Liver Transplant in India

 

An operation called a liver transplant involves removing the sick liver and replacing it with a healthy liver. We do live-related donor liver transplants as well as cadaver donor liver transplants for both adults and children. Sahyadri Hospitals established a cutting-edge Center for Organ Transplantation in Pune with the sole purpose of making transplants inexpensive and available to everyone. It quickly gained a reputation as one of Western India's most dependable liver transplant centres.

Marlin’s Centers for Liver Transplant and Biliary Sciences are the most prestigious centres in India. Our hospitals offer treatment for liver, pancreas, and biliary system. A liver transplant, also called a hepatic transplant, is a surgical process to replace an unhealthy liver. A liver that no longer functions properly is replaced with a whole or partial healthy liver. 

Our multidisciplinary team of medical professionals includes surgeons, intensivists, transplant hepatologists, anaesthetists, radiologists, transfusion medicine experts, endocrinologists, dieticians, clinical psychologists, and counsellors. Collectively they have more than 25 years of experience.

·       Who needs a liver transplant?

Patients who are suffering from last-stage of liver disease require a liver transplant surgery. The following conditions could result in end-stage liver disease:

·       Cirrhosis

·       Acute liver failure

·       Biliary atresia

·       Hepatitis virus

·       Metabolic disorders

·       First-stage liver cancer

·       FAuto-immune Hepatitis

Types of Liver Transplant?

There are two types of liver transplant

Living Donor Transplant:

As the liver may regenerate, it is possible to transplant a portion of liver from a living donor. The donor’s and recipient's livers both regenerate in 4 to 8 weeks.

Deceased Donor:

Liver transplants from deceased donors are performed on patients who have passed away due to cardiac arrest or brain death.

·       Who can be a donor?

Let me describe two very important things you must have to know regarding liver transplants in India.

·       -Living donor for a liver transplant must be a nearby relative characterized as a ‘close relative’ in the THO Act. This is characterized as the life partner, guardians, kin, grandparents, and children of the patients. The rule is donor should be either from a lineage of the father side or mother side.

·       - The following criteria that the donor has to fulfill for liver transplant surgery:

·       --He/she needs to be willing to donate.

·       --His/her age should be between 18 and 55 years.

·       --The weight has to be between 50 to 85kg.

·       --He/she has to be a family member only.

·       --Should match the recipient's blood group.

·       --The liver and other body organs should function well.

·       --A sufficient volume of the liver should be available for the recipient when half of the liver of the donor is used.

·       --The donor's body mass index (BMI) must be under 35.

• What conditions could make someone ineligible to donate?
• Alcoholism
• HIV Infection
• Drug addicts
• Hepatitis Infections
• History of recent cancer
• Patients with lung or heart problems
• Who are being treated for psychiatric illness

Success Rate of Liver Transplant

Currently, the success rate of liver transplant in India is more than 95% and a ten-year survival is approximately 80%.

Web link: - https://www.marlinmedicalassistance.com/liver-transplant/

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