Docs on the King George’s Medical College (KGMU) right here carried out two liver transplants inside 24 hours. Whereas one among them was from a dwelling donor, the opposite was from a brain-dead affected person, which, the medical doctors claimed, was performed for the primary time within the state in such a brief interval.
Liver was harvested from a 58-year-old resident of Rajajipuram who was admitted to the KGMU Trauma Centre after a highway accident, and has been on ventilator help. On Monday, he was declared brain-dead after which authorities counselled the household for organ donation.
The surgical gastroenterology workforce that carried out the transplants was led by Prof Abhijit Chandra (HOD, Dept of Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant), Dr. Utkarsh Srivastava, Dr. Gurana Krishna Rao, Dr. Ravindra Budhwani, Dr. Yash Vardhan Sinha & all Residents Docs together with Dr. Rohit, Dr. Sanjay, Dr. Deeban, Dr. Arun, Dr. Dhruv, Dr. Ramraj, Dr. Akash, Dr. Adiveeth, Dr. Julie and Peeyush Shrivastava.
“Gratitude to the donor household can’t be expressed in phrases. There’s no higher present a human can provide to a different. The recipient was affected by liver failure since very lengthy,” mentioned Prof Chandra.
Up to now, 30 liver transplants (23 from dwelling donors and seven from deceased) have been carried out at KGMU, the medical doctors mentioned.