Liver Transplant India

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 multidisciplinary 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 multiorgan 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 enable 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 400 liver transplants in Chennai with >90% success rate, we are at the fore-front of the expanding horizons of organ transplantation in India.

Our Team:

Dr. Anand Khakhar, M.B.B.S., M.S., D.N.B.
Senior Consultant for Liver & MultiVisceral Transplantation, Program Director, CLDT

Dr Anand Ramamurthy, M.B.B.S., M.S., D.N.B.
Senior Consultant, HOD - Surgical Gastroenterology & Liver Transplantation

Dr Manish Varma, MS (AIIMS), DNB, MNAMS
Associate Professor & Head of Unit, Multi-Organ Transplantation and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Dr Mahesh Gopasetty, M.S, M.R.C.S
Senior Consultant for Liver & MultiVisceral Transplantation,

Dr Anil Vaidya,
Consultant Transplant surgeon