Russian Boy, 4, Undergoes Complex Bilateral Lung Transplant In Tamil Nadu
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The Russian boy is the youngest to successfully undergo the lung transplant in India and one of the youngest in Asia, city-based MGM Healthcare claimed.
A four-year-old boy from Russia, on ventilator for three years, has successfully undergone a complex bilateral lung transplant, the hospital which treated him said on Wednesday. He is the youngest to successfully undergo the lung transplant in India and one of the youngest in Asia, city-based MGM Healthcare claimed. The boy was diagnosed with fibrosing alveolitis at the tender age of two months and was put on a ventilator as his oxygen saturation was extremely low. "He underwent tracheostomy when he was six months old in Russia and was airlifted to our unit in Chennai in 2018 for further management and a possible lung transplant referred by the doctors in Russia," said Dr K R Balakrishnan, chairman & director of Cardiac Sciences and Director of the Heart and Lung Transplant Programme, MGM Healthcare.More Related News