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Apollo Hospitals created a milestone by becoming the first hospital in th country to reach the 500-mark for
patients from a single foreign country. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals claims to have completed 500 liver
transplants on patients from Pakistan
with a success rate of over 90 per cent. Announcing the achievement on
Wednesday, Prof. Anupam Sibal,
group medical director and senior
paediatric gastroenterologist, Apollo
Hospitals, said: “We have created a
milestone by becoming the first hospital in the country to reach the
500-mark for patients from a single
foreign country. Pakistani patients
constitute 29 per cent of the liver
transplant performed at Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi.” Speaking on the occasion, Prof.
Subash Gupta, chief liver transplant
surgeon at the hospital, said: “Our
500th Pakistani patient is two-year-
old Nalain Aziz from Lahore. He
developed jaundice on the seventh day and was diagnosed to have extra
hepatic biliary atresia. Later despite
being hospitalised in Pakistan multiple
times the jaundice worsened and he
also had bleeding from the swollen
veins in his food pipe. He was referred for a liver transplant which is the only
treatment for liver failure.” The child had deep jaundice and
features of end-stage liver failure. He
was detected to have a urinary tract
infection that was treated and
thereafter he was taken up for a liver
transplant after detailed assessments. “His blood group, O+, matched with
that of his mother who became his
liver donor. Both mother and son have
recovered well. He underwent the
transplant in March and was
discharged this month. Nalain’s liver function tests are normal and he is
ready to go back to Lahore to
celebrate his next birthday,” added Dr.
Gupta.
Apollo completes 500 liver transplants on Pakistani patients - The Hindu: Mobile Edition
patients from a single foreign country. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals claims to have completed 500 liver
transplants on patients from Pakistan
with a success rate of over 90 per cent. Announcing the achievement on
Wednesday, Prof. Anupam Sibal,
group medical director and senior
paediatric gastroenterologist, Apollo
Hospitals, said: “We have created a
milestone by becoming the first hospital in the country to reach the
500-mark for patients from a single
foreign country. Pakistani patients
constitute 29 per cent of the liver
transplant performed at Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi.” Speaking on the occasion, Prof.
Subash Gupta, chief liver transplant
surgeon at the hospital, said: “Our
500th Pakistani patient is two-year-
old Nalain Aziz from Lahore. He
developed jaundice on the seventh day and was diagnosed to have extra
hepatic biliary atresia. Later despite
being hospitalised in Pakistan multiple
times the jaundice worsened and he
also had bleeding from the swollen
veins in his food pipe. He was referred for a liver transplant which is the only
treatment for liver failure.” The child had deep jaundice and
features of end-stage liver failure. He
was detected to have a urinary tract
infection that was treated and
thereafter he was taken up for a liver
transplant after detailed assessments. “His blood group, O+, matched with
that of his mother who became his
liver donor. Both mother and son have
recovered well. He underwent the
transplant in March and was
discharged this month. Nalain’s liver function tests are normal and he is
ready to go back to Lahore to
celebrate his next birthday,” added Dr.
Gupta.
Apollo completes 500 liver transplants on Pakistani patients - The Hindu: Mobile Edition