<p>A resident of Mumbai, Mehra was today declared the oldest recipient of living donor liver transplant who is now leading a normal life.<br /><br />He underwent a successful liver transplant after his daughter donated a portion of her liver.<br /><br />"In today's fast changing world age remains no criteria for getting liver transplant done. <br /><br />We have done successful liver transplants on 240 patients at Medanta in last one year on patients of 3 months of age to 78 years," Dr A Soin, chairman , Institute of Liver Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Medanta Hospital said.<br /><br />He said Mehra is the oldest liver transplant recipient in India and has proved that age really has no bearing on the outcome of any surgery if one is medically fit.<br /><br />"We have more than 70 senior citizens who have undergone successful liver transplant and are leading normal lives. I wish all grandparents best of health and many more years of healthy life," he said.<br /><br />J R Verma, a Delhi resident, underwent a total knee replacement at the age of 79 years in 1999 and four months back he underwent revision surgery at the age of 91 years after a fall.<br /><br />"He is leading as active a life as any young 91-years -old does," Dr Ashok Rajgopal, Chairman, Institute of Bone and Joint Replacement, said.<br /><br />He said, "while the common belief is that artificial knee replacement surgery should not be done on the very young or the very old and that it has a very limited life span, the truth is quite the opposite. Age really has no bearing on the outcome of this surgery."<br /><br />Doctors also cited the case 82-year-old Roop Singh who underwent a successful graft replacement for a leaking aortic aneurysm, 72-year-old Birender Nihal Singh and Ravinder Singh (68) who were successfully operated for cardiac bypass surgery.<br /><br />"Today, age has really no bearing on the outcome of various surgeries we perform," Dr Naresh Trehan, chairman and managing director, Medanta, said.<br /><br /></p>
<p>A resident of Mumbai, Mehra was today declared the oldest recipient of living donor liver transplant who is now leading a normal life.<br /><br />He underwent a successful liver transplant after his daughter donated a portion of her liver.<br /><br />"In today's fast changing world age remains no criteria for getting liver transplant done. <br /><br />We have done successful liver transplants on 240 patients at Medanta in last one year on patients of 3 months of age to 78 years," Dr A Soin, chairman , Institute of Liver Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Medanta Hospital said.<br /><br />He said Mehra is the oldest liver transplant recipient in India and has proved that age really has no bearing on the outcome of any surgery if one is medically fit.<br /><br />"We have more than 70 senior citizens who have undergone successful liver transplant and are leading normal lives. I wish all grandparents best of health and many more years of healthy life," he said.<br /><br />J R Verma, a Delhi resident, underwent a total knee replacement at the age of 79 years in 1999 and four months back he underwent revision surgery at the age of 91 years after a fall.<br /><br />"He is leading as active a life as any young 91-years -old does," Dr Ashok Rajgopal, Chairman, Institute of Bone and Joint Replacement, said.<br /><br />He said, "while the common belief is that artificial knee replacement surgery should not be done on the very young or the very old and that it has a very limited life span, the truth is quite the opposite. Age really has no bearing on the outcome of this surgery."<br /><br />Doctors also cited the case 82-year-old Roop Singh who underwent a successful graft replacement for a leaking aortic aneurysm, 72-year-old Birender Nihal Singh and Ravinder Singh (68) who were successfully operated for cardiac bypass surgery.<br /><br />"Today, age has really no bearing on the outcome of various surgeries we perform," Dr Naresh Trehan, chairman and managing director, Medanta, said.<br /><br /></p>