Tanzanian man undergoes multi-organ transplantation at Apollo Hospitals

The complex surgery was performed by Dr Manish Varma, Chief Transplant Surgeon, Dr Ravi Andrews, Nephrologist and Dr Naveen Polavarapu, Chief Transplant Hepatologist at Apollo Hospitals

Hyderabad: The multi-organ transplant team of Apollo Hospitals has performed a combined liver and kidney transplant, harvested from two different living donors, on a 57-year-old Tanzanian patient, Gabriel Ceaser Sisa.

Gabriel Ceaser Sisa was suffering from end-stage liver and kidney ailments and needed urgent multiple organ transplantation. Being a foreign national, the patient was not eligible for Jeevandan cadaver donation initiative. As a result, the transplant surgeons had to search for matching living-related organ donor transplantation.

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The brother and nephew of Gabriel Ceaser Sisa, who had accompanied him from Tanzania, had volunteered to become donors. However, the brother was found medically unfit to donate either liver or kidney. With doctors unable to find same blood group liver donor, his 52-year-old wife with a different blood group donated a slice of her liver while the 29-year-old nephew donated kidney.

Gabriel Ceaser Sisa underwent the transplant surgeries, which took nearly 23 hours to perform, on February 12. The marathon surgery was conducted by three teams of surgeons who operated simultaneously in three operation theatres. The kidney donor was discharged on the fourth day, liver donor on the sixth day and the recipient after sixteen days after the surgery on February 28.

The complex surgery was performed by Dr Manish Varma, Chief Transplant Surgeon, Dr Ravi Andrews, Nephrologist and Dr Naveen Polavarapu, Chief Transplant Hepatologist at Apollo Hospitals along with other transplant team.

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