Apollo Hospitals successfully completes two novel Transplants from a single donor
Asia’s first Small Bowel transplantation combined with Abdominal Wall Transplant; Kidney transplantation using Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion (HOPE ) Chennai: Apollo Hospitals, Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals, has achieved two new milestones. Organ transplant team completes Asia’s first combined Bowel and (sentinel) abdominal wall transplant surgery on a young boy who was suffering from Ultra Short Bowel Syndrome and a complicated Kidney transplantation using Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion (HOPE). Apollo Hospitals brings the organ preservation device Vita Smart HOPE to India that keeps the Kidney outside the body for a longer period of time with continuous oxygen supply which is better for transplantation. Seventeen year-old Chinni Krishna was admitted to Apollo Hospitals with muscle wasting and malnourishment, he had lost 20 KGs in two months (from 50 KGs he became 30 KGs). He was previously admitted to a local hospit...