Also called hepatic transplant, it is the process of replacing a diseased liver with a healthy one from a donor. The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation where a surgeon replaces the diseased liver in the same anatomical position as the original liver. It is the best treatment for end stage liver disease and acute liver failure. A liver transplant is a major surgical procedure and requires some substantial care and recovery.
Here is all about two unique treating techniques of liver conditions without having to go for an organ transplant, all thanks to new technology.
A Bengaluru based hospital has conducted Asia's first of its kind liver transplant by using Normothermic Machine Perfusion that can keep your liver alive outside your body for 24 hours.
The youngest baby undergoes a successful liver transplant surgery in entire Western India.
Till about a decade ago, transplants were rare and their success was considered to be a miracle. But with advanced technologies, there are more successful liver transplants these days.
This happened five days after the kidneys and liver of a 60-year-old patient in Goa were transported to Mumbai and transplanted to two persons admitted in two hospitals in the metropolis.
The three-day symposium based on the theme of "Debates in Liver Diseases and Transplantation" offered a unique academic platform comprising the world's leading experts and key opinion leaders.
After 6 weeks of her birth, she was diagnosed with Alagille Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the liver, heart, and other parts of the body.
If you're planning to go for organ donation, read this.
This is the seventh such visa issued by India to Pakistani nationals this month.
These included 2 rare cases a small child with Hepatoblastoma (liver cancer) and a lady with sudden, drug-induced acute liver failure.
By giving her a part of his liver, Kedar Rao has given his mother a new lease of life.
A mother narrates a heart-wrenching story of how her liver helped her son survive and get back to normal life in a couple of months.
This is a very rare kind of surgery. In this surgery, liver from two donors is being transplanted to one recipient.
A two-month-old baby weighing 2.1-kg has successfully undergone a liver transplant.
Bolstering efforts to carry out cadaver organ transplants in West Bengal, a team of doctors at a private hospital here on Tuesday night performed what is possibly eastern India's first such liver transplant in the city, the hospital said in a statement.
Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute and Fortis Memorial Research Institute conducted two intricate transplants recently on two patients out of four who received organ donations from the family of a road traffic accident victim. The patient had been brought in at Fortis Hospital Vasant Kunj on6thJune 2016
Find out more about live organ donation and this rare liver transplant which was the first in the country,
After being diagnosed with Wilson's disease, Mumbai resident Sanjeevani Pathwardhan, decided to adopt two children as it is a hereditary disease. Here's what you need to know about this disease.
A one-year old infant from Kenya underwent a rather unusual liver transplant at Centre for Liver and Biliary Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital where the liver had to be joined directly to the heart as the child did not have the inferior vena cava.
Read to find out how liver swap helped these patients suffering from liver cancer and liver failure.
A 52-year-old brain dead patient's family agreed to donate his organs following which his heart was flown to Mumbai. A 42-year-old patient then underwent a successful heart transplant.
In a first, an Indore donor's heart reaches a Mumbai teen via 'green corridors', giving her a new lease of life
Doctors join two livers to save an obese man's life
Unique organ donation -- liver from live donor, kidney from deceased donor saves a man's life
Here is all about two unique treating techniques of liver conditions without having to go for an organ transplant, all thanks to new technology.
A Bengaluru based hospital has conducted Asia's first of its kind liver transplant by using Normothermic Machine Perfusion that can keep your liver alive outside your body for 24 hours.
The youngest baby undergoes a successful liver transplant surgery in entire Western India.
Till about a decade ago, transplants were rare and their success was considered to be a miracle. But with advanced technologies, there are more successful liver transplants these days.
This happened five days after the kidneys and liver of a 60-year-old patient in Goa were transported to Mumbai and transplanted to two persons admitted in two hospitals in the metropolis.
The three-day symposium based on the theme of "Debates in Liver Diseases and Transplantation" offered a unique academic platform comprising the world's leading experts and key opinion leaders.
After 6 weeks of her birth, she was diagnosed with Alagille Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the liver, heart, and other parts of the body.
If you're planning to go for organ donation, read this.
This is the seventh such visa issued by India to Pakistani nationals this month.
These included 2 rare cases a small child with Hepatoblastoma (liver cancer) and a lady with sudden, drug-induced acute liver failure.
By giving her a part of his liver, Kedar Rao has given his mother a new lease of life.
A mother narrates a heart-wrenching story of how her liver helped her son survive and get back to normal life in a couple of months.
This is a very rare kind of surgery. In this surgery, liver from two donors is being transplanted to one recipient.
A two-month-old baby weighing 2.1-kg has successfully undergone a liver transplant.
Bolstering efforts to carry out cadaver organ transplants in West Bengal, a team of doctors at a private hospital here on Tuesday night performed what is possibly eastern India's first such liver transplant in the city, the hospital said in a statement.
Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute and Fortis Memorial Research Institute conducted two intricate transplants recently on two patients out of four who received organ donations from the family of a road traffic accident victim. The patient had been brought in at Fortis Hospital Vasant Kunj on6thJune 2016
Find out more about live organ donation and this rare liver transplant which was the first in the country,
After being diagnosed with Wilson's disease, Mumbai resident Sanjeevani Pathwardhan, decided to adopt two children as it is a hereditary disease. Here's what you need to know about this disease.
A one-year old infant from Kenya underwent a rather unusual liver transplant at Centre for Liver and Biliary Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital where the liver had to be joined directly to the heart as the child did not have the inferior vena cava.
Read to find out how liver swap helped these patients suffering from liver cancer and liver failure.
A 52-year-old brain dead patient's family agreed to donate his organs following which his heart was flown to Mumbai. A 42-year-old patient then underwent a successful heart transplant.
In a first, an Indore donor's heart reaches a Mumbai teen via 'green corridors', giving her a new lease of life
Doctors join two livers to save an obese man's life
Unique organ donation -- liver from live donor, kidney from deceased donor saves a man's life
