Chennai Boy Undergoes First Of Its Kind Living Donor Liver Transplant In India For Rare Metabolic Disease at Gleneagles Global Health City
Team of experts at Gleneagles Global Health City successfully performed Complicated Surgery amid COVID Pandemic Chennai, August 20th, 2020: A 16 years old boy from Chennai who was suffering from decompensated chronic liver disease due to ‘Cholesteryl ester storage disease’, has undergone successful liver transplant at Gleneagles Global Health City. Master Dilli Ganesh who had undergone successful liver transplant for Rare metabolic disease with the team of experts who had performed the first-of-its-kind living donor liver Transplant at Gleneagles Global Health City, today Across the globe, only 17 such cases have been reported and this is the first such case reported in India. This is one among the rare genetic liver diseases which affects the liver at childhood and further leads to liver failure as the child grows older. It is caused by a mutation in the LIPA gene. As the situation was getting critical, the boy’s mother decided to donate the right lobe of her liver to save ...