Soon, patients seeking a heart transplant could be left with two including one in the tummy. City-based cardiac surgeons have put an extra heart in the tummy of two dogs to see if it could help those with a weak heart survive. The answer was yes.
A Frontier Lifeline team has sought the state transplant authority's permission to retrieve 'misfit' hearts from donors for 'piggyback transplants' in patients not fit for a full-fledged heart transplant.
On 05 dec, when a few heart transplant surgeons presented their experiment to other heart surgeons and Transtan officials, they admitted they would have to do larger human trials to see if it will be successful. "We will be forwarding the recommendation to the government," said Transtan member secretary Dr P Balaji.
Surgeons discard donor hearts if their pumping capacity is below 30%. On the contrary, many patients with heart failure may not be able to go in for transplants because of multi-organ failure or other complications, said Frontier Lifeline chief Dr K M Cherian. Such patients will require a left ventricular assist device, a mechanical pump implanted inside the s chest to help a weak heart pump blood. "That machine costs up to Rs 1 crore, he said.
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