Derrick Morris

For other people named Derek Morris, see Derek Morris (disambiguation).

Derrick Morris (c.1930 – 30 July 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient.[1]

Morris, a docker from Swansea, had suffered a heart attack in 1975, and received his new heart in an operation carried out by Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in 1980. The donor was a 26-year-old woman who had been killed in a car crash. Morris was given only a 15% chance of survival, and was told to "live six months at a time",[2] but was eventually able to return to work at the docks. He was the eleventh person in the UK to receive a heart transplant, and by the 20th anniversary of his operation, he already held the European record.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Record survivor of heart transplant dies" The Telegraph, 2 August 2005. Accessed 21 February 2013
  2. ↑ Heartzine.com "Longest-surviving Heart Transplant Patient Has Died", 4 August 2005. Accessed 21 February 2013
  3. ↑ BBC News Wales - "Transplant man celebrates 20th anniversary". 10 February 2000. Accessed 21 February 2013
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