defect ectopia cordis, in
which the heart lies outside
the body. Most patients do
not live beyond 48 hr.Youngest recipient
of two donor hearts
In 1992, at the age of 2,
Sophie Parker (UK) had
an operation at Harefield
Hospital in London, UK,
to give her a donor heart
to complement her weak
natural heart. By Mar 1998,
Sophie’s natural heart was
no longer working properly,
so she had a second donor
heart transplant to aid her
first donor heart.Longest time to undergo
kidney dialysis
Muris Mujičić (HRV) had
kidney dialysis (also known
as haemodialysis) for
41 years 112 days in Rijeka,
Croatia, between 15 May
1974 and 4 Sep 2015.
During that time, Muris
also had two unsuccessful
kidney transplants.Most mammograms
performed in 24 hours
Super Farmacia Rebeca and
Servicios Preventivos de
Salud (both PRI) carried out
352 mammograms in 24 hr
in Isabela, Puerto Rico, on
30 Sep 2016.Most blood plasma
donated
As of 11 May 2015, Terry
Price (USA) had donated
894.206 litres (236.2 US gal)
of blood plasma at BioLife
Plasma Services in Denton,
Tex a s , US A.MOST FINGER SNAPS
IN A MINUTE (ONE HAND)
Satoyuki Fujimura (JPN)
performed 296 finger
snaps in 60 sec on the
set of Tantei! Knight
Scoop in Osaka, Japan, on
23 Dec 2016. Satoyuki is
a university student from
Osaka and learned the trick
from his mother when he
was 15 years old.
The most tap-dancing
taps in one minute is
1,163 and was achieved by
Anthony Morigerato (USA)- a professional tap dancer
- at Eleanor’s School of
Dance in Albany, New York,
USA, on 23 Jun 2011.
Longest survival
without a pulse
Julie Mills (UK) was at the
point of death owing to
severe heart failure and
viral myocarditis when,
on 14 Aug 1998, cardiac
surgeons at the John
Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford,
UK, used a non-pulsatile
blood pump (AB180) to
support her for one week.
For three days during that
period, Julie had no pulse.
The device, which was
NEWEST HUMAN ORGAN
The mesentery, which
connects the stomach to
the intestines and holds the
lower digestive system in
place, is the latest structure
in the human body to be classified as an organ, bringing the
total number to 79. Research by Irish surgeon Prof J Calvin
Coffey, FRCSI (above), and D Peter O’Leary, PhD, published
in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology in Nov 2016,
confirmed the mesentery as a discrete piece of tissue that
has its own functions, although further research is required
to identify the precise role that the organ plays.LONGEST-SURVIVING
HEART-TRANSPLANT
PATIENT
John McCafferty (UK,
b. 28 Jul 1942) underwent
an orthotopic cardiac
transplant during the
night of 20–21 Oct 1982
at Harefield Hospital,
Middlesex, UK. He was
told at the time that he
could expect to live for a
further five years or so.
In fact, he survived for a
further 33 years 111 days,
eventually passing away on
9 Feb 2016. John is shown
(above right) with his
surgeon, Sir Magdi Yacoub.SUPERHUMANSMOST PEOPLE TO SIGN UP AS
ORGAN DONORS IN ONE HOUR
On 6 Sep 2016, a total of 6,697 people
registered as organ donors in
Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India. The
event was organized by the Indian
Medical Association Dindigul
district, Rotary International
District 3000 and PSNA College
of Engineering and Technology
(all IND) to highlight the
importance of organ donation
and how it can impact on lives.MOST HEADS SHAVED SIMULTANEOUSLY
On 12 Mar 2016, the Canadian Cancer Society and the
Calgary Fire Department combined forces to shave the
heads of 329 people at the same time at the Fire Training
Academy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The attempt
took place at an event to raise money to fight cancer
and increase awareness about workplace carcinogens.
More than $140,000 (£97,829) was donated.implanted by Consultant
Cardiac Surgeon Stephen
Westaby, was the fourth
one to be used since it was
developed in the USA. This
operation marked the first
case in which the patient
survived the procedure.Longest survival with
heart outside body
Christopher Wall (USA,
b. 19 Aug 1975) is the
longest-lived known survivor
of the congenital birth