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Pakistan’s first heart transplant surgery next month
ISLAMABAD: The first heart transplant surgery in the history of the country will be performed at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC), Rawalpindi, next month by a team of surgeons headed by Major General Azhar Mahmood Kiyani, the AFIC commandant and head of the National Institute of Heart Diseases (NIHD).
All arrangements for the first heart transplant surgery, which will start at around 2:30 hours have been completed. The success ratio of heart transplant surgery is 90 percent while 70 to 80 percent of the patients can survive for at least another 10 years after undergoing heart transplant. The patient, who had undergone heart transplant surgery in Britain, 13 years ago is still alive and living a healthy life.
The heart transplant surgery costs Rs10 million in Britain while it will be possible at the AFIC at the cost of just Rs0.8 million to Rs1 million. The first heart surgery was performed by Dr Bernard in Cape Town city of South Africa in 1967 while an Egyptian Muslim doctor, Sir Ramzi Yaqub, successfully performed the first heart transplant surgery in the early 1980s in Britain.
In Saudi Arabia, the heart transplant surgeries are performed in King Faisal Specialist Hospital since 1986, while the heart transplant surgeries started in India and Iran in 1993 and 1995, respectively. At the AFIC not only arrangements have been made for heart transplant, rather the training of the anaesthetists and pathologists is even better than the set standard. The matching of the blood groups of the donor and beneficiary will be necessary while a comparative genetic study on the two will also be conducted.
Pakistan
And i'll try my best to get a video of it. Man that good.Commandant Mahmood kiyani rocks,i worked under his supervision for sometime.I wish him all the best.
ISLAMABAD: The first heart transplant surgery in the history of the country will be performed at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC), Rawalpindi, next month by a team of surgeons headed by Major General Azhar Mahmood Kiyani, the AFIC commandant and head of the National Institute of Heart Diseases (NIHD).
All arrangements for the first heart transplant surgery, which will start at around 2:30 hours have been completed. The success ratio of heart transplant surgery is 90 percent while 70 to 80 percent of the patients can survive for at least another 10 years after undergoing heart transplant. The patient, who had undergone heart transplant surgery in Britain, 13 years ago is still alive and living a healthy life.
The heart transplant surgery costs Rs10 million in Britain while it will be possible at the AFIC at the cost of just Rs0.8 million to Rs1 million. The first heart surgery was performed by Dr Bernard in Cape Town city of South Africa in 1967 while an Egyptian Muslim doctor, Sir Ramzi Yaqub, successfully performed the first heart transplant surgery in the early 1980s in Britain.
In Saudi Arabia, the heart transplant surgeries are performed in King Faisal Specialist Hospital since 1986, while the heart transplant surgeries started in India and Iran in 1993 and 1995, respectively. At the AFIC not only arrangements have been made for heart transplant, rather the training of the anaesthetists and pathologists is even better than the set standard. The matching of the blood groups of the donor and beneficiary will be necessary while a comparative genetic study on the two will also be conducted.
Pakistan
And i'll try my best to get a video of it. Man that good.Commandant Mahmood kiyani rocks,i worked under his supervision for sometime.I wish him all the best.