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13-yr-old girl Kerala receives life-saving heart transplant after 5-hr surgery
Updated On: 26 July, 2024 12:15 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The young patient had been on a ventilator for two months, confined to the ICU. The breakthrough came when the Kerala State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (K-SOTTO) allocated a donor heart to SCTIMST
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A team of doctors in Kerala performed a five-hour heart transplant operation, giving a new lease of life to a 13-year-old girl suffering from severe cardiomyopathy -- a disease of the heart muscle.
The procedure was carried out at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST). Paediatric heart transplants are rare due to the limited availability of donor hearts and high costs, making such treatment inaccessible to many.
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