Chennai  :

Apollo Hospitals Chennai has recently transplanted a pancreas.

Generally, the pancreas is transplanted along with kidneys.

The pancreas harvested from a 20-year-old brain-dead person was flown in from Coimbatore and successfully taken to Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, with the help of Chennai Traffic Police who created a green corridor from the airport to the hospital.

The recipient is a 33-year-old man with insulin dependent diabetes and ‘hypoglycemia unawareness’. These patients do not get warning signs of low blood sugar (sweat, heart pounding etc) and consequently just drop when the sugar gets critically low.

The organ was transplanted by a team of surgeons at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. Dr Anil Vaidya le the surgery.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Chennai / by Express News Service / February 25th, 2016