Thirty-eight-year-old IT professional from Bengaluru Surendranath is returning home with a new lease of life after undergoing liver transplant less than two weeks ago in Coimbatore. A chain of surgeries was performed for the successful completion of the transplant for the patient who suffered from budd-chiari syndrome – block in blood supply from the liver to heart.
C. Palanivelu, Chairman of GEM Hospital and Research Centre where the transplant was performed, said that liver transplant was the final ray of hope for the patient as he was not responding well for medication. Surendranath was hospitalised four times in as many months as he started developing infections.
Meanwhile, a 52-year-old leading industrialist from Tirupur was declared brain dead at PSG Hospital in Coimbatore.
Doctors of GEM Hospital retrieved his liver and then rushed it to Gem Hospital in four minutes. The patient and his pregnant wife Anitha flew to the city the same night (May 16) and was getting ready for the transplant.
Doctors of GEM hospital and Medanta Liver Transplant Institutes, Gurgaon, then performed the transplant in six hours.
After observation he started to Bengaluru with his family on Friday. “He will be able to resume work from home in a week and can go to office in a month,” Dr. Palanivelu said.
He said that the hospital invested Rs. 3 crore for equipment for the liver transplant facility. P. Senthilnathan, of GEM Hospital, said that doctors and nurses of the hospital were trained for one-and-a-half years by experts from Medanta before this transplant was performed.
A.S. Soin, Group Chairman of all Medanta Liver Transplant Institutes in India, while addressing newsmen in Coimbatore (via video conferencing) said that GEM Hospital will soon begin live liver transplants through laparoscopy with the help of their institute.
