Apollo performs first heart transplant from Hyd facility

Apollo Hospitals on Monday said it had performed the first heart transplant surgery from its facility in Hyderabad on a 19-year old student, Veer Anjaneyulu, suffering with dilated cardiomyopathy. The case related to end-stage heart failure leading to depression of heart muscle. The operation was performed on November 11 by Dr Vijay Dixit, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, Apollo Hospitals. Dilated cardiomyopathy was very common in India and can be treated through drugs.

However, in cases where it can't be cured it leads to end-stage failure which would be dealt only through a heart transplant. In this particular case, the hospital was supported by Jeevandan Project of the Andhra Pradesh government, and the city's traffic Police in successfully harvesting the donor heart and transporting it to the hospital.