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• 16 April, 2015
  Doctors in Chennai hospital perform heart and double lung transplant

  A team of surgeons at a hospital in Chennai have successfully performed a combined heart and double lung transplant on the oldest recorded recipient in India.  The 67-year-old patient, Hanifa, a businessman from Kerala, was diagnosed with end stage lung disease and heart failure last year. 

  A few months ago, doctors at Apollo Hospitals performed a multi-organ transplant and gave him a new lease of life.

  Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr T Sunder, who was also part of the medical team, said a combined heart lung transplant was very rare as it is a complex procedure. 

  
  "Only 3,400 such transplants have been done worldwide so far and it is tricky to attempt it in elderly people. In Apollo, we have done three such transplants in people above 50 years and two of them have survived," said the doctor. 
  
  "The surgery which costs Rs 7.5 crore in foreign countries can be completed with only Rs 30 lakh in India," he added. 

  
  

  
  
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