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A Buckinghamshire man is thought to have become the UK's longest surviving heart transplant patient.
John McCafferty, 70, from Newport Pagnell, was given five years to live when he had his operation in 1982 at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
It held a celebration earlier to mark the occasion and the success of the transplant programme as a whole.
"I am astounded and slightly shocked that I have managed to get as far as I have," he said.
Mr McCafferty had his operation on 20 October 1982, the 41st time doctors had ever performed it. He said all the 40 people before him, "his markers", were now dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20256316
John McCafferty, 70, from Newport Pagnell, was given five years to live when he had his operation in 1982 at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
It held a celebration earlier to mark the occasion and the success of the transplant programme as a whole.
"I am astounded and slightly shocked that I have managed to get as far as I have," he said.
Mr McCafferty had his operation on 20 October 1982, the 41st time doctors had ever performed it. He said all the 40 people before him, "his markers", were now dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20256316