ISLAMABAD The News said on Saturday that a Pakistani adolescent who traveled from Karachi to Chennai, India, for a heart transplant is now being monitored at MGM Healthcare.
At the age of 14, Ayesha Rashid, now 19 years old, was given a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder characterized by an enlarged left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber.
Ayesha’s left ventricle assist device (LVAD) was initially installed in her heart by a team under the direction of Dr. KR Balakrishnan, but the device malfunctioned and caused an infection, according to accounts in Indian media.
Subsequently, the team successfully carried out a heart transplant using the donor heart of a brain-dead Indian patient, aged 69, who was flown from Delhi to Chennai.
