A heart donated by a brain dead man was moved from Nagole to Apollo Hospital in Jubileehills in Hyderabad by way of a green channel. To avoid the traffic the Metro rail was used today.
It is a rare transport and one of its kind. Earlier Ambulances moved on road for the organs transport but it had its own issues. Now the Mero was used as there will be no traffic snarls and it can move with a better speed when compared to the road transport.
Cardiac transplantation is an option for certain patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy or severe left ventricular failure from coronary artery disease that is not amenable to other forms of therapy.
If a cardiac donor is not found for these patients, short-term mortality approaches 10Oo/o in a three-month period [3]. In addition, some potential recipients, including most of the patients described here, are critically ill from end-stage cardiac failure at the time they are seen and require urgent transplantation.
The standard technique for transplantation in such patients involves the procurement of a donor heart within the recipient’s institution and immediate transplantation with a donor-heart ischemia period of an hour or less in most cases .
Such a limited procurement technique necessarily precludes transplantation in many patients, especially with the recent decline in available donors.
The absence of effective heart-support devices at present contribute to the high mortality in potential recipients for whom a suitable donor is not found.
