Grandpa's Heart Transplant Patient Record Hold the Oldest Living

Bucks , After undergoing organ transplant surgery , the disease may be cured . However the body can still reject the new organ is ' embedded ' in it . But it is different with this grandfather . He managed to hold the record for patients living with heart grafts longest in the world .
John McCafferty received a new heart on October 20, 1982 in a heart transplant operation at Harefield Hospital , Middlesex UK are handled directly by a leading heart surgeon , Sir Magdi Yacoub .
At the age of 39 years , John was diagnosed with ' dilated cardiomyopathy ' , one of the common causes of heart failure . This will result in blisters on the wall of the heart , including heart muscle damage to the heart becomes weak once swollen and eventually unable to pump blood efficiently .
At the same time John was told he might only survive for five years after the heart transplant surgery . But who would have thought , the man who is now the 71-year -old even managed to survive up to 30 years and 11 months and 10 days with the cangkokannya heart .
He even beat the previous record held by an American named Tony Huesman WN since Tony died in 2009 . John also received a certificate from Guinness World Records in the hospital where he was treated recently .
" The thought that I would survive until their 70s never crossed my mind . , But here I am now , " said the man from Newport Pagnell , Bucks the UK .
" For the record I would like the world to be an inspiration for anyone who is waiting for a donor heart and the people who are lucky to get a transplant like me , " he said as quoted from the Telegraph , Wednesday ( 12/03/2014 ) .
What 's the secret? It turns out that the post- transplant , John always obey the doctor's advice and continued to maintain his fitness , including by traveling around the UK and Europe to take part in the Transplant Games 11 .
"Equally important , I want to promote organ donation at every opportunity . Because I always feel I owe it to the donor and to the family that I never met . They have given me life , and this would not have happened without their giving , " he said .
Andre Simon , director of the transplant program of the Royal Brampton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust said , " John truly extraordinary achievement and shows what can be obtained from the transplant . "
Simon also agreed when John 's achievements can not be separated from the combination of the old man 's determination to continue to adopt a healthier lifestyle and quality of health care in the UK is very good , although Simon did not deny the existence of an element of luck in this regard .