24-Year-Old Undergoes a Double Organ Transplant of the Heart and Liver at Fortis Hospital, Mumbai

By Bipasha Mitra

Major vital organs helped 4 different patients

A 24-year-old man underwent a double transplant of the heart and the liver in a single surgery at Fortis Hospital Mulund, Mumbai.
The organ was donated from a 40-year-old brain dead woman who underent brain stroke and was declared dead by the time she was taken to the hospital.
The patient was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and liver cirrhosis.
While the donor heart was extracted by the head of cardiac transplant team, Dr Anvay Mulay, the donor liver was extracted by Dr Rakesh Rai, senior consultant and hepato-pancreatic-biliary and transplant surgeon.
Both the transplants were successfully performed by the respective surgeons in a 14 hour long surgery.
The lungs and kidney harvested from the cadaverous donor helped to save three other lives.
The lungs were donated to a patient at Apollo Hospital, Chennai whereas her two kidneys provided life to patients at INS Ashwini in Colaba and Jaslok Hospital.

Source: Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai

Written by

Bipasha Mitra

Vaidam Health · Updated 25 Sept 2026

After completing her Bachelors Degree in English and PG Diploma in Journalism, Bipasha started her career in writing. With an eye for detail and a creative bent of mind, she emphatically crafts patient's stories, and pens blogs and articles understanding what the readers want to know and should know for their medical treatment.

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Dr. Anvay MulayCardiac Surgeon

Currently associated as Consultant and Head Cardiac Surgeon with Department of Heart Transplant. One of the topmost and renowned cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon in India Performed more than 4000 successful beating heart bypass surgeries Pioneer in Adult Cardiac Surgery, especially in the field of Coronary Bypass Artery Graft Surgery (CABG) To his credit, he has the largest series of beating heart coronary bypass surgeries Interests are Total Arterial Revasculan’zation, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Mitral, Aortic, tricuspid Valve Repair, Aortic Root Replacements, Aortic Aneurysm / Aortic Dissections and Surgery for heart failure Member of Indian Society of Cardio-Vascular & Thoracic Surgeons of India, Maharashtra Medical Council and Indian Medical Council and General Medical Council of UK