Miracles happen every day and doctors of Apollo, India has proved it again.

As a last-ditch attempt to salvage a man's life, surgeons at Apollo, Hyderabad created history by performing a once-in-the life-time piggyback operation successfully.

After the transplant, the recipient was left with "two beating hearts".

In the beginning, the 56-year-old patient was supposed to undergo the standard transplant operation; however, the operating panel could fathom out that the donor organ obtained from the brain-dead teenager was too small.

The operation was performed by Dr A Gopala Krishna Gokhale, an esteemed cardiothoracic surgeon working at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad. He decided to switch to "Plan B" and established a connection between the impaired organ to the healthy one.

Now, the patient has two hearts, two different pulses and a complex electrocardiogram which is nothing less than a miracle.