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No further attempts at heart transplants were made in India until Panangipalli Venugopal led the first successful heart transplant in India, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi in 1994 and after new laws had been passed relating to "brain death". [9] [10] KEM did not carry out any further heart transplants until 2015 ...
Venugopal pioneered heart transplant surgery in India, having performed the first successful heart transplant in the country, [2] the count standing at 26 transplants. [1] He performed the first implantation of left ventricular assist device, lasting for more than 90 days, in Asia.
He performed a second heart transplant the following year. [4] On 6 March 2014, Periappuram at Lisie Hospital, Kochi became the first cardiac surgeon to conduct a successful heart re-transplant in India when a patient who had already received a transplant developed a heart valve infection a few months later. [5]
An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart.Artificial hearts are typically used as a bridge to heart transplantation, but ongoing research aims to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart when a transplant—whether from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a genetically engineered pig—is unavailable or not viable.
A beating heart awaiting transplant. American medical researcher Simon Flexner was one of the first people to mention the possibility of heart transplantation. In 1907, he wrote the paper "Tendencies in Pathology," in which he said that it would be possible one day by surgery to replace diseased human organs – including arteries, stomach, kidneys and heart.
The hospital was commissioned in 2000 as part of NH Health City, by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty the Chairman and Founder of Narayana Health, who has performed nearly 15,000 heart surgeries. [2] Its purpose as a center was to focus on complex cardiac surgery and heart transplantation.
Nagarur Gopinath (1922 - 2007) was an Indian surgeon [1] and one of the pioneers of cardiothoracic surgery in India. [2] [3] He is credited with the first successful performance of open heart surgery in India which he performed in 1962. [4]
William J. Schroeder (February 14, 1932 – August 7, 1986), was one of the first recipients of an artificial heart. Schroeder was born in Jasper, Indiana, and was a Sergeant in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1966. [1] On November 25, 1984, at the age of 52, became the second human recipient of the Jarvik 7.