Hyderabad: 12-year-old undergoes rare bilobar lung transplant at Yashoda Hospitals after paraquat poisoning

Yashoda Hospitals performed a world-first bilateral lobar lung transplant on 12-year-old Anurag Sandeep, who suffered severe lung damage after accidentally consuming paraquat. After two weeks on ECMO with no improvement, donor lungs were transplanted, saving his life

Hyderabad: Yashoda Hospitals successfully performed a bilateral lobar lung transplant for the first time in the world on the youngest person who accidentally consumed paraquat poison.

A bilateral lobar lung transplant was performed on 12-year-old Anurag Sandeep, a 6th-class student, who was in critical condition after accidentally consuming paraquat poison. This is the first case of a successful lung transplant on the youngest person who consumed paraquat poison in the world, a press release said.

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Yashoda Hospitals, Director, Dr Pavan Gorukanti, said, “Anurag Sandeep came to Yashoda Hospital-Somajiguda in a life-threatening condition for better treatment.” The paraquat toxins actively reached the lungs, resulting in irreversible pulmonary fibrosis.

The Yashoda Hospitals pulmonary specialists team – Dr Visveswaran Balasubramanian, Dr Chetan Rao, Dr Pankti Seth, Dr Ramya Reddy and lung transplant surgeons Dr K R Balasubramanian, Dr Manjunath Bale performed a bilateral lobar lung transplant at Yashoda Hospitals-Hitec City.

Dr Visveswaran Balasubramanian said the patient was considered for a lung transplant after receiving ECMO support for 2 weeks, as there was no improvement. The patient was listed for emergency lung transplant and the lungs collected from a brain-dead patient (donor) were successfully transplanted as part of the organ donation initiative.