Children Liver Transplant
Children Liver Transplant: Pediatric Liver Transplant
Our Pediatric Liver Transplant Service is run by specially trained and experienced senior specialists in the following disciplines
Transplant Surgery
Two senior surgeons (including the author) each with nearly 15 years experience in complex liver surgery in children such as liver resections, partial liver transplants, biliary strictures and shunt surgery.
Hepatology
A senior Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist (specialist physician in children liver diseases and transplantation)
Anesthesia
Two senior Pediatric anesthetists
ICU team
A team of 5 pediatric intensivists for post transplant ICU care
8 specially trained pediatric ICU nurses
The core team is also supported by a Pediatric Psychologist and a Pediatric Nutritionist.
Photos of some of the children transplanted by Dr. Soin
One year old Sheryar, the youngest patient to undergo a successful
liver transplant in India, 6 weeks after his operation.
Sania with her aunt, the liver donor and her father 2 months after her transplant
which was done for a tumour that had replaced her entire liver
From a state of pre-coma before surgery, Lamu was completely transformed after her
liver transplant into a lovely playful child who became the darling of the Liver Unit.
She is seen here with her parents 3 weeks after the operation
8 year old Ayush Chawla, who was transplanted due to sudden terminal acute liver failure,
with his mother Preeti, the liver donor and his father a year after his life-saving transplant.
4 year old Safi from Lahore received India’s first bloodless liver transplant in 2004.
He is seen here with his parents and Chacha (the liver donor).
Sharmila’s liver for a transplant that saved him from a rare but fatal
liver disorder called Tyrosinemia
