Global Hospital, Parel performs heart transplant surgery with advanced immunodiagnostic technique

Global Hospital, Parel, Mumbai successfully performed a heart transplant using a first-of-its-kind advanced immunodiagnostic technique. The technique is a complicated case of Dilated Cardio Myopathy with severe left ventricular dysfunction. The donor was a 41-year-old female and the recipient was a 31-year-old male.

Dr Pravin Kulkarni, Lead Heart Transplant and senior CVTS surgeon, at Global Hospital, Parel, Mumbai performed the surgery successfully.

Dr Kulkarni said, “A young donor, lesser ischemia time (time between the stopping of the heart at the donor’s end to starting of the heart at recipient’s side), advanced HLA and Flow cytometry cross matches and good nursing care resulted in excellent clinical outcomes.”