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Liver transplantation is the only treatment modality for patients succumbing to acute or chronic liver failure. Unlike in kidney failure, where an alternate option of dialysis is available there is no substitute to maintain a liver failure patient for lengthy periods. A liver transplant is not a simple step to take, but it can save your life. Survival rates after liver transplant operations have improved remarkably over the past several years. Currently over 80 to 90% of people survive liver transplantation and enjoy good quality life subsequently.

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Liver transplantation - second largest center in India
AIMS is the top liver transplantation center in India with over 80% success rate. AIMS pioneered liver transplantation in Kerala. In 2009, 56 liver transplantations were performed here. Our Liver transplant program has performed more than 60 transplants in the past 12 months. Thus far we have transplanted 5 cadaveric and 55 Live Donor Livers with a success rate of 80%. This includes 10 pediatric patients and 15 patients with fulminant hepatic failure.

Liver Transplant patients are treated by an integrated multidisciplinary team comprising off GI and Transplant Surgeons, Hepatologists , Surgical Critical Care Specialists, Interventional Radilogists and other Supporting services such as radiology , transfusion services , infectious diseases, microbiology , histopathology , nephrology and dedicated ICU staff. Patients are cared for in a Well equipped 8 bedded Transplant ICU manned by specially trained staff.

  Indications for liver transplant include:

  Acute Liver filure
 
  • Due to poisons or Hepatitis
  •   Chronic Liver Diseases (Cirrhosis)
     
  • Alcohol induced
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  • Cryptogenic
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  • Viral Hepatitis Related
  •   Liver Tumours
     
    There are two primary options for liver donation.
    • Liver Donation from a patient who has undergone brain death. (Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation, DDLT)
    • Donation of Part of the liver from another person (Living Donor Liver Transplantation LDLT). At AIMS we perform both DDLT and LDLT, However fisrt degree relatives are preferred as donors for LDLT.

    Living Donor - Living-donor transplantation entails the removal of a portion of the donor's healthy liver into another person who is in need of transplantation (recipient). A family member, usually a parent, sibling or adult child (above the age of 18 years) or someone emotionally close, such as a spouse, may volunteer to donate a portion of their healthy liver.

    This procedure is made possible by the fact that the donor’s body needs only about a third of the liver’s volume for its daily function and the liver's unique ability to regenerate. After transplantation, the partial livers of both the donor and recipient will grow and remodel to form complete organs, usually within three months.

    Deceased Donor (Cadaveric Donation) – The donor is a person who is diagnosed as brain dead whose family volunteers to donate the organ for transplantation. People who receive cadaver donors wait on the DDLT waiting list list until a suitable donor becomes available. Waiting times vary depending on the availability of donors as well as the prospective recipient’s health.

    For Furtther Information contact
    Email - livertransplant@aims.amrita.edu, gisurgery@aims.amrita.edu
    Liver Transplant Co-Ordinator on +91 97450 00502 (08.30 to 17:30)

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