A 23-year-old man from Mahabubabad who tried to kill himself by drinking a potent herbicide was saved by doctors who performed a rare double lung transplant.
“The patient imbibed paraquat (paraquat dichloride), and usually we tell caretakers of such patients to take them home as the prognosis is grim. But this was a young man. While his kidneys and liver recovered, the lungs suffered irreversible pulmonary fibrosis,” said Hari Kishan Gonuguntla, interventional pulmonologist at Yashoda Hospitals, who led the team that carried out the double lung transplant to save the patient.
The patient received the donor lungs from a cadaveric brain-dead donor from the State-run Jeevandan Cadaver Transplantation Programme.
