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KIMS performs highest number of Covid double lung transplants
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Hyderabad, April 19 : Doctors at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), have performed 12 Covid double lung transplants amid 50 lung and heart transplants overall between September 2020 and April 2021, the institution said.
This is by far the highest number of Covid double lung transplant procedures performed at a single healthcare institute in Asia in the past eight months.
The Heart & Lung Transplant Institute received critical patients from across the country, and some among these required advanced respiratory support (ECMO) for respiratory failure caused due to Covid-19 virus.