The world's longest living heart replacement has passed away

According to British media, the longest-lived heart transplant man in the world after living for 31 years has died on August 10 due to cancer, aged 51 years.

Tony Huesman died of a skin cancer. But his wife said: ' he has been very healthy since his heart transplant '.

She added: ' Huesman had suffered from diabetes and cancer, but his heart remained until he breathed his last breath, he really touched so many people. '

Mr. Tony Huesman (Photo: Sciencenet)

Huesman was given a heart transplant after being diagnosed with a heart attack in 1978. He became the world's longest-lived ' heart replacement '.

When he was alive, he was the market manager of a company in Ohio. In 2006 when referring to the moment of near death, he said: ' People can overcome illness, undergo surgery, be returned to a real person and I am a living proof '.

It is known that Huesman's sister, Linda Huesman Lamb, was also diagnosed with a heart attack in 1983, and later underwent heart transplant surgery. But only that she was not as lucky as her older brother, died at the age of 29 in 1991.