Thursday 26 February 2015

Successful Liver Transplantation in India

A liver transplant is an operation to remove a damaged or diseased liver and replace it with a healthy one.  Liver transplantation can be done with a part of a liver from a living donor or from a deceased donor. Although liver transplant is considered as the last and final option for patients with last stage of liver disease and with that hope Liver transplantation in India was developed as an efficient and established treatment for last stage liver disease. The first pediatric liver transplantation in India were performed in the beginning of the year 1998 and since then many centers of liver transplant have established for this successful programs it offers liver patients best hope for a second chance at life.


Liver transplant in India has become the boon of life if it is done for the right reason, by the right people and at the right time. With remarkable improvement in the advanced surgical techniques and with improved immunosuppressant more than 90 percent patient recovery and survival rate has become possible in most centers of liver transplant.

 A patient who has undergone a liver transplant can live a normal life in terms of activity, health, food and vigor with some basic precautions. Some anti rejection medicines and cyclic follow up with liver transplant team or hospital will continue to live healthy life.  Comparable to any other international liver transplant centre Liver transplant in India attracts patients from around the world for its successful and safe treatment.


Friday 20 February 2015

Cadaveric Liver Transplantation in India

Human body is made up of many vital organs and good health is defined as the level of metabolic or functional efficiency of a living organism and its ability of to adapt and self-manage when facing physical, social or mental challenges. But for some reasons one of the prominent body organ of human body the liver can become gradually damaged as a result of infection, illness or alcohol.

This damage causes the liver to reach to a critical stage called as the scarred Liver failure which can also led very rapidly as a result of inflammation and death of liver tissue, Cadaveric liver transplantation is end stage option for this kind of liver patients.

Cadaveric liver transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with some or all of a healthy liver from another person. Cadaveric Liver transplantation can be successfully done with living persons liver or deceased person’s liver as declared brain dead but its organs are working. For successful cadaveric liver transplantation some tests, anti rejection medicines, finding a match, complication, and the follow-up with liver transplantation doctor’s team is required.

 The Cadaveric liver transplantation is a complex procedure and the Patient and family members are in a dilemma with many Pros and Cos. But both the donor and recipient grow recovery within few weeks under the doctor’s observation with medicines and precautions.