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Limits RegistryDr Bernd Ullrich of Germany received a donor heart in Bavaria on 18 May 1983 and had lived with it for 40 years 291 days when verified by Guinness World Records on 4 March 2024. His case was published in Clinical Research in Cardiology; Dutchman Bert Janssen (transplanted 1984) held the title shortly before.
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Dr Bernd Ullrich of Germany received a donor heart in Bavaria on 18 May 1983 and had lived with it for 40 years 291 days when verified by Guinness World Records on 4 March 2024. His case was published in Clinical Research in Cardiology; Dutchman Bert Janssen (transplanted 1984) held the title shortly before.
The longest verified survival time of a human heart-transplant recipient living with the same donor heart, as recognised by Guinness World Records (a living record that may continue to grow).
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Limits Registry. LR-LONGEST-SURVIVING-HEART-TRANSPLANT-PATIENT. Longest survival after a heart transplant. 2026.