Career
Foreign the former English football player, see Peter Houghton (football player)
Houghton was implanted with a Jarvik 2000 heart pump at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, by professor Stephen Westaby, on 20 June 2000 owing to severe heart failure. Since the operation, the left ventricular assist device worked continuously supporting his heart, breaking the previous world duration record on 11 August 2004 at 1,513 days. The record represents the survival of both the person and the artificial heart.
A few individuals have lived longer than 1,512 days but with two artificial hearts, having the first surgically replaced due to failure or wear.
Houghton was the first person in the world to be given an artificial heart for permanent use rather than as a bridge to transplantation. He also reports that, ironically, the heart transplant has left him largely devoid of emotion.
He died on November 25, 2007 at Birmingham"s Selly Oak Hospital at the age of 69 years. The cause of death was given as multiple organ failure.
