Kolkata: Lung transplantation debuted in East India after a doctor in Kolkata conducted a double lung transplant procedure in a man (46) in an operation that began on Monday and continued until Tuesday dawn.
The recipient was an executive in the Department of IT, who signed the Coronavirus novel in June and then, shifted to Medica Superspecialty from another hospital with severe covid pneumonia.
When his condition did not improve even after 90 days at ECMO, the hospital, consulting with his family, registering his name for lung transplants with the organization of national organs and network transplantation (notto) and organ organization and regional or network transplantation (Rotto).
Notto on Monday sharing details with Rotto when Manish Shah, a 52-year-old patient at United Green Hospital, letter, declared dead brain.
Medica, who is waiting for a suitable lung, applied to the organ when the Rotto offers it.
Team seven members from Medica flew to a letter on Monday morning, took organs and flew back at night.
Transplante starts around 10:30 and it takes almost seven hours to finish it.
The patient was finally pushed out of OT at around 10:30 a.m.
on Tuesday.
Medica Deputy Chair and Cardiologist Kunal Sarkar, who also headed the Medica Institute of Cardiac Sciences, said, “Lung transplantation in Covid patients is at high risk and challenging.
Post-covid pulmonary transplant is one of the most stringent surgical challenges.
Our team is the same With the assignment.
We have discussed distance, but still have several ways to go.
“This procedure was carried out by a broad team of heart surgery and critical care of the heart which included Doctors Kunal Sarkar, Saptarshi Roy, Arpan Chatraborty, Dipantaj Chatterjee, Mrinal Bandhu Das, Tripti Talapra, Ashutosh Samal, Shravan Kumar, Writuparna Das, Writuparna Das, Saibal Si and Hirak Suvra Majumder, and assisted by Deblal Pandit, Saibal Tripathy and Soumalya Mitra.
“Having experience running the largest ECMO program in India, and throughout Asia, we are familiar with severe Covid difficulties.
For those who do not respond to ECMO, lung transplantation is a choice.
We hope our recipients restore satisfactory recovery,” said ECMO Arpan specialist Chakrabarty and Chatterjee’s critical care specialist.
“Thank you our sincere to support the transplant program.
We also thank you for contributing life, police, and CISF personnel in the letter and Kolkata,” said Chair of Medica Alok Roy.
The NGO letter donated the life of advising the family of people who died to contribute their organs.
It helps the organ ferry until the airport mail.
“We are happy to have played a small role in facilitating the first East Indian lung transplantation,” said Nilesh Mandlewala from Donate Life.
Kolkata: Covid Man gets new lungs in night operations
