Successful Liver and kidney transplants conducted at Osmania General Hospital

In the last two months, the transplant surgeons at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) have successfully conducted two each cadaver liver and kidney transplants, in addition to taking up in-house organ donations from declared brain dead patients.

On August 29, the transplant teams conducted a cadaver liver transplant surgery on 45-year-old Dr Ravi Sundar, Associate Professor,



General Surgery, Suryapet Medical College, and a native of Nalgonda, who was admitted to OGH with full blown liver failure due to a viral infection.

He was very sick with very high bilirubin with coagulopathy (blood not clotting), drowsy (hepatic encephalopathy). In absence of a fit donor in the family, the doctors undertook cadaver liver transplantation to save his life.