Organ Transplant India
Mediserve also offers facilities of Multi organ transplantation. The medical tour company has association with several famous medical institutes of the country. Following are organ transplant treatment offered by Mediserve.
Facilities and expertise available
- Liver Transplantation for children and adults with acute and chronic liver failure /cirrhosis
- Living related Liver transplant and Cadaveric transplant
- Pediatric hepatology service including transplant and biliary surgery
- Adult Hepatology and Gastroenterology
- Renal Transplantation in adults and children including Lap Donor Nephrectomy
- Complex vascular and peritoneal access procedures
- Complex Hepatobiliary Surgery
Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Surgery
Hospitals for Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Surgery have vast experience in an extensive range of surgery conditions that effect the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and the biliary tree including tumours involving these organs, jaundice caused by benign blockage of the bile duct including stones. Liver surgery is considered as a complex surgery and only the experts of the treatment perform this surgery.
What means liver failure?
An infected of acute liver failure stays completely normal but he or she can suddenly develop jaundice and goes into coma while chronic liver disease or cirrhosis can cause conditions of Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C infection. Chronic failure generally occur due to excess consumption of alcohol, diseases such as primary Bellary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and a range of inherited metabolic conditions.
How it can be treated?
With modern medicine, it is now possible to treat many such cases successfully. While a proportion of patients with acute liver failure can recover by receiving treatment in specialized liver ICUs. Medicines and other measures such as draining ascites and stopping the blood vomiting by endoscopy are useful adjuncts to treatment of liver disease. Acute liver failure unresponsive to medical treatment requires a liver transplantation.
Nowadays, a number of latest medicines are introduced in the medical field, helping in making the treatment successful. The cases of acute liver can be recovered by receiving treatment in specialized liver intensive care units. However, some patients that are suffering from acute liver failure can require liver transplantations which are also possible in India at lowest possible price.
India provides successful transplant for cirrhosis
Liver transplantation is the only option for end stage liver diseases. It is also an accepted treatment for liver failure in west. India has now received a wide recognition in the field of liver transplantation as these types of operations are routinely preformed in several hospitals of the country
Hospitals associating with Mediserve are backed by the state of the art facilities for child, adult and aged patients suffering from liver failure. In India, liver transplantation surgeries are performed with equivalent results if compared with UK and USA.
Who can be a donor?
Liver transplant requires a suitable donor. There are two types of donors:
a) Patients who have been declared as brain dead, whose family members have given consent for retrieval of organs for transplantation. Unfortunately this donation is rare in India with average 5-6 donations /year in our centre.
b) The main group is from living relation of the patient and has matched blood group.
No. of liver transplants in the last 3 years at Delhi: 201
- Total no. of liver transplants done at Delhi: 279
- Success rate: 89.5%.
The department at Apollo boasts of a dedicated transplant ICU manned by trained doctors and nursing staff and fully equipped with state-of-the-art ventilators and monitors, high-tech operating rooms with anaesthesia staff trained with liver transplant and round-the-clock investigation facilities including an advanced Transplant Immunology laboratory support and drug level assays. Specialists who are well trained in management of complex diseases especially requiring multispecialty tertiary level care are available under a single roof at this centre.
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Service
- Facilities for investigations and nutritional rehabilitation and management of patients with acute and chronic liver disease.
- Liver transplantation for end stage liver disease due to diverse etiologies such as extra hepatic biliary atresia progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, fulminant hepatic failure and metabolic diseases like tyrosinemia and Wilson
- Facilities for post operative care and followup of liver transplant patients.
In addition the department offers a comprehensive gastroenterology and nutrition service including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy.
Histopathology and Immunology Testing:
Our services are also available for Histopathology and Immunology Testing procedures. These tests required for transplantation. Hospitals in our associations have trained pathologists providing support for the accurate diagnosis of rejection and renal pathology.
- Histopathology with specialized stains for Immuno Florescence and Immunochemistry
- HLA and cross matching
- C4d Antibodies staining
- Monitoring drug levels after transplant
To receive an approximate idea of cost and other information regarding treatments, please contact us.
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Medical Treatment - Organ Transplant India