Matters of the heart can seldom wait. On the night of June 26, T. Venkata Sai Manohar, 24, was declared brain dead at a hospital in Hyderabad. A team from Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai flew out to Hyderabad to harvest his heart for transplant on a 45-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy, a condition wherein the heart muscles are unable to pump effectively. This involved precise planning and coordinated action...
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