On this day, 38 years ago, May 11, 1987 (April 14, 1987, the world's longest-living heart replacement passed away. On May 11, 1987, a man named Emmanuel Viteria in Marseille, France died after living happily for 18 years after undergoing a heart transplant, setting the world's longest living record for a heart transplant. According to the hospital's doctor told reporters, 67-year-old Vitria died two weeks after being admitted to the hospital due to ventricular artery dilatation, but his admission to hospital was not related to a heart replacement. He received the heart of a 20-year-old young man who died in a car accident at the end of November 1968. Since then, he has been smoking, drinking and overeating despite the doctor's advice. In 1981, he broke his arms and legs, but his transplanted heart withstood the severe test of surgery and was discharged from the hospital in just 42 days. Christian Barnard, a South African doctor who pioneered the world's first heart surgery in 1967, said that keeping Riya alive for 18 years is an inspiring and important support for heart transplants and other organ transplants.