The multi
organ transplant department in We Care Health Services represented hospitals
provide state-of-the-art tertiary level service in liver, kidney and pancreas
transplantation and liver, pancreas, gallbladder and biliary tract surgery.
Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Surgery :
This department boasts specialists with vast experience in a wide variety
of surgical conditions that affect the Liver, Pancreas, gall bladder and the
biliary tree including tumours involving these organs, jaundice cause by benign
blockage of the bile duct including stones. Surgery of the liver is very complex
and specialized procedure that is best undertaken by trained experts in this
field as in Apollo. Complex liver surgeries can be undertaken by the liver
transplant team.
Liver failure treatment and Liver Transplant Service
What is liver failure? What
causes it?
This is a potentially fatal condition in which the liver progressively stops
performing its function resulting in episodes of jaundice, accumulation of
fluid in the body, blood vomiting and confusion. Conditions such as Hepatitis
B or Hepatitis C infection, excess alcohol consumption, diseases such as Primary
Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis can cause this state.
Can it be treated?
With modern medicine, it is now possible to treat most such cases successfully.
While a proportion of patients with acute liver failure can recover by receiving
treatment in specialised liver ICUs such as the one available at Apollo, most
other patients ultimately require liver transplantation. Medicines, and other
measures such as draining ascites and stopping the blood vomiting by endoscopy
are only temporary and do not halt the progress of the disease. Most such
patients die within a few months to a year unless liver transplantation can
be performed.
Is such treatment available in India?
Liver transplantation is an accepted treatment for liver failure in the west.
The minimum expense for a liver transplant in the USA for example, is around
$ 350,000 hence only a handful have been able to successfully receive transplants
abroad.
Now, We Care Health Services represented hospitals have the state-of-the-art
facilities for managing adult patients and children sufferring from liver
failure. Liver transplants are being performed here at fraction of the cost
of having it done in the west
Our liver specialists/ transplant experts have the distinction of having trained
and worked for several years at the worlds' most renowned centres in USA,
U.K. and Japan where they have successfully treated hundreds of such patients
with expert ICU management and liver transplant surgery. They are well-versed
with the transplantation techniques in adult and children using either organs
from brain dead donors or portion of liver from a living related donor. The
liver transplant unit is the only one of its kind in whole of south and west
Asia to carry out successful adult- adult living donor right to be liver transplantation.
More than 50 Liver transplantation have been carried out till date. The departments
of dedicated Liver ICU manned by trained doctors and nursing staff and fully
equipped with state-of-the-art ventilators and monitors, high-tech operating
rooms with anesthesia staff trained with liver transplant anesthesia and round-the-clock
investigation facilities including an advanced Transplant Immunology lab support
and cyclosporine estimation.
In addition the department offers a comprehensive gastroenterology and
nutrition service including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy.
Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Access Service :
We Care Health Services represented hospitals have one of the best equipped
and most successful kidney transplantation and dialysis programmes in the
country, comparable to the best in the world.
Staff :
Dedicated transplant physicians and surgeons trained at the best centres in
the world.
No waiting period :
Due to availability of dialysis of all types, all the sophisticated investigations
and specialist staff under the same roof, the donor and the recipient can
be quickly prepared for transplant with all due attention. A kidney failure
patient can literally be transplanted within a week of walking into the hospital.
Excellent results :
In the first 4 years of our kidney transplant programme, we have perfomed
500 kidney transplants with 93% success which are figures that compare favourably
with those of the best centres in the world.
Retransplants
:
We offer retransplants to patients whose previous transplant done elsewhere
may have failed. Post transplant complication management Due to our state-of-the-art
facilities and technical expertise, we feel confident in inviting referrals
for complex post transplant complications that cannot be managed elsewhere.
Cadaveric
Transplants :
We Care Health Services represented hospitals are the few centres in the country
that have the facilities and the technical expertise for cadaveric organ procurement
and transplantation. As a result, in India, the maximum number of kidney transplants
using cadaveric donor kidneys have been carried by the Apollo group.
Kidney- Pancreas Transplant Service :
Pancreas transplants are indicated for patients with insulin dependent dibetes
in young age which has serious consequences to the kidneys, eyes and other
organs. We Care Health Services represented hospital is the only center in
the country which has specialists trained in transplantation of pancreas from
cadaver donors as well as from the living related donors. This form of transplantation
is usually done along with a kidney transplantation to treat diabetes and
kidney failure in one.
