MGM Healthcare Chennai successfully performs India’s first Liver transplant with Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion on an end-stage liver disease patient
HOPE Liver pump machine employed for the first time in the country Chennai, June 25, 2021: MGM Healthcare , a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of the Chennai, today announced that it had successfully conducted a Cadaveric Liver Transplantation on a patient with end-stage liver disease using an innovative - Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) liver pump - for the very first time in the country. The surgery was successfully performed on 25/03/2021. Video👇👇 A 50-member team under the leadership of Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan Director, Institute of liver diseases and Transplantation at MGM healthcare successfully conducted this complex liver pump procedure to expand the liver donor pool. Speaking about the procedure, Dr Thiagarajan explained “A 44-year-old end stage liver disease patient with rare AB blood group was in the state and country’s transplant waiting list for cadaveric donor liver for the past one year. Given that the patient had a rare b...