Successful Liver and kidney transplants conducted at Osmania General Hospital

Through organ donations, we undertook two cadaver liver transplants, four cadaver kidney transplants, four cornea donations and skin donations for burns patients,” OGH authorities said

Hyderabad: In the last two months, the transplant surgeons at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) have successfully conducted two each cadaver liver and kidney transplants, in addition to taking up in-house organ donations from declared brain dead patients.

On August 29, the transplant teams conducted a cadaver liver transplant surgery on 45-year-old Dr Ravi Sundar, Associate Professor, General Surgery, Suryapet Medical College, and a native of Nalgonda, who was admitted to OGH with full blown liver failure due to a viral infection.

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He was very sick with very high bilirubin with coagulopathy (blood not clotting), drowsy (hepatic encephalopathy). In absence of a fit donor in the family, the doctors undertook cadaver liver transplantation to save his life.

Following liver transplantation, Dr Ravi Sundar recovered and was recently discharged, Head, Surgical Gastroenterology, Dr Ch Madhusudhan said.

Transplant surgeons also did a liver transplant on a 46-year-old farmer Bathina Narender, a resident of Vallampatla, Siddipet, who has decompensated chronic liver disease due to viral hepatitis. The cadaver liver transplant surgery was conducted on September 18 and the patient is recovering.

Apart from the liver transplants, the Nephrology and Urology departments of OGH collaborated to successfully conduct two cadaver kidney transplants, the hospital said.
In the last one month, the OGH undertook two in-house organ donations and one more organ donation is in the process.

Through organ donations, we undertook two cadaver liver transplants, four cadaver kidney transplants, four cornea donations and skin donations for burns patients,” OGH authorities said.

The donor skin from brain dead donors was collected and preserved in the OGH skin bank for burn patients. While two cadaver kidney transplants were undertaken at OGH, the kidneys were allocated to needy patients in other hospitals under Jeevandan.

The liver transplant team was led by Dr Madhusudhan while the Nephrology team that was involved in kidney transplants was led by Dr Manisha Sahai.

Other senior doctors who were involved and included Dr Wasif Ali, Dr Sudarshan Reddy, Dr Abhimanyu singh (HOD/Anaesthesia), Prof Chandra shakar(Anaesthesia), Dr.Madhavi (prof of anaesthesia), Dr.Raghu(Prof anaesthesia), Dr Lakshmi Narayana, Dr Mallikarjun, Dr Kiran Mayi and others.