A four-year-old boy from Russia ,on a 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 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.
A release from the hospital quoting him said a two year old brain dead donor became available in December 2020 in surat, Gujarat , and the organ was airlifted to chennai.
After the procedure then, the child was kept under observation in ICU care.
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