“Victory day!” was the last thing on A four-years-old child has undergone a heart transplant at Narayana Health hospital in Bengaluru heard him say as he was wheeled into surgery to receive his new heart. At just 4 years-old, is the youngest cases of heart transplant in the city. But he knew this one was… Read More »
City doctors performed the first successful autologous bone marrow transplantation at a newly established Center in BHU under the guidance of Dr. Rahul Bhargava, Director of Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplant, FMRI, Gurugram. Bone marrow transplant and stem cell research center at Banaras Hindu University has established has come to functional, the doctors successfully performed… Read More »
Abdul Bashit, an 11-year-old Pakistani citizen who is elder among 3 of his siblings, suffered from severe jaundice soon after birth. He was diagnosed with Criglar Najjar Syndrome. The disease that is seen in 1 in a million babies causes the blood to increase in a dangerous type of bilirubin pigment. During the first two… Read More »
Surgeons at Fortis Malar Hospital performed a double-lung transplant on a 13-year-old –patient Josephine Swetha from Tambaram, Chennai was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, the youngest patient in India to undergo a bilateral lung transplant. She received her new lungs through an expert team led by Dr. K R Balakrishnan, director, cardiac sciences, fortis malar hospital… Read More »