How the longest survivors have lived for more than 33 years after a heart transplant

It was on a visit to Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York in 2006 that I was sitting with Dr Alan Gass, a transplant cardiologist, discussing one of my young patients who had had a heart transplant in 2001 at AIIMS. When I mentioned the year, he immediately took out a yellowed newspaper cutting. It said that bhajan singer Anup Jalota’s young wife, Medha, had had a heart transplant at Mount Sinai the same year as my patient – only Medha…