Kerala man has two hearts beating at the same time after complex surgery

Heart surgeries can be quite complicated and it would mean that doctors have to bring their best to the fore to have a successful operation. Doctors at a hospital in Coimbatore conducted a difficult surgery that cured the man of heart failure with two hearts beating at the same time in one body.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the man underwent the complicated surgery to have two beating hearts in his body after he suffered from heart failure earlier. The 45-year-old whose heart had issues earlier did not have enough lung pressure to conduct the transplant through the traditional method without heart failure. So, the doctors used a small female heart and connected it to his heart in a process called heterotopic heart transplantation.

Suresh now has one fully-functional heart along with his heart which is just 10 percent functional but together work perfectly for him in his body. The operation known to be the first of its kind in Asia was conducted at the Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital in Coimbatore by Dr. Prasanth Vaijyanath.