car driving and automotive developments in designing the cult-classic Shelby Cobras and Ford's Shelby Mustang. Carroll Shelby received a heart transplant in 1990, then in 1996, a living donor kidney transplant from his son. Carroll died May 10, 2012, at the age of 89. Heart: 1990; Kidney: 1996
Longest surviving heart transplant recipient 2005 (25 years) Derrick Morris (24 March 1930 – 30 July 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient, living 25 years after the transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub in 1980.
In 1989, Strong carried out the world's first liver transplant from a living donor, which took place from a mother to her son and was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine and the international press. [3] [4] Strong lived in Kuala Lumpur in 2004–2005, where he helped to establish a national liver transplantation program. [2]
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday by becoming the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.
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Liver transplantation is a potential treatment for acute or chronic conditions which cause irreversible and severe ("end-stage") liver dysfunction. [4] Since the procedure carries relatively high risks, is resource-intensive, and requires major life modifications after surgery, it is reserved for dire circumstances.
Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient. “I ...
In 2019, Barnatt created a YouTube channel called Dad, [3] featuring the web series Dad Feels following a character named Dad. Though it is often called an alternate reality game (ARG), [14] Barnatt disowns the term. [15] The series concluded its first season consisting of three acts in December 2020. [16]