- Home
- Medical news & Guidelines
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology and CTVS
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstretics-Gynaecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pediatrics-Neonatology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Laboratory Medicine
- Diet
- Nursing
- Paramedical
- Physiotherapy
- Health news
- Fact Check
- Bone Health Fact Check
- Brain Health Fact Check
- Cancer Related Fact Check
- Child Care Fact Check
- Dental and oral health fact check
- Diabetes and metabolic health fact check
- Diet and Nutrition Fact Check
- Eye and ENT Care Fact Check
- Fitness fact check
- Gut health fact check
- Heart health fact check
- Kidney health fact check
- Medical education fact check
- Men's health fact check
- Respiratory fact check
- Skin and hair care fact check
- Vaccine and Immunization fact check
- Women's health fact check
- AYUSH
- State News
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttrakhand
- West Bengal
- Medical Education
- Industry
Aurangabad accident victim gives fresh lease of life through heart transplant
Aurangabad: A 32-year-old man killed in a road accident in Aurangabad gave a new lease of life to a Thane man through a heart transplant made possible by a 'green corridor' here to facilitate the organ's transport in record time.
Besides, other patients will get the deceased man's kidneys and liver.
The dead man's heart was harvested and transported from United Ciigma Hospital in Aurangabad to Mumbai's Fortis Hospital in Mulund -- a distance of 300 km -- in barely 80 minutes.
A commercial flight took off with the harvested heart from Aurangabad for Mumbai and landed here at 7.25 a.m. A stand-by ambulance traversed a specially created green corridor to the Fortis Hospital here within 20 minutes.
A team led by cardiologist Dr Anvay Mulay transplanted the heart into the 38-year-old Thane resident suffering from viral myocarditis and intractable arrhythmia. Mulay said the surgery was successful.
Fortis Hospital Zonal Director S. Narayani said it was the 20th life-saving heart transplant undertaken at the hospital in the past 10 months.