Liver Diseases and Liver Transplant

Dr. Ashish Khare 

Liver Diseases and Liver Transplant

Dhanwantari CENTRE FOR LIVER DISEASE & TRANSPLANTATION (SCLDT)

Liver Transplant involves a surgical procedure removing the whole or part of the Liver from a deceased or living donor and planting it in a patient suffering from an end stage Liver disease, after removing the diseased Liver.

The Dhanwantary Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation at Dhanwantary Hospital, Jaipur comprises of Liver Transplant Surgeons, Gastroenterologists, Anesthetists, Intensivists, Diagnostic Radiologists, Psychiatrists, Interventional Radiologists, Histopathologists, Clinical Microbiologists & Infectious Disease Specialists, Nephrologists, Cardiologists, Pulmonologists, Endocrinologists, Dentists, Gynecologists, Transplant Coordinators, Clinical Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, Dieticians, Physiotherapists, Counselors, Specialized Nurses and Quality Control Staff who have exhaustive experience in the management of Gastrointestinal, Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic diseases. The mission of the team is to provide optimum and reliable treatment in a cost-effective manner.

Facilities

The hospital houses state- of- the- art facilities capable of working @ 24x7. The SCLDT team has the distinction of being one the most experienced in the region. The department deals with the entire spectrum of diseases of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas requiring surgical treatment and is one of the few centers in the Gujarat specialized to perform living donor liver transplantation and Cadaver Liver Transplant. Our doctors have worked at some of the best centers across the India and have vast experience in managing patients with liver disease and performing Liver Transplantation. A competent nursing and technical support team ensures optimum and uncompromising patient care.

A typical Liver Transplant ICU unit has separate cubicles with Hepa/ laminar flow. The team is ably backed by dedicated Physiotherapists, Dieticians & ICU Staff.

We have vast experience of being the lead surgeons in a Liver Transplants. They have established a successful transplant program which caters to both adult and pediatric patients with End- Stage Liver Disease , at par with the very best centres in the world.

Liver Surgery

• Major Hepatectomy for liver cancer
• Complex liver resections for hilar
• Cholangiocarcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, and Liver Metastases
• Caudate lobe resections
• Parenchyma preserving liver resections (Posterior Sectorectomy, Bisegmentectomy, Atypical Resections)
• Staged procedures (including interventional radiology and liver resection) for management of Colorectal

Liver Metastases

• Liver resection for Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases

Pancreatic Surgery

• Whipple’s procedure
• Complex pancreatic resections
• Surgery for chronic pancreatitis
• Surgery for Cystic Pancreatic Tumours