Surgeons of Apollo Hospitals conducted three liver transplant surgeries and a kidney transplantation, all within a span of 40 hours, last month. Of the three patients who received liver, one received the organ from a brain dead victim in Visakhapatnam where the organ had to be flown-in in a commercial flight and transplanted immediately.

Mahendra Kumar Kar, Ketan Ramesh Patel and Dnyandev Warule underwent liver transplantations while Kareemullah Khan underwent kidney transplantation. Thanks to the Jeevandan programme, Kar, Patel and Khan received the organs from brain dead victims while Warule received a small part of liver from his son, Suresh Warule.

“It was a medical and logistical challenge because the liver had to be brought from Visakhapatnam. Mr. Patel had developed serious blood stream infection. We took the help of several experts to settle him down before transplantation,” said liver transplant surgeon Manish C. Varma.

While Mr. Kar, an NRI in US, came here for treatment, Mr. Warule is a farmer from Maharashtra. “We have a success rate of 99 per cent when it comes to liver transplants and 100 per cent success rate with live donor liver transplantation,” Dr. Varma claimed.

Mr. Khan (43), who underwent kidney transplantation, was a known diabetic and hypertension patient for the past eight years. “These were very complicated cases but we managed to complete the surgeries within 40 hours,” he added.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – November 06th, 2014