India, Nov. 12 -- Swiss cardiac surgeon Dr Diana Reser has taken her love for hearts beyond the operating theatre, reclaiming the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of heart-shaped items. Her collection now numbers 3,200, morethan double the 1,560 items that earned American collector Susan West the title in 2024. Reser had first claimed the record in 2010 with 775 pieces, regaining it on November 10. The fascination began while she was studying medicine, when friends, colleagues and patients began giving her heart-shaped presents to nurture her ambition of becoming a heart surgeon. Now a consultant at Zurich's Heart Clinic Hirslanden, Reser became Switzerland's first female cardiac surgeon to receive a titular professorship at the University of Zurich in 2024. Her collection includes jewellery, clothing, artwork, a heart-shaped Rubik's cube and even a piece of the Berlin Wall, and she calls her fascination "heart-itis". The one piece missing from her collection, she jokes, is the Heart of Eternity, a rare blue heart-shaped diamond valued at at least $16 million. htc...