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Mitral valve disease is the most common heart condition in dogs in India as well as in the rest of the world.
Angioplasty is a medical procedure to fix narrowed or blocked blood vessels, especially coronary arteries in the heart or arteries in other parts of the body.
Bert Janssen was 17 when he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
Harinarayanan has received the heart of Kanyakumari native Selvin Shekhar (36), whose brain death was confirmed by doctors at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
The free consultation camp as part of the project will be held at Muvattupuzha Nirmala Higher Secondary School on April 22 and 23.
Siblings Suhada, Sidana, Shayifa and Fathima who had availed the healthcare services at a similar camp earlier were among those who attended.
The expert doctors at the Medical Mission Hospital would lead the consultation camps and prepare a priority list of the patients who require the surgery.
While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
The former Kiwi all-rounder said that he doesn't know what will happen going forward but the only option was to just "keep going".
The Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a complex and rare procedure which needs good expertise and only few centres in India are doing it at present.