- Who
- Brian Thomson
- What
- 42:100 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- New Zealand (Waikuku beach)
- When
The longest surviving quintuple heart bypass patient is Brian Thomson (New Zealand, b. 6 March 1946) who underwent surgery at Wellington Hospital in Wellington, New Zealand, on 24 April 1980, and as of 11 March 2022 has survived 42 years and 100 days.
Brian underwent quintuple grafts bypass surgery at the age of 34. He had a redo in 1997 with 4 grafts. One of his grafts became blocked and started to backflow creating an aneurysm. This was treated by endovascular coiling; these coils were only ever used to treat brain aneurysms so this manoeuvre was the first to be used somewhere else. This consequently made medical history and was published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery,
Brian later developed another aneurysm which was also successfully treated. This was very unusual and not expected to occur, so it made another writeup this time in the Wiley Online Library, Internal Medical Journal.
