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For about four hours and forty-five minutes, a heart and lungs travelled – from a hospital in Kochi to the airport, on a chartered aircraft to Chennai and then raced through the city – to reach Fortis Malar Hospital in Adyar.
The organs then were transplanted on to a 24-year-old young man from Maharashtra, who is now doing well.
This is reportedly the first inter-State initiative by Kerala in sharing of organs.
According K. R. Balakrishnan, director, Cardiac Sciences, Fortis Malar Hospital, the recipient had come in about six months ago and was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, Eisenmenger Syndrome, a complication resulting from congenital heart defect that causes a hole in the heart increases lung pressure, leading to abnormal blood circulation.
“If he had been treated as a child, the hole could have been closed. But the increased pressure has led to irreversible changes in the lungs, making a heart-lung transplant the only option,” he said.
Maharashtra youth gets heart, lungs from Kochi boy in Chennai - The Hindu
The organs then were transplanted on to a 24-year-old young man from Maharashtra, who is now doing well.
This is reportedly the first inter-State initiative by Kerala in sharing of organs.
According K. R. Balakrishnan, director, Cardiac Sciences, Fortis Malar Hospital, the recipient had come in about six months ago and was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, Eisenmenger Syndrome, a complication resulting from congenital heart defect that causes a hole in the heart increases lung pressure, leading to abnormal blood circulation.
“If he had been treated as a child, the hole could have been closed. But the increased pressure has led to irreversible changes in the lungs, making a heart-lung transplant the only option,” he said.
Maharashtra youth gets heart, lungs from Kochi boy in Chennai - The Hindu
