Liver Transplant Cost in Delhi NCR

This procedure means a process of removing a liver, which no longer functions the way it should and replacing it with another liver which is healthy and functions properly. Functioning livers are received from a donor who is either living or is deceased. The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body which performs several critical functions such as producing bile, which helps absorb fats, cholesterol, and fat-soluble vitamins; preventing infections from occurring and regulating the immune system; making proteins that help the blood clot; etc.

Usually, this procedure is done at a dedicated transplant center specifically constructed to perform all sorts of transplantation. It can be performed at a multispecialty hospital if it has a specialized and dedicated transplantation ward equipped with modern and latest surgical equipment.

A Hepato-biliary surgeon or GI surgeon who specializes in liver transplantation can perform this procedure along with trained and skilled team of nurses and other professional surgeons.

This surgery is a 6 to 12 hour-long procedure during which a surgeon removes the dysfunctional liver and replaces it with the donor’s healthy and functioning liver. Since this transplantation is a major procedure, surgeons will place several tubes in the patient’s body, which are necessary for the body to perform certain functions during the surgery and for a few days after the surgery. You can get safe and affordable treatment for liver transplant in Delhi with modern surgical equipment and pre/post-surgery care.

This is the only treatment option for those patients suffering from either acute liver failure or chronic liver failure and also for those who are suffering from liver cancer. The major reason which leads to this condition is the scarring of the liver known as Liver Cirrhosis, which is a process in which scar tissues substitute the normal tissues and impair its functions.

Following are the major indications for this surgery.-

• Chronic Hepatitis B and C with cirrhosis

• Primary biliary cholangitis, which is a rare condition where the immune system inappropriately attacks and destroys the bile ducts

• Sclerosing cholangitis, which means scarring and narrowing of the bile ducts inside and outside of the liver, which causes a backup of bile in the liver

• Alcoholism

• Wilson’s disease, which is a rare inherited disease with abnormal levels of copper in the whole body including the liver

• Hemochromatosis, which is a common inherited disease that makes iron quantity in the body high

• Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, which is an abnormal buildup of alpha-1 antitrypsin protein in the liver, which eventually results in cirrhosis

This is the only treatment option left for the doctors to perform if the patient’s liver is untreatable with other treatments and has led to many diseases and in worst cases liver cancer. Liver failure, which occurs quickly in a week is medically known as fulminant hepatic failure, which is usually the outcome of medication-induced liver injury, viral hepatitis or any infection. Though, acute liver failure is treatable by liver transplant but, the procedure is mainly used to treat chronic liver failure, which occurs slowly over months and years. The main reason behind chronic liver failure is Liver Cirrhosis, which happens due to the scarring of the liver.

As soon as a liver has been identified, the liver transplant coordinator or the doctor will contact and inform the patient about it. Following things must be followed strictly by the patient once he is called to the transplant center or the hospital after the intimation-

• He must not eat or drink anything after getting the intimation,

• When the patient arrives at the hospital, additional blood tests, electrocardiogram, and a chest X-ray will be conducted before the surgery.

If the liver of the donor matches with the patient’s liver then the transplant procedure would start on the same day, otherwise, the patient would be sent back home in case of mismatch.

Usually, the doctor may ask the patient to stay in the hospital for 2 to 3 weeks after the surgery. The patient will be shifted from the intensive care unit to the regular nursing room. The nursing staff and doctors would do the following things before discharging you from the hospital-

• They will make the patient aware of the new medications and how to monitor his blood pressure and pulse rate.

• They would make you learn about the signs of rejection and infection of the new liver.

• Generally. A patient returns to the hospital approximately 4 months after the transplant to get the T-tube removed from his body, which was placed by the surgeon during the time of surgery.

This surgery is done using general anesthesia, which would make the patient completely unconscious and go into deep sleep keeping him unaware during the whole procedure. 

Firstly, the transplant surgeon will make a long incision across the patient’s abdomen to get access to the liver. The location and size of the incision may vary as per the surgeon’s approach and the patient’s anatomy. Now, he will disconnect the liver’s blood supply and the bile ducts to remove the diseased liver and place the donor’s liver in the patient’s body and reattach the blood vessels and the bile ducts. Finally, the surgeon with the help of stitches and staples would close the surgical incision. This is the procedure if the donor is a deceased person.

In case, if the donor is a living donor then, only a portion of his liver will be substituted. The surgeon first operates the donor and removes a portion of his liver for a transplant. Then, he removes the dysfunctional liver of the patient and places the donated liver portion in his body. And finally, the surgeon connects the blood vessels and bile ducts to the new liver.

Soon the transplanted liver in the patient’s body and the portion of the liver left inside in the donor’s body would regenerate rapidly, which would start functioning normally within a couple of months. You can request for the cost of liver transplant in Delhi on Credihealth’s website.

This surgery has a risk of significant complications, which are associated with the surgical procedure itself and with the drugs necessary for the patient to prevent rejection of the donor's liver after the transplant. Common risks associated with the procedure are-

• Bile duct complications, which include bile duct leaks or shrinking of the bile ducts.

• Bleeding,

• Blood Clots

• Infection

• Rejection of donated liver

• Mental confusion or seizures

After surgery, the doctor would prescribe medications that the patient needs to take for the rest of his life to help prevent his body from rejecting the donated liver. These anti-rejection medications also known as an immunosuppressant (which suppress the immune system), which can cause various side effects such as-

• Bone thinning

• Diabetes

• Diarrhea

• Headaches

• High blood pressure

• High cholesterol

These immunosuppressants carry the risk of infection for which the doctors would prescribe more medications to fight the infection.

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