Another cadaver transplantation was performed in the city on Wednesday. Sixty-year-old Pentakota Lakshmi of Chitala Agraharam near Pendurthi had suffered a stroke and was declared brain dead at the NRI Hospital on Tuesday. Her family members were convinced to donate her organs and the body was shifted to Manipal Hospitals which was authorised to harvest the organs and conduct transplantation surgeries.
Two kidneys and liver were harvested from the brain dead person and were allotted to Manipal Hospitals and Seven Hills Hospitals here and were transplanted. The heart and the lungs were found not to be fit for transplantation since the brain dead person was old.
A team from Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad reached here on Wednesday morning and took the liver to Hyderabad by the evening flight, Vice-Chancellor of NTR University of Health Sciences and Jeevan Daan programme’s Appropriate Authority for Cadaver Transplant T. Raviraju told The Hindu. A kidney was transplanted onto a 60-year-old man at Manipal Hospitals, unit head of the hospital Sukesh Reddy said. Consultant nephrologist of the hospital P. Sriram Naveen performed the surgery.
