Heart transplanted onto a 62-year-old Bandra man

A team of doctors at a private hospital here 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 the city.
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 here.
The sexagenarian was suffering from a fatal condition called Dilated Cardiomyopathy and was put on wait list for over three weeks.
The organ was transported out of the donor hospital in Girgaon, South Mumbai at 09:59 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 issued here.

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.