Tony Huesman, Longest Survivor With Transplanted Heart, Dies At 51

Tony Huesman, who survived with a single transplanted heart longer than any other transplant patient, died Aug. 9 at his home in Washington Township, Ohio. Huesman received his heart in August 1978 at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, one of the early beneficiaries of the hospital's heart transplant program. He died of complications from cancer, said his wife, Carol Huesman. He was 51. "His heart held up to the end," she said.