Description

The Centre for Liver Disease &Transplantation at Apollo Hospitals Chennai is a ‘Centre forexcellence’ in the treatment of liver, biliary and pancreaticdisorders. We are a multidisciplinary group offering comprehensiveevaluation and multi-modality treatment options ranging frommedical optimization of chronic liver disease to minimally invasiveand laparoscopic surgical treatment of liver, biliary andpancreatic tumors as well as living donor and cadaveric liver andmultiorgan transplantation. Our doctors are super-specialiststrained at the world’s finest institutes and they are rated as thebest 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 todeliver 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 & operationtheatre. Various surgical tools to enable safe & bloodlessliver surgery including ‘cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator,argon laser coagulation, ultrasonic blood vessel sealing systems’etc. Apollo Hospitals Chennai is a pioneer in organ transplantationin India. Apollo Hospitals has to its credit the first successfulliver 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 oforgan 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 & LiverTransplantation

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

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

Dr Anil Vaidya,
Consultant Transplant surgeon