Man With Heart Transplant Record Dies At 52

By: Associated Press | NBC4i.com
Published: August 11, 2009

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DAYTON, Ohio
Tony Huesman, an Ohio man who lived the longest with a single transplanted heart, has died. He was 52.

His wife Carol said Huesman died Sunday night after a battle with cancer. Huesman was attacked by a pneumonia virus when he was 18 and got a heart transplant 31 years ago at Stanford University.

Huesman became the nation's longest surviving person with the same transplanted heart in 2000 upon the second transplant for a Tennessee man who got his first new heart a year before Huesman got his.

Huesman later founded the Huesman Heart Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, and served as its president. The foundation seeks to reduce heart disease by educating children.

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