Apollo Institutes of Transplant provide a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled state of-the-art service to patients under one roof, supported by cutting-edge medical technology and infrastructure. The state of-the-art services comprise liver and kidney transplantation, corneal transplantation, heart transplants, intestinal and GI transplant surgeries, peritoneal and haemodialysis, management of kidney disease, gastroenterology, endoscopic procedures, GI surgery, paediatric gastroenterology and paediatric transplant services. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals has been a leader in the field of organ transplantation. The first successful pediatric and adult liver transplants in India were performed at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in November 1998. The Apollo Transplant program has performed more than 1600 solid organ transplants every year since 2012 with outcomes comparable to the leading centers in the west
Transplant Milestones in India achieved at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
India’s first pediatric transplant in1998, in New Delhi
The first successful pediatric living related liver transplant 1998, Delhi
The first successful adult cadaver transplant 1998, Delhi
The first successful right lobe liver transplant 1999, Delhi
The first successful pediatric liver transplant for acute liver failure 1999, Delhi
The first successful liver kidney transplant 1999, Delhi
The first successful pediatric re-transplant 2002, Delhi
The first successful pediatric cadaver transplant for liver cancer 2007, Delhi
The first successful liver transplant for HIV 2008, Delhi
1984 – 1st Successful Renal Transplant in India
1998 – 1st Successful Pediatric Liver Transplant in India
1998 – 1st Successful Adult Liver Transplant in India
1999 – 1st Successful Liver Transplant For Acute Liver Failure in India
1999 – 1st Successful Combined Liver Kidney Transplant in India
2008 – 1st Successful Liver Transplant for HIV in India
2008 – Youngest Pediatric Liver Transplant in India
2008 – 1st Successful Liver Transplant for Hepatitis B Without Using Immunoglobulin in India
2008 – 1st Successful Liver Transplant for Crigler Najjar Syndrome in India
2009 – 1st Successful Living Liver Transplant for Portal Biliopathy in India
2010 – 1st International Air Rescue for a Patient With Acute Liver Failure in India
2011 – 1st program in India to complete 500 Liver Transplants
2012 – 1st in the World to perform 1200 Solid Organs Transplants in a year
2014 – Release of postage Stamp Marking 15yrs of India’s First Successful Liver Transplant
2015 – Asia’s first en-bloc Combined Heart and Liver transplant
2015 – Combined Heart and Lung Transplant in the oldest recorded recipient in India
2016 – 1st Pancreas Transplant in the private sector in India
2016 – 1st simultaneous Liver-Intestine-Pancreas Transplant in India
2016 – 1st simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplant in South India
2017 – Double-Lung Transplantation for Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS] – the first case in India and second in the world
2018 – 1st Successful Liver Transplant using Organox Metra, new organ preservation device in India
2019 – Successful ABOi kidney and Liver Transplant in South India
2020 – Performed 21 Kidney and 7 Liver transplants on recipients and who were reported Covid positive after taking extra precaution and guidelines specified by ISOT, LTSI, NOTTO and local zonal bodies.
2021 – Mast. Sanjay Kandasamy qualifies as a doctor
First transplant program in Asia to perform 20,000 + solid organ transplants kidney (16,074), liver (3767), others (418)–(heart 112, lungs 165, combined heat and lung 30, pancreas 6, combined kidney+pancreas 33, small bowel 7, combine kidney+liver 65)