A 32-km ‘green corridor’ was set up between Delhi and Gurgaon to transport a heart, which was transplanted to a 23-year-old girl with a rare heart disease admitted to a city hospital.
The girl, Oshin Goyal, suffered from restrictive cardiomyopathy for the last nine years. She initially had swelling on her feet and legs and gradually developed worsening breathlessness.
The live heart was transported to the Escorts Heart Institute, where the recipient was admitted, in 27 minutes 56 seconds after the ‘Corridor’ was created between Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) in Gurgaon and Fortis Escorts Heart Institute here.
The family of 58-year-old donor, who had suffered brain haemorrhage and was declared brain dead at Fortis in Gurgaon, agreed to donate his organs, doctors said. “Restrictive cardiomyopathy is a rare form of cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the walls of the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) are abnormally rigid and lack the flexibility to expand as the ventricles fill with blood,” ZS Meharwal, Director and Coordinator, Cardiovascular Surgery Fortis Escorts Heart Institute said.