June 04, 2022 7:20 pm
Mohd Fardeen Mansoori, 14 years old teenaged son of an Army Veteran, had complained of breathlessness and fatigue two years ago.
May 13, 2022 6:13 pm
The patient, who suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, received the organ from a 32-year-old who was declared brain dead on Wednesday following an accident.
January 11, 2022 5:51 pm
"If this works properly, it will be a boon for patients with end-stage heart disease," Dr Subhendu Mohanty said
January 11, 2022 7:04 am
While it’s too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
September 28, 2021 9:28 pm
September 29 is World Heart Day. Doctors say there have been very few Covid-related deaths among the 163 patients in the state who have had a heart transplant in the last five years
September 22, 2021 3:46 pm
This is the second heart transplant performed in Pune this year after the first one was done at Sahyadri Hospital, Deccan, said Aarti Gokhale, central coordinator, Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee.
September 27, 2020 12:03 pm
The heart was retrieved from a 22-year-old woman who was admitted to a city-based hospital after suffering a massive brain stroke due to a clot in one of the veins of the brain (carvernous sinus thrombosis).
May 30, 2019 5:17 am
Kolkata resident, Anusha Adhikari, received the heart from a 16-year-old Mumbai boy, who was declared brain dead at Global Hospital in Mumbai following an accident on May 23.
April 08, 2019 7:19 am
Kirpal shared another successful organ transplant story. At Fortis Hospital, Chennai, where Kirpal underwent the heart transplant in October last year, a 21-year-old man who suffered from heart and lung failure was admitted. Kirpal, through her foundation, paid a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the man’s operation.
September 25, 2018 5:53 am
The organ, which was flown in from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh on a chartered plane late on Sunday, was brought to Fortis hospital on EM Bypass through a green corridor at midnight, a senior officer of Kolkata Traffic Police said.