Archive · 31 Jul 2026
Rare Heart‑Liver Transplant Saves 27‑Year‑Old
A 27‑year‑old man in Bengaluru had a very bad liver and a heart problem that made it dangerous to do normal heart surgery.
Doctors at Artemis Hospitals first put a tiny valve into his heart through a catheter, which is a less risky way to fix the heart.
After that, his wife gave part of her liver to him.
The surgery went well, and he got better quickly.
He stopped breathing with a machine the next day, could walk, and was sent home healthy.
The doctors said this shows how important it is for many specialists to work together on tough cases.
Doctors at Artemis Hospitals performed a combined transcatheter heart valve procedure and living donor liver transplant on a 27‑year‑old man with acute‑on‑chronic liver failure and severe tricuspid valve regurgitation.
The patient’s wife donated the right lobe of her liver, enabling a successful living donor transplant after the heart valve was stabilized with a transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention (TTVI).
Conventional open‑heart surgery was deemed too risky due to the patient’s advanced liver disease and bleeding tendency, so a minimally invasive TTVI was chosen first.
Post‑operative recovery was rapid: the patient was weaned from the ventilator the first day, regained mobility, and was discharged in stable condition with only mild residual valve leakage.
Hospital officials highlighted the case as evidence of the need for coordinated care among transplant surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, hepatologists, nephrologists and critical‑care specialists.
- Who
- A 27‑year‑old man, his 22‑year‑old wife, and doctors at Artemis Hospitals
- What
- A combined transcatheter heart valve procedure and living donor liver transplant
- Where
- Bengaluru, India
- Why
- To treat severe liver failure and tricuspid valve regurgitation when conventional open‑heart surgery was too risky
- Hospital
- Artemis Hospitals
- Patient Age
- 27 years
- Procedure
- Transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention + living donor liver transplant
- Donor
- Patient's 22‑year‑old wife
- Outcome
- Successful recovery, discharged stable