Doctors harvested the heart of 29-year-old accident victim in Madurai and transplanted it into a 48-year-old patient with cardiomyopathy in Chennai.
Dr.K.M.Cherian, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Lifeline Hospital said, “His condition was fast deteriorating. He was put on an intra-aortic balloon pump, a device used to increase coronary perfusion and improve the pumping capacity of the heart, but he was an urgent candidate. When the heart became available, we flew to Madurai on a morning flight, harvested the organ and brought it back late afternoon. The transplant has been successfully completed and the patient is doing well,” he said.
Source-Medindia
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