08 June,2017 10:40 AM IST | | Agencies
A team of doctors at a private hospital successfully completed a heart transplant on a 62-year-old man from suburban Bandra with the harvested organ being channelled through a 30-km green corridor in Mumbai
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A team of doctors at a private hospital successfully completed a heart transplant on a 62-year-old man from suburban Bandra with the harvested organ being channelled through a 30-km green corridor in Mumbai.
According to sources in the hospital, the transplant was conducted on Monday after the cadaveric organ was harvested from a 57-year-old man, who was declared brain dead at the Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Girgaon.
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The sexagenarian was suffering from a fatal condition called Dilated Cardiomyopathy and was put on the wait list for over three weeks.
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The organ was transported out of the donor hospital in Girgaon, South Mumbai at 9.59 am and covered a distance of 30-km in 26 minutes before reaching Fortis Hospital, Mulund at 10.25 am, the hospital said in a press note.
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Head of cardiac transplant team at the Fortis Hospital, Dr Anvay Mulay, said the recipient is now stable and under constant observation for the next 48-72 hours.
26 min
Time the heart was in transit to cover 30 kms
57 yrs
Age of the man from whom it was harvested
