MADURAI: Doctors at a private hospital in Madurai successfully performed a liver transplantation for a 35-year-old man. A part of the liver was donated by his 53-year-old living mother. Both the donor and recipient have made full recovery and developed no complications.
Generally, liver transplantation can be done from liver received from a brain-dead donor or from a living donor. The team of doctors at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, successfully performed the transplantation after it was decided that the 35-year-old patient from Trichy who had his liver damaged due to chronic alcohol intake, needed a liver transplantation for his long-term survival.
His mother was willing to donate part of her liver and she was also found to be fit for partial liver donation.
The right lobe of the liver was removed from the donor and transplanted to the recipient, following which, doctors, continued the operation for about 15 hours.
A team of doctors comprising Dr Manish Varma, Dr Madhusudhanan J, Dr Anand Ramamurthy, Dr Manjunath and others carried out the complex transplantation surgery. Another team of doctors including Dr Rajesh Prabhu, Dr Padma Prakash, Dr Ganesh and Dr John Robert also managed the postoperative period.
The donor was discharged around seven days after the surgery and the recipient was discharged two weeks after the surgery. He has been doing well following the surgery with no pain, swelling and no hassles.
"I appreciate the team of doctors and nurses for this effort. Our hospital performs adult, child, living donor and cadaveric liver transplantation. Also, this transplantation was performed under the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS)," said Dr Rohini Sridhar, chief operating officer, Apollo Hospitals, Madurai Division.