{"id":15816,"date":"2019-07-02T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=15816"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:52:58","slug":"liver-transplant-facility-at-srm-hospital-a-boon-to-local-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=15816","title":{"rendered":"Liver Transplant Facility at SRM Hospital, A Boon to local residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liver Transplant Facility at SRM Hospital, A Boon to local residents<\/p>\n

Chennai, July 2, 2019: The first deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) has been successfully performed at the state-of-the-art SRM Medical College Hospital, Kattankulathur near Chennai by doctors from Gleneagles Global health city.<\/p>\n

The patient, a 46-year-old male from Andhra Pradesh was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease and was under medical management initially but later this failed. Due to the decompensated liver disease status and failure of medical therapy, doctors at SRM medical college hospital advised the patient and family members the urgent need for liver transplantation. As the patient did not have matching liver donor from his family he was listed for deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) and was kept on optimal medical management.<\/p>\n

The 6-hour-long procedure was performed as part of the collaboration between SRM medical college hospital, Kattankulathur and Gleneagles Global Health City following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by them. Gleneagles Global Health City, the largest facility of Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Chennai has inked the MoU to support the liver transplantation program.<\/p>\n

Dr. Vivek Vij, Director \u2013 Liver Transplant & HPB surgery, Gleneagles Global Health City and his team performed deceased donor liver transplantation. Post-transplant the patient made remarkable recovery and was discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the partnership with SRM, Dr. Joy Varghese \u2013 Director Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology said, \u201cThe association will see Gleneagles Global Health City, Chennai bring its top-notch emergency services in liver disease and liver transplant expertise to SRM medical college hospital which will benefit the local residents. We are extremely delighted, as we successfully performed first DDLT at SRM hospital post our association.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the patient is diagnosed with Chronic Liver diseases, initial treatment of optimal medical therapy can help the patient to stabilize but on decompensating, advanced medical therapy will not work and the only option is liver transplantation,\u201d said Dr. Vivek Vij. \u201cJaundice, fatigue, abdominal distension is the main symptoms suggestive of liver disease. Other symptoms are blood vomiting, panning black stools and altered sensorium\u201d added, Dr. Vivek Vij<\/p>\n

Speaking on the occasion Ram Natesan – COO SRM Medical health sciences & Research said \u201cWe are particularly pleased to partner with Gleneagles Global Health city, Chennai for the Liver transplant program and would look forward to a long term association with them. To strengthen the organ transplant program at SRM we are launching a new dedicated OT complex with ICU\u2019s in SRM medical college hospital exclusively for multi-organ transplants by August\u201919. We will soon be setting up a heart failure clinic and doing our first Heart transplant in the coming months\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Sundaram \u2013 Dean for SRM Medical college hospital said \u201cWe are very happy that we have aligned with Gleneagles Global Health. Hope to do more service to the poor and ailing\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liver Transplant Facility at SRM Hospital, A Boon to local residents Chennai, July 2, 2019: The first deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) has been successfully performed at the state-of-the-art SRM Medical College Hospital, Kattankulathur near Chennai by doctors from Gleneagles Global health city. The patient, a 46-year-old male from Andhra Pradesh was diagnosed with end-stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15818,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions\/15818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}