Chennai, July 7 : MGM Healthcare gave a new lease of life to a four-year-old Russian boy, who successfully underwent a complex bi-lateral lung transplant.
The boy Nazar Dianov is now one of Asia’s youngest recipients to undergo this procedure.
A 20-member team headed by Dr.K.R. Balakrishnan Chairman and Director of Cardiac Sciences and Director of the Heart and Lung Transplant Program successfully conducted this procedure on December 15, 2020.
Addressing a virtual media meet today, Dr.Balakrishnan said the boy was diagnosed with fibrosing alveolitis at the tender age of two months and was put on ventilator as his oxygen saturation
was extremely low.
He then underwent tracheostomy when he was six months in Russia and was airlifted to Chennai in 2018 for further management and a possible lung transplant referred by the doctors in Russia.
The boy was kept on ventilator for three years here as the doctors tried to find a suitable donor organ for him.
A two-year old brain dead donor became available in December 2020 in Surat, Gujarat and the organ was airlifted.
The boy underwent bilateral lung transplantation at MGM hospital.
“We kept him under observation in ICU care and are happy that the newly transplanted lungs are responding well”, Dr Balakrishnan said.
He said this is one of the longest duration for a small child to be kept on ventilator before undergoing a successful transplant in the world and is the youngest lung transplant in India and one of the youngest
in Asia.(UNI)