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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.
Jose Chacko Periappuram (born on April 28, 1958) is an Indian cardiac surgeon and medical writer who performed the first successful heart transplant in the state of Kerala, India, as well as the first successful heart retransplant in the country.
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.
He was the founder of Frontier Lifeline Hospital, where he performed India's second heart transplant surgery in 1995. [6] He also performed the country's first heart-lung transplant and the country's first pediatric cardiac surgery. [7] Dr.K.M.Cherian is also credited with introducing the Physician Assistant profession in India in the year 1992.
A man is doing well after the first successful transplant of a pig heart into a human body, according to the University of Maryland.
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]