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From L-R : Mr. Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare_Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan, Director, Institute of Liver Diseases, Transplant and HPB surgery, MGM Healthcare_ Mr.Ragul Gandhi(Patient) along with the donor_ Dr Karthik Mathivanan, Senior Consultant & Associate Director, Institute of Liver Transplant & HPC surgery, MGM Healthcare_ Dr. Ravi, Academic director, Liver Diseases, MGM Healthcare_ Dr Dinesh Babu, Senior Consultant, Anesthesia, MGM Healthcare_ Dr Nivash, Senior consultant, Anesthesia, MGM Healthcare
~ Worlds’ first successful living donor and Asia's First Successful Emergency Liver Transplant in a SARS Covid 19 positive patient with fulminant liver failure
Mumbai, 10th June 2021: MGM Healthcare, a super-specialty hospital in the heart of Chennai city, today announced that it has successfully conducted an emergency liver transplant on 21st May 2021 to treat a 26-year-old COVID-infected patient who was battling fulminant liver failure. It is reported to be the World’s first emergency living donor live transplant for an acute liver failure patient with SARS COVID-19 positivity.
The 26 year old patient Raghul Gandhi, a national level Kabaddi player hailing from Puducherry developed acute liver failure and his condition worsened due to sudden onset of jaundice. He slipped into deep coma within two days after being diagnosed with the disease and had little hope left when he was shifted to MGM Healthcare Chennai. The situation was further complicated when he tested COVID positive and the only positive sign was his tests didn’t show any lung involvement in the chest CT scan.
“We took up the challenge to do the emergency liver transplant bearing in mind the complicated nature of the patient’s health condition, Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan, Director, Institute of Liver Diseases, Transplant and HPB surgery, MGM Healthcare said while elaborating on the case. A liver transplant is only performed on COVID-free end stage liver disease patient or 4-5 weeks post COVID recovery with 2 successive negative RTPCR tests. In Raghul’s case, it was a critical situation and the transplant had to be done within 24 hours or else he would have lost his life. Our rapid liver failure response team sprang into action and his condition was first stabilized with emergency ventilation under PPE protocol. He was then moved to a secluded ICU in accordance with all COVID protocols as he underwent continuous plasma purification, toxin filtration and liver dialysis.
An emergency meeting was called with experts from across the country led by Dr. Ravi, Academic director, Liver Diseases, MGM Healthcare and post telephonic consultations with the Liver Transplant Society of India Secretary, we reached a consensus to conduct emergency liver transplant to save the life of the young sportsman.
Dr. Thiagarajan further added, “Our biggest hindrance came in the form of very limited functioning of cadaveric organ donation system with only one liver donation in the month of May in the entire state of Tamil Nadu. We came up with an innovative solution of emergency related living donor liver transplant in which a part of donor’s liver is transplanted after removal of the diseased liver. In Raghul’s case, two of his family members who were staying with him also tested COVID positive but luckily his own brother who stays 200 km away from Chennai came to his rescue. He immediately rushed to the hospital and he returned COVID negative with good SARS COVID antibody titre which means he had been exposed to COVID infection but had recovered completely from it.
Dr. Karthik Mathivanan, Associate Director, Liver Transplant Surgeon said “The transplant workup procedure which normally takes 3-4 weeks was accelerated at a rapid pace with a 50 member team working round the clock and managed to complete the workup in a record 6 hour time.”
Dr. Thiagarajan and his team conducted the Emergency Liver Transplant within 12 hours and adhered to all the COVID protocols. A bio-bubble was implemented in place to avoid non-mixture of donor and recipient teams, building of separate COVID-proof transport corridors, ICUs, wards and Operation Theatres throughout the entire hospital stay of 15 days for the patient and the team.
Dr. Dinesh Babu and Dr. Nivash , Senior Consultants-Anasthesia, MGM Healthcare said, “We used a scavenging system for the airflow from the ventilators along with the usage of Hepa Filters to keep the air clean in the ICU and in the O.T. to reduce the chances of team members and family members catching COVID infection are negligible.
The patient has recovered well with the new liver and has successfully defeated COVID infection and will be monitored for the next few days and we expect him to resume his normal life soon.
About MGM Healthcare:
Born out of a need for altruism, MGM Healthcare is dedicated to bettering patient experiences and improving clinical outcomes through expertise, passion and technology. The manifestation of this dedication is a state-of-the-art hospital on Nelson Manickam Road having 400 beds, 50 outpatient consultation rooms, over 100 critical care beds, 250+ doctors, 30+ clinical departments, 12 state-of-the-art operating theatres and 24x7 comprehensive Emergency Care. MGM Healthcare is currently Asia’s highest-rated USGBC LEED Platinum-certified Green Hospital.
Over the past year, the team of clinical experts at MGM Healthcare have performed many innovative and complex surgeries in the pursuit of establishing trust and clinical excellence. MGM Healthcare is designed and equipped with the latest in technology and equipment and is poised to drive patient centricity and clinical excellence of both the domestic and international patients.
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