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India’s Youngest Lung Recipient Josephine Swetha Receives Bilateral Lung Transplantation at Fortis Malar Hospital

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 »