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2nd heart transplant in city in 48 hrs

The transplant surgery was successfully conducted on a 62-year-old male recipient from Navi Mumbai, who had been waitlisted for over a month for the same after suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (end-stage heart disease).

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The city witnessed a second heart transplant being conducted within 48 hours, at Fortis hospital on Thursday.

The doctors at Fortis hospital carried out the state's 15th heart transplant surgery. The transplant became possible after a 50-year-old female patient was declared brain-dead at MGM hospital, Vashi, after collapsing at home and suffering subdural acute hemorrhage, which is usually associated with a traumatic brain injury.

The transplant surgery was successfully conducted on a 62-year-old male recipient from Navi Mumbai, who had been waitlisted for over a month for the same after suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (end-stage heart disease). The transportation of the donor heart was completed in16 minutes, covering 18km.

The female patient was admitted to Fortis hospital in Vashi, where she was declared brain-dead. When her kin expressed their intent to donate her organs, the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), an organisation that coordinates cadaver organ donations, was informed and the patient was shifted to MGM hospital in Vashi, an organ retrieval centre where the female patient's heart and liver were harvested.

The transplant coordination process began on Wednesday night after consent was taken from the relatives of the donor. Dr Anvay Mulay, the head of the cardiac transplant team at Fortis hospital, Mulund, retrieved the heart from the donor.

The police and traffic authorities then swung promptly into action by laying out a 'green corridor' swiftly for a timely transfer of the preserved heart. The heart was moved out of MGM hospital in Vashi at 12.20am and followed a pre-decided route — Thane-Belapur Road-Airoli Junction — to reach Fortis hospital, Mulund at 12.36am. Mulay then conducted the transplant surgery on the recipient.

Mulay said: "It has been very encouraging to see so many people opting to donate the organs of their kin. Such success stories encourage more end-stage cardiac failure patients to come forth and seek aid. The need of the hour is to bring communities together to give a thrust to the cause of organ donation. While we go ahead with our endeavour to save and enrich lives, the boy we lost due to the unavailability of a donor heart a few weeks ago will not be forgotten."

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