A 22km ‘green corridor’ was on Friday created between Delhi and Noida to transport a live heart, which was harvested from an ex-serviceman and transplanted on a 61-year-old man suffering from ischemic cardiomyopathy.
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A team of surgeons conducted Mumbai’s 34th heart transplant onto a 46-year-old woman, an official said on Wednesday.
The donor 44-year-old woman was admitted to the Jaslok Hospital in south Mumbai and was declared brain dead following intracerebral bleeding and brain stem haemorrhage. The heart was harvested, a Green Corridor was laid out by the Traffic Department and the organ was rushed from Jaslok Hospital to Fortis Hospital, Mulund, a distance of 28 km covered in 24 minutes.
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“The patient suffered from ischemic heart disease (condition that affects the supply of blood to the heart) and already had a stent procedure surgery. The heart was harvested from the 30-year-old man in Indore who had died in a road accident.”
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Marnie Brace, a 20-weeks-old baby born to Nick and Amy Brace in the UK, is in need of a heart transplant. She suffers from Noonan’s Syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which essentially means that her heart needs to work extra heard to carry out basic functions including feeding.
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Lack of infrastructure, logistical constraints, and myths and stigma attached to organ donation are the major hurdles keeping the rate of heart transplant in India at an “abysmal low” vis-a-vis in the west, according to health experts.
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