Overview
- Yashoda Hospitals performed a bilateral lobar lung transplant on 12-year-old Anurag Sandeep after irreversible pulmonary fibrosis from paraquat ingestion.
- The child required mechanical ventilation and two weeks of ECMO without improvement before being listed for an emergency transplant.
- Surgeons resized and adapted lobes from adult donor lungs to fit the boy’s chest in a complex pediatric procedure.
- Donor organs were allocated from a brain-dead patient through the state-run organ donation network.
- The patient stabilized after surgery, was weaned off ventilator support, and was discharged; the hospital describes the case as the world’s youngest successful paraquat-related lung transplant.