India, Aug. 9 -- The country's premier institute, AIIMS-Delhi, has performed its second dual kidney transplant using organs from a marginal donor, a 70-year-old woman who was declared brain dead, for a single recipient, doctors said.

The surgery underscores efforts to expand the deceased-donor pool and provide kidney transplantation to more patients with end-stage kidney disease.

The successful transplant was performed on July 28 by the Department of Surgical Disciplines in collaboration with the departments of Nephrology, Anaesthesia, Transplant Immunology and the Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation (ORBO), AIIMS, Delhi.

The donor, a septuagenarian woman from Command Hospital, Chandimandir, Chandigarh, was considered a marginal donor...