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A 34-year-old teacher dependent on dialysis twice weekly just survived a high-risk heart valve replacement that doctors said was essential before she could receive a kidney transplant. The complex surgery in Vijayawada shows how far medical teams can push boundaries to save lives once thought too fragile for major operations.
A man who had groundbreaking heart surgery in 1975 is thriving at 80, celebrating a medical procedure that's now five times safer and twice as fast. His journey from experimental patient to Australia's longest-surviving bypass recipient shows how far cardiac care has come.
A public hospital in India just received a cutting-edge heart-lung machine worth $2 million, donated by a major bank foundation. The equipment will help save countless lives in a region where many patients couldn't afford advanced cardiac care.
A 43-year-old patient walked out of Apollo Hospital in Visakhapatnam after surgeons performed a groundbreaking cardiac procedure never before done in the city. The David procedure saved his life while preserving his own heart valve. ##