The patient had undergone a regular health check-up that revealed swelling in the liver. He was also beginning to experience blood in vomitus, along with stomach ulcers. A liver transplant was urgent.
The true essence of being a family lies in being each other's support in times of crisis. A Surat-based family managed to send out a beautiful message recently, when a daughter-in-law stepped up to save the life of her father-in-law during a health-related setback. She selflessly donated a portion of her liver to her father-in-law, who had been battling with chronic liver disease for a while.
A robotic transplant was performed at Gleneagles Hospitals, by a team of doctors, including Dr Gaurav Chaubal, director of liver, pancreas, and intestine transplant program, and HPB surgery, and Dr Uday Sanglodkar, senior consultant hepatologist and clinical lead liver and transplant ICU. There were a few complications involved, such as the patient having undergone multiple hospitalisations, acute kidney injury, drowsiness and loss of consciousness, and also infections. Read on to find out more about this case.
In 2019, the 58-year-old patient, a resident of Surat, underwent a regular health check-up that revealed swelling in the liver. He also began to experience blood in vomitus and had stomach ulcers. Multiple doctors, however, failed to provide an accurate diagnosis.
When his health deteriorated over the last six months and he began to suffer from frequent drowsiness and other symptoms,.