Author's Previous Patients
Landmark operations and some firsts to the author's credit - patients'
experiences
In Liver Transplantation in India, the author has the following
firsts to his credit as the Chief Surgeon assisted by other members
of the team:
First successful reduced cadaveric
liver transplant in a child in India
"SGRH performs India's first
successful reduced cadaveric liver transplant in a child Gift of
life saves Aarti…….."
Nine year old Aarti, India's first child to receive a successful
transplant using a reduced liver from a brain dead person, was discharged
from Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital 4 weeks after her transplant
on 15 August 2003 and is now enjoying the life of a healthy 9 year
old. This was a pioneering effort of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital's transplant
team comprising of surgeons Dr. A.S. Soin, Dr. S. Gupta and Dr.
S. Nundy, hepatologists Dr. N. Mohan and Dr. S. Saigal, anaesthetists
Dr. V. Vohra and Dr. P. Shastri, and intensive care experts Dr.
K.C. Chugh and Dr. A. Sachdeva.
The success of this operation ushers in a new era in liver transplantation
in India as it makes it possible to perform transplants in children
using cadaveric livers when the parents or other near relatives
are unable to donate a part of their liver. With this technology,
it would now be possible to transplant two persons using two halves
of a single liver from a brain dead (cadaver) person. Aarti's life
was saved by the generosity of a family who decided to donate their
relative's organs after he died from brain death at AIIMS on 14
August. In a sense, the person lives on in Aarti. Aarti, a student
of class 2, will be able to resume school in about 2 months' time.
She is looking forward to that and enjoying her life together with
her 4 siblings.
Aarti and her family have decided to donate their organs after
death and hopefully give back to the society some of the joy they
have had from this gift of life. She wants more people to come forward
and donate organs so that other unfortunate children can be saved
from liver failure deaths. More than 2 lac people including at least
30,000 children die every year in India from organ failure. Many
of these can be saved by cadaveric organ donation.
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