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This became the ninth cadaver heart transplant in the city this year.“The donor was an independent woman, who raised her kids after her husband’s demise five years into their marriage. A team of doctors led by liver transplant surgeon Bipin Vibhute carried out the surgery at KEM hospital on Friday. “The transplanted heart is beating normally,” said a doctor.The woman’s liver gave a new lease of life to a 48-year-old farmer from Baramati. PUNE: A 17-year-old boy convinced his grandparents to donate his brain-dead mother’s heart and other vital organs to five patients suffering from end-stage heart, liver and kidney diseases in Pune and Nashik on Friday.The woman’s heart gave a new lease of life to a 62-year-old medical practitioner in Pune, who had been suffering from cardiomyopathy . The organ donation took place on December 14.“We allocated heart to a patient at Ruby Hall Clinic and liver to a patient at KEM hospital..