IEP Chandigarh
The Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, PGIMER has recently successfully conducted its second Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplant on a 47-year-old male patient from Jammu on 29/01/23; who was suffering from simultaneous kidney and liver failure. He was able to sustain his life with support dialysis and his liver was getting supportive care. He was admitted on 28th January 2023 and operated the next day. The patient had an uneventful recovery and was discharged on 15/02/23. His total stay in the hospital was 16 days. He had no postoperative complication of any kind related to the procedure. He was discharged with normal liver and kidney functions. He has been prescribed an adequate immunosuppressant and is on follow-up. His last follow-up was 1 week back and he is ready to resume his job as a Professor of English Literature at the University of Jammu under the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Previously we conducted First Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplant in our department on 14th June 2022, in a 24-year-old male from Himachal Pradesh. He was also suffering from simultaneous liver and kidney failure due to congenital hepatic fibrosis and end-stage renal disease. He was sustaining his life on regular renal dialysis and support for the liver. He is on regular follow-up and maintaining his kidney as well as liver function on immunosuppressant.
Both these patients are free of dialysis and have no need for any other support for the liver as of now. Before the transplant, both of these patients had a very poor quality of life and were dependent on others to perform daily activities and earn a livelihood.
We want your support in helping society by spreading the news and starting a campaign to make people aware of the program. It is also important to mention here that the total cost of a liver transplant at our institute is not even one-fourth of the total expenditure in other private centers. We are actively supported by the Dept. of hepatology, Kidney transplant, interventional radiology, biochemistry, histopathology, transfusion medicine, hospital administration, and Microbiology to help us as and when required.
Our department senior residents and staff nurses of the department work tirelessly to keep the program running successfully. As a public sector and institute of national importance, it is our responsibility to make this program available to the common man so that even the poorest of the poor could dream of a liver transplant being done.
Our team Dr. T D Yadav, Dr. Vikas Gupta, Dr. Harjeet Singh, all senior residents, and IR Staff nurses led by Mrs. Gurmeet Kaur of Dept of surgical gastroenterology PGIMER, Chandigarh
