Kauvery Hospital Gets World's First 'Dead Heart Transplant' Surgeon To Lead Transplant Unit

New Delhi: In a bid to expand their Heart and Lung Transplantation Unit, the Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, has appointed Dr kumud Kumar Dhital and Dr Srinivas Rajagopala.

As per a report by The News Minute, the Heart and Lung Transplantation unit will be headed by Dr kumud, who has been appointed by the Program Director.

Dr Kumud is a cardiothoracic surgeon, specializing in Heart & Lung Transplantation and he also has over 25 years of experience in Cardiothoracic Surgery and 20 years of experience in Heart & Lung transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support therapy in the UK, Italy, and Australia.

Dr. Kumud is also globally renowned for being the surgical pioneer of DCD (Donation after Circulatory Death) Heart Transplantation, the first of which was performed in 2014 whilst he was at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, which was widely reported as the world's first Dead Heart Transplant.

This procedure has been described as the most significant advancement in heart transplantation over the past 3 decades and has been adopted by all thoracic transplant centres in the UK and several European centres, and has seen significant uptake recently also in the USA.

The team also has Dr Srinivas Rajagopala, who is the Director of Transplant Pulmonology & Lung Failure Unit and a Senior Consultant in Interventional Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Srinivas Rajagopala has over 19 years of experience in Pulmonology and Intensive Care. He is nationally well known for his interest in the evidence-based management of lung diseases and was involved in many donor lung assessments and extravascular lung perfusion assessments during his Fellowship at Toronto.

He gained rich and varied experience in Pulmonology, Intensive Care, and Transplant Pulmonology at several National and International Institutes such as PGIMER, Chandigarh, JIPMER, Puducherry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, and Toronto General Hospital.

The Heart and Lung Transplant team's primary role shall be the management of advanced heart & lung failure, heart & lung transplantation and, the institution of mechanical circulatory support devices.

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