Milestones
- Launch of Advanced Integrated Comprehensive Liver Care Network by Apollo Hospitals, Madurai. Patients from Madurai, Karaikudi, Trichy and Karur will be benefitted by this network.
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed India’s first liver transplantation using OrganOx Metra, new organ preservation device, on a 66-year-old patient.
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs Asia’s first en-bloc combined heart & liver transplant, joining a very small set of transplant centers in the world to have done this.
- Apollo Hospitals saves the life of 3 individuals; achieves the feat of transplanting the liver of a single donor into two adult recipients; successfully performs an isolated intestinal transplantation and transplants the abdominal wall – the first ever case in South India, all from the organs of a single donor
- The liver transplant team at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai completed over 345 liver transplants till 2014
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed a multi-organ transplant, a complex procedure for the first time in India giving a middle-aged man a new liver, intestine and pancreas.
