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One of Asia’s youngest recipient successfully undergoes complex bilateral lung transplant at MGM Healthcare Chennai

Jul 8, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Chairman & Director of Cardiac Sciences, #Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation Programme, #Director of the Heart and Lung Transplant Program, #Dr K R Balakrishnan, #Dr Suresh Rao K G, #MGM Healthcare Chennai

Chennai: MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of the Chennai, today announced that it had successfully performed a complex bi-lateral lung transplant on Master. NazarDianov a 4-year old boy from Russia and is now one of Asia’s youngest recipients to undergo this procedure.

A 20-member team under the leadership of Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan Chairman & Director of Cardiac Sciences and Director of the Heart and Lung Transplant Program, MGM Healthcare successfully conducted this procedure on the patient on December 15, 2020.

Speaking about the patient,Dr. Balakrishnan explained, “Master. NazarDianov, a 4-year old boy from Russia was diagnosed with fibrosing alveolitis at the tender age of 2 months and was put on ventilator as his oxygen saturation was extremely low. He then underwent tracheostomy at the age of 6 months in Russia and was airlifted to our unit in Chennai in 2018 for further management and a possible lung transplant referred by the doctors in Russia.

Dr. Suresh Rao K.G, Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation Programme & Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare said, “He was kept on ventilator for 3 years in Chennai as we tried to find a suitable donor organ for him. A 2-year old brain dead donor became available in December 2020 in Surat, Gujarat and the organ was airlifted. Master Nazar underwent bilateral lung transplantation at our hospital in December 2020. We kept him under observation in ICU care and are happy to report that the newly trans-planted lungs are responding well in the patient. This is one of the longest duration for a small child to be kept on ventilator before undergoing a successful transplant in the world and is the youngest lung transplant in India and one of the youngest in Asia.

Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan said it is a testimony to the sincerity and skill of our nurses in Chen-nai that this child is alive today. It is a Herculean task anywhere in the world to keep such a small child on ventilator for 3 years without anycomplications.Interestingly, the nurses have learnt to speak a few words of Russian and the boy understands common words in Tamil!

Speaking on their experience, Master Nazar’s parents said,“We would like to thank the clinical team led by Dr. Balakrishnan and Dr Suresh Rao at MGM Healthcare for giving our son a fresh lease of life. We would like to extend our gratitude to the nursing team for their diligent service during these testing times for us and to Trastan and NOTTO and the donor family for this extremely generous gift.”

The hospital further said that the child is currently off the ventilator and on minimal oxygen support. He is recovering well and undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation and will be able lead a normal life in the future.

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Two-year old toddler gets bilateral Cochlear Implantation using the world’s most advanced sound processors and wireless off the ear’ technology

Apr 14, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty, #Head & Neck Surgery, #MGM Healthcare Chennai, #Senior Consultant & HOD - ENT

Chennai, 14th April 2021: MGM Institute of ENT, Head & Neck Surgery under MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of the city today announced that it has successfully conducted bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation surgery of a 2-year old toddler from Odisha. The toddler is the youngest recipient of this device simultaneously implanted bilaterally with the most advanced sound processor technology with wireless (off the ear) speech processors in Tamil Nadu. This is the 3rd consecutive successful bilateral wireless cochlear implantation surgery post the official launch of MGM Cochlear Implant programme 3 months ago at the hospital.

The toddler, Arabinda was diagnosed with congenital deafness during a routine screening of speech and hearing assessment after birth. He was monitored at regular intervals and no improvement in his hearing was observed despite the use of best available hearing aids. The family then consulted the experts at MGM Healthcare and after the primary examination, Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty and his team informed the family that cochlear implantation was the only viable remedial option to avoid complete deafness with impairment of speech and communication.

This is one of the most advanced available technology today and comes with up to 3 tesla MRI compatibility, wireless sound processor (off the ear), is functional under water, equipped with Bluetooth connectivity and can be operated with rechargeable batteries. These implants eliminates the hassle of changing batteries, wearing the speech processor behind the ear and cables which used to be the case in the earlier models of implants.

Prof Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty, Senior Consultant & HOD – ENT, Head & Neck Surgery, MGM Healthcare Chennai shared his views on the case and said, “After a detailed examination of the toddler, we advised the surgery and post the parents nod, we successfully implanted implants code named, Cochlear profile 632 perimodiolar slim series with wireless (off the ear) Kanso 2 speech processors simultaneously in both ears of the young kid. It will enhance the quality of sound that the patient can hear and understand and aid him in his day-to-day activities. Bilateral cochlear implantation in the very young child, is a proven procedure that can improve a patient’s hearing and quality of life. In this case, there was significant hearing loss in the toddler’s ears and hearing aids didn’t have the desired impact on the child’s hearing. Through this surgery, the implants overcomes the problem by interacting directly with the auditory nerve, capture the sound, process and electrically stimulate the nerves.”

He further added, “The toddler has recovered well post-surgery and will undergo programmed auditory verbal therapy sessions to aid him in improving his communication and speech abilities in due course of time. We would like to express our gratitude to the benevolent donors and philanthropists who organized a crowd-funding program to meet the requirements of the entire treatment.”