World’s Youngest Successful Lung Transplant for Paraquat-Induced Lung Fibrosis

A Very Rare and Successful Bilateral Lobar Lung Transplantation at Yashoda Hospitals saves a 12-Year-Old Boy from Paraquat Poisoning-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Hyderabad, 18th November, 2025: Yashoda Hospitals has started a new chapter in the history of world organ transplantation. Yashoda Hospitals, which is already a leader in the country with a large number of organ transplant operations (organ transplantations), has now created a new history by successfully performing a bilateral lobar lung transplant for the first time in the world on the youngest person who accidentally consumed paraquat poison. Yashoda Hospitals has successfully performed a Bilateral Lobar Lung Transplantation on 12-year-old Anurag Sandeep, 6th Class student, son of farmer Satish Kumar and Sumalatha from Odela village in Peddapalli district, who was in critical condition after accidentally consuming paraquat poison. This is the first case of successful lung transplant on the youngest person who consumed paraquat poison in the world.

On this occasion, Yashoda Hospitals Director, Dr. Pavan Gorukanti, said, “12-year-old Master Anurag Sandeep, son of farmer Satish Kumar and Sumalatha from Odela village in Peddapalli district, was admitted to a local hospital in Hyderabad on 15th March, 2025, after accidentally consuming paraquat poison. Master Anurag Sandeep came to Yashoda Hospital–Somajiguda on 21st April, 2025, in a life-threatening condition for better treatment. Paraquat toxins actively reached the lungs, resulting in irreversible pulmonary fibrosis. Although he received ECMO support for 2 weeks under the supervision of our experienced critical care medical team, our medical team suggested a lung transplant as there was no improvement in him.

The team of Yashoda Hospitals pulmonary specialists – Dr. Visveswaran Balasubramanian, Dr. Chetan Rao, Dr. Pankti Seth, Dr. Ramya Reddy, and lung transplant surgeons Dr. K.R. Balasubramanian and Dr. Manjunath Bale – successfully performed a Bilateral Lobar Lung Transplant at Yashoda Hospitals–Hitech City. In such circumstances, he said that this is the first time in the world that a lung transplant has been performed on a very young person for paraquat poisoning-induced lung fibrosis. It is a matter of great pride for our Telugu states to create history in the field of global medicine–organ transplant by giving a new life to 12-year-old Master Anurag Sandeep, who was in critical condition, with double lung transplantation,” said Dr. Pavan Gorukanti, Director of Yashoda Hospitals.

Somajiguda–Yashoda Hospital Senior Consultant Interventional Pulmonology Specialist Dr. Visveswaran Balasubramanian said, “Master Anurag Sandeep, who came to us in a life-threatening condition, was immediately given supportive care and appropriate medications to treat secondary bacterial infection. With the treatment given, his liver and kidney parameters gradually returned to normal levels. He was put on mechanical ventilator and then switched to extracorporeal support (ECMO) as patient oxygenation deteriorated. He was considered for lung transplant after receiving ECMO support for 2 weeks, as there was no improvement.

After detailed and extensive counseling with the family members, the patient was listed for emergency lung transplant. The lungs collected from a brain-dead patient (donor) were successfully transplanted as part of the organ donation initiative of the Telangana State “Jeevan Daan” organization. Performing bilateral lobar transplant in children is an unusually complex and rare procedure that requires precision and expertise. The lung transplant surgery was successfully performed by the multidisciplinary team of transplant surgeons at Yashoda Hospitals, who had to remove the extra part of the lung collected from the donor and transplant it to a 12-year-old patient with great precision.

Master Anurag Sandeep was shifted to the ICU in a stable condition, and was kept on ventilator support for another 24 hours, and then kept in the ICU for two weeks under the supervision of doctors, and then shifted to a hospital room. With the state-of-the-art medical facilities at Yashoda Hospitals and the 24-hour supervision of an expert medical team, Master Anurag Sandeep made a remarkable recovery in a very short time and was successfully discharged from the hospital,” informed Dr. Visveswaran Balasubramanian.

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• United News of India (UNI)
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