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Apollo conducts first liver transplant in AP
Dr Sandeep said the male patient hailing from Vijaywada was suffering from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis related cirrhosis and decompensated liver failure.He had a very poor quality of life due to accumulation of excessive water in his body, episodes of bleeding into his gut and hepatic encephalopathy (liver failure related mental changes).
Visakhapatnam: Apollo Hospitals announced performing the first liver transplant on a Vijayawada patient. The operation was conducted by a team of specialists that lasted for eight hours.
Dr Sandeep Chatrath, Central Regional CEO, Apollo Hospitals, and Dr Manish C Verma, chief transplant surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, told reporters here on Wednesday that it was a complex liver transplant surgery done without transfusing blood and performed on a 55-year-old patient on July 30 at Apollo Hospitals. The patient recovered and will be discharged soon.
Dr Sandeep said the male patient hailing from Vijaywada was suffering from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis related cirrhosis and decompensated liver failure.He had a very poor quality of life due to accumulation of excessive water in his body, episodes of bleeding into his gut and hepatic encephalopathy (liver failure related mental changes).
In addition, his cirrhosis liver also had a cancerous tumour which necessitated an immediate operation. His family had no matching live donor and therefore had no option, but to wait for a cadaveric organ from a brain dead person.
Fortunately, a matching liver from a brain dead patient was available and allocated to him by Jeevandan. “This operation is also a landmark operation as it is the first liver transplant in the State to be done without blood transfusion,” Verma said.
He said liver transplant has always been an operation, which requires high volumes of blood transfusion and this operation without any transfusion was a clinical benchmark which is rarely achieved. Dr Sandeep Chatrath said Apollo Hospitals runs one of the largest organ transplant programmes in the world.
Apollo Hospitals, Vizag, has also taken the initiative to sensitise and create awareness about the noble act of organ donation and it is being on par with the gift of life, amongst the lay public on the eve of the Organ Donation Day on August 13.
This is imperative since over five lakh patients are awaiting organ transplantation in the country. He said the city has been ahead of several cities in the country in donating organs, despite that it is not having a proper transplant programme in place.
