CHENNAI: A team of surgeons from a private hospital in the city crossed another milestone, performing five transplants simultaneously in a marathon session of 12 hours recently.
Doctors from Global Hospitals transplanted two kidneys and three lobes of liver to five people at one go. While four patients benefited from a deceased donor, one patient received a part of liver from a living donor. "This is also the first time we have successfully performed a split liver surgery and transplanted it in two adults against the norm of giving it to an adult and a child," said liver transplant surgeon Dr Mohammed Rela.
Ten days ago, a liver transplant team consisting of 11 surgeons and a kidney transplant team with seven surgeons started work. Doctors harvested two kidneys, a liver, heart and lungs from a middle-aged donor. "He had health complications and also suffered from mild renal dysfunction. We withheld one kidney for an inpatient transplant and put the other kidney in the common pool but none of the other centres wanted it. So we used it for one of our patients in a desperate need of a new kidney. It was his second renal transplant," said urologist Dr Muthu Veeramani. He added that the surgical team believed that the renal dysfunction would be corrected once the kidneys were transplanted. "Now the patients who received the kidneys are stable," he said.
Dr Rela said, "We split the liver of the deceased donor and transplanted the right and left lobe in two people. The idea behind this attempt is maximum utilisation of organs in a minimum time frame," he said. He added that the backbone of the surgeries was timing, skill and precision of the surgical teams. "We began at 7am and completed eight surgeries, including five transplants, by 7pm," he said.
For more information on Sonoclot, Thromboelastography in Liver Transplant India, please follow: www.lifediagnostica.com/sonoclot
Doctors from Global Hospitals transplanted two kidneys and three lobes of liver to five people at one go. While four patients benefited from a deceased donor, one patient received a part of liver from a living donor. "This is also the first time we have successfully performed a split liver surgery and transplanted it in two adults against the norm of giving it to an adult and a child," said liver transplant surgeon Dr Mohammed Rela.
Ten days ago, a liver transplant team consisting of 11 surgeons and a kidney transplant team with seven surgeons started work. Doctors harvested two kidneys, a liver, heart and lungs from a middle-aged donor. "He had health complications and also suffered from mild renal dysfunction. We withheld one kidney for an inpatient transplant and put the other kidney in the common pool but none of the other centres wanted it. So we used it for one of our patients in a desperate need of a new kidney. It was his second renal transplant," said urologist Dr Muthu Veeramani. He added that the surgical team believed that the renal dysfunction would be corrected once the kidneys were transplanted. "Now the patients who received the kidneys are stable," he said.
Dr Rela said, "We split the liver of the deceased donor and transplanted the right and left lobe in two people. The idea behind this attempt is maximum utilisation of organs in a minimum time frame," he said. He added that the backbone of the surgeries was timing, skill and precision of the surgical teams. "We began at 7am and completed eight surgeries, including five transplants, by 7pm," he said.
For more information on Sonoclot, Thromboelastography in Liver Transplant India, please follow: www.lifediagnostica.com/sonoclot
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