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When heart disease is advanced, patients no longer improve with only medications. This is called Heart Failure and heart becomes weak.

This may be due to decreased blood supply to heart (coronary artery disease) or advanced valve problems. Then the only solution to such patients is Heart Transplantation.

Heart Transplantation (replacement of a damaged heart with a normally functioning heart) is done when heart function is severely decreased and it is expected that patient will not live long with ongoing treatment.

Heart Transplantation - where in the weak heart is removed and replaced by a healthy heart from another brain dead donor.

What is Heart Transplantation?

The heart is the hardest working muscle in

the human body. Located almost in the

center of the chest, the adult human heart is

about the size of one’s fist.

At an average rate of 80 times a minute, the

heart beats about 115,000 times in one day

or 42 million times in a year.

During an average lifetime, the human heart

will beat more than 3 billion times, pumping

an amount of blood that equals about 1

million barrels. Even when a person is at

rest, the heart is continuously at work.

Heart Transplantation is a major heart

surgery. It is considered for a patient with

heart disease only when there is no other

option to make him/her live longer with

quality life and without it person is unlikely to

live longer than a few months.

Who Needs Heart Transplantation?

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Normally when heart pumps, it will eject 60-

70% blood in it. This is called ejection

fraction. However many conditions can

damage the heart muscle so that it ejects

less and less. This will result in heart failure.

Heart failure can be caused by:

Coronary Heart Disease.

Hereditary Conditions

Viral Infections of the Heart

Damaged Heart Valves and Muscles.

(Alcohol, pregnancy, and certain

medicines can damage the heart valves

and muscles).

Indications - Heart Transplantation

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Indian Parliament has passed Organ Transplant Bill in 1994 to legalize organ

transplants in India.

First successful heart transplant in India, was done by Prof Venugopal on

3rd of August, 1994 at All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi. In

Tamilnadu, Dr. K.M.Cherian, Dr. K.R.Balakrishnan, Dr Girinadh T and in

Kerala, Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram, are pursuing active heart

transplantation programmes.

There are very few hospitals in India which performed heart transplants.

Nearly 125 heart transplants are done in India so far.

Heart Transplantation in India

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Heart Transplantation in South India

has tremendously taken a momentum

with Dr. A.G.K.Gokhale and his team

performing successful heart transplant in

the states of Telangana and Andhra

Pradesh.

Dr Gokhale performed the first heart

transplantation in Andhra Pradesh at

Global Hospitals, Hyderabad on 6th of

February 2004.

Dr A.G.K.Gokhale is presently Chief

Cardiothoracic, Transplant and

Minimal Access Surgeon at Yashoda

Hospitals

Heart Transplantation in South India

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In 2014, Dr Gokhale & Team at Yashoda

Hospitals, Secunderabad has performed

successful heart transplantation in

Telangana. He has performed 9 heart

transplantations.

Dr Gokhale did successful heart

transplantation on 69 year old man – the

oldest person to undergo heart

transplantation in India.

Dr Gokhale is the driving force for heart

transplantation in Hyderabad.

He is presently heading heart and lung

transplant programme at Yashoda hospitals,

Secunderabad. Dr Gokhale happens to be

the first heart surgeon in South India who

did both heart transplants and single lung

transplants successfully.

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