A 78-year-old patient with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome underwent a high-risk lung transplantation at MGM Healthcare, Chennai. Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare, said this was probably the first case in Asia where a 78-year-old who was on ECMO for nearly two months had undergone a successful bilateral lung transplant. “Normally when an older patient’s condition does not improve after …
In what is perhaps India’s longest ECMO battle against COVID-19, a Chennai man diagnosed with coronavirus and resultant lung complications spent about 109 days on ECMO and ventilator support and recovered without having to undergo a lung transplant, the city hospital which treated him said on Thursday. Mudijja, a 56-year-old from Chennai stepped out of the hospital as a healthy …
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support is now being used in several hospitals to help severe COVID patients, who have acute pneumonia or lung damage, and in cases where ventilators are failing to maintain blood oxygen levels. Dr Suresh Rao, Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Chennai, told News18.com that ECMO support is basically an artificial lung outside the patient’s …
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