Liver Transplant Surgery

A 14-year-old boy, who was terminally ill with liver failure, has received a new lease of life, thanks to his two elder sisters who donated portions of their organs to him for a challenging transplant surgery, doctors said on Saturday.

A five-month-old girl from West Bengal, whose life was hanging by a thread after suffering an acute liver failure, received a new lease of life when she underwent a 10-hour long transplant surgery at a city hospital from the organ donated by her mother, doctors said Tuesday.

Nine-month-old Kavya Raut got a new lease of life after a successful liver transplant at a hospital in Mumbai. The baby is the youngest in the country to undergo a transplant surgery.

Continuing her humanitarian gesture of granting medical visas to Pakistani nationals, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today announced that two more Pakistani citizens will be given visa for undergoing liver transplant surgeries in India.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today came to the aid of a sick Pakistani national by giving him a medical visa for his liver transplant surgery in India.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that India will grant medical visas to an ailing Pakistani man requiring liver transplant and a three-year-old girl from the country who needs an open heart surgery.

VK Sasikala's husband M Natarajan had a life-saving double organ transplant today at a Chennai hospital that has denied allegations that a teen accident victim was flown to the city in a brain-dead state to facilitate the surgery

A team of doctors at the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad has successfully carried out a life-saving liver transplantation surgery on a 20-year-old woman suffering from a rare genetic liver and neurological disorder.

Doctors at the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad claimed to have performed a rare surgery of 'Auto Transplantation of Liver' on a 24-year-old patient, which they said is only second such transplant in the world.

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

Barcelona and France left-back Eric Abidal, who is recovering from liver transplant surgery in April, is on track to return to action in December, the doctor who carried out the operation says.

Barcelona and France left-back Eric Abidal, who is currently recovering from liver transplant surgery in April, has set his sights on a return to action in December, he told Catalan TV3 on Saturday.

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola says Eric Abidal's liver transplant was completed "without complications" and the France defender's recovery is progressing as expected.

The surgery performed on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.

A 14-year-old boy, who was terminally ill with liver failure, has received a new lease of life, thanks to his two elder sisters who donated portions of their organs to him for a challenging transplant surgery, doctors said on Saturday.

A five-month-old girl from West Bengal, whose life was hanging by a thread after suffering an acute liver failure, received a new lease of life when she underwent a 10-hour long transplant surgery at a city hospital from the organ donated by her mother, doctors said Tuesday.

Nine-month-old Kavya Raut got a new lease of life after a successful liver transplant at a hospital in Mumbai. The baby is the youngest in the country to undergo a transplant surgery.

Continuing her humanitarian gesture of granting medical visas to Pakistani nationals, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today announced that two more Pakistani citizens will be given visa for undergoing liver transplant surgeries in India.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today came to the aid of a sick Pakistani national by giving him a medical visa for his liver transplant surgery in India.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that India will grant medical visas to an ailing Pakistani man requiring liver transplant and a three-year-old girl from the country who needs an open heart surgery.

VK Sasikala's husband M Natarajan had a life-saving double organ transplant today at a Chennai hospital that has denied allegations that a teen accident victim was flown to the city in a brain-dead state to facilitate the surgery

A team of doctors at the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad has successfully carried out a life-saving liver transplantation surgery on a 20-year-old woman suffering from a rare genetic liver and neurological disorder.

Doctors at the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad claimed to have performed a rare surgery of 'Auto Transplantation of Liver' on a 24-year-old patient, which they said is only second such transplant in the world.

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

Barcelona and France left-back Eric Abidal, who is recovering from liver transplant surgery in April, is on track to return to action in December, the doctor who carried out the operation says.

Barcelona and France left-back Eric Abidal, who is currently recovering from liver transplant surgery in April, has set his sights on a return to action in December, he told Catalan TV3 on Saturday.

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola says Eric Abidal's liver transplant was completed "without complications" and the France defender's recovery is progressing as expected.

The surgery performed on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.