The Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation The Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation at Apollo Hospitals Chennai is a ‘Centre for excellence’ in the treatment of liver, biliary and pancreatic disorders. We are a multi-disciplinary group offering comprehensive evaluation and multi-modality treatment options ranging from medical optimization of chronic liver disease to minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgical treatment of liver, biliary and pancreatic tumors as well as living donor and cadaveric liver and multi-organ transplantation. Our doctors are super-specialists trained at the world’s finest institutes and they are rated as the best in their respective areas of specialization. A true ‘centre for excellence’, this unit is equipped with the ‘latest and the best’ in facilities & equipment required to deliver the most comprehensive program aiming at results that are ‘second to none’ on the planet. We have a 320 slice CT scanner, a ‘ state of the art’ liver intensive care unit & operation theatre. Various surgical tools to e nable safe & bloodless liver surgery including ‘cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator, argon laser coagulation, ultrasonic blood vessel sealing systems’ etc. Apollo Hospitals Chennai is a pioneer in organ transplantation in India. Apollo Hospitals has to its credit the first successful liver transplantation in India. With the largest presence in India & more than 100 liver transplants in Chennai with >90% success rate, we are at the fore-front of the expanding horizons of organ transplantation in India. Apollo Liver Clinic LiverTransplant Apollo Liver Clinics is an e ffort to simplify, streamline and optimize the care of patients with liver disease. We aim to become a ‘one stop solution’ for patients with liver diseases & hepato-biliary pancreatic disorders so that all their requirements related to medical care are available under one roof & from one place thus saving patients’ time, cost & reducing duplication of tests & clinic encounters. These clinics provide a road map of the treatment plan that is optimally tailored for the individual patient. Liver transplantation is a replacement of diseased liver in a patient with end stage liver failure with a healthy organ. Both adults & children can undergo liver transplantation. Hepatitis related liver cirrhosis, acute liver failures & even those complicated by unresectable liver tumors can be effectively treated by liver transplantation. Living donor liver transplantation is a safe option with high success rates & is absolute safety for the donors. Particularly for sick patients where waiting can be perilous, we strongly recommend living donor liver transplantation. Pancreas, small bowel and multi-visceral transplantation Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery Pancreas transplantation is for people with difficult to control diabetes who also have renal failure. It is aimed to ‘cure’ diabetes and in the long run it will protect the transplanted kidney from being affected by diabetes and even reverse neuropathy and prolong their life. Small bowel transplantation is for people with intestinal failure from either surgical cause or medical cause. This patient population, if not treated appropriately, will additionally develop liver and or kidney failure. They may need combination of liver, small intestine and kidney transplantation (multi-visceral transplantation). We have a successful on-going cadaver organ transplantation program which make these type of complex operations possible. We have the doctors and the technology available to optimize their care in all aspects. The Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation is committed to providing the most advanced diagnostic & therapeutic tools available in the treatment of liver, biliary and pancreatic tumors. We offer minimally invasive options including laparoscopic surgical resection, radio-frequency ablation, trans-arterial chemo-embolization, radioactive micro-sphere injections etc. Our multi-disciplinary group undertaking these treatments includes radiation & interventional radiologists & oncologists.