Last year in July, Rahul Thakur (21) from Maharahstra got the heart-lung transplant surgery done in Chennai's Fortis Malar hospital. Doctors say that getting a donor for a heart-lung transplant is difficult. Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, heart transplant surgeon at Fortis hospital, said, "The mortality and morbidity associated with heart and lung transplant is more than that of heart transplant alone. When is a heart-lung transplant neededA heart-lung transplant is the only treatment available for a patient who has end-stage heart and lung diseases, and all other treatment options have failed. Conditions that most often require a heart-lung transplant are:1.

Source: dna September 02, 2016 02:37 UTC