- Performs 4 complex living donor liver transplants within a month successfully
- Launch of Liver Helpline number 75503 75503 from March 15th 2021
- Free tele consultation every weekday 3-4 pm from March 15th 2021
- Free Consultation every weekday from 4-5pm at MGM Healthcare
Chennai, March 8, 2021: MGM Healthcare, a leading quaternary care super-specialty hospital, has setup ‘MGM Institute of Liver Transplant and HPB surgery’ in Chennai. This will allow patients from south India and across the worldto have access to exclusive liver care facilities at the institute.
It is helmed by renowned transplant and HPB surgeon Dr. Thiagarajan S, (Director, Institute of Liver Diseases, Tr ansplant & HPB surgery, MGM Healthcare and Dr. Ravi R, Senior Consultant & Academic Director and ably su pp orted by Dr Kartik Mathivanan, Associate Director and a highly specialised multidisciplinary team of liver cri tic al care and anasthesia specialists, pediatric and adult hepatologists, diagnostic and interventional radiologi sts, pathologists and others with a cumulative previous experience of more than 3,500 liver transplants.
The liver institute of MGM Healthcare shared the early results of the liver transplant program with a 100% succ ess rate. One such patient, a 42 year-old gentleman from Tirunelveli district suffering from acute on chronic liver failure, deeply jaundiced, presented with a life threatening food pipe bleeding episode and coma was recently admitted to the institute. His condition was stabilized within a period of 3 days and the expert team performed a successful emergency right lobe living donor liver transplant and the patient’s wife donated part of her liver for the transplant. The Tamil Nadu State Government swiftly came to his aid and through Chief Minister Health In surance Scheme, a financial approval was granted for the treatment within 24 hours. The institute has succe ssfully performed similar living donor liver transplants for 3 other patients within one monthDr. Karthik Mathi vanan , Senior Consultant & Associate Director-Liver & Multi-Organ Transplant and HPB Surgery, MGM Health care; Dr S. Thiagarajan , Director, Institute of Liver Diseases; Dr. Ravi R, MD, DM (Gastro), Academic Director-Interventional Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Transplantation & HPB surgery; Dr Dinesh Babu, Senior Con sultant, Anaesthesia MGM Healthcare; Dr Nivas C, Senior Consultant, Anaesthesia MGM Healthcare; Mr Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare