Surgeons at Yashoda Hospitals on Friday said they had successfully conducted a heart transplant operation on a 39-year-old businessman.
Thanks to State-run organ donation programme Jeevandan, Dasari Srinivasa Rao received a donor heart from a 42-year-old brain dead patient.
On October 28, the hospital surgeons took up the transplant in a marathon surgery that lasted eight hours.
Three days after the surgery, Mr. Srinivasa Rao, a native of Tenali, was shifted to the hospital ICU, and discharged in another fortnight.
“We evaluated Mr.Srinivas Rao in August, and kept him in the organ donor waiting list. It was Jeevandan that found a suitable donor for the patient. After the surgery, we kept him on immunosuppressive drugs and he recovered very well with no complications,” said heart transplant surgeon A.G.K. Gokhale.
Jeevandan programme in-charge G. Swarnalatha said this was the third successful heart transplant performed under the programme.
“So far, 383 organs have been donated by 83 donors. The kidneys, liver, eyes, heart and heart-valves of brain-dead patients have given a new lease of life for many,” Dr. Swarnalatha said.
The team of doctors was headed by Dr. Gokhale and included J. Viswanath, V. Bharadwaj, Ravi Kiran (cardiothoracic surgeons) and Ravi Sankar, K. Sudhakar and Madhav (anaesthetists). It was the ninth successful heart transplant by the team.
