Integrated Liver Care
The Integrated Liver Care Unit at Aster Medcity offers highly-advanced services for comprehensive management of complex liver diseases and hepato pancreato biliary diseases in both adults and children. The outstanding team of Doctors comprising Hepato Pancreato Biliary & Abdominal Multi-Organ Transplant Surgeons, Hepatologists, Pancreato Biliary Endoscopy experts, Hepato Biliary Radiologists/Interventional Radiologists and Liver Transplant Anesthesiologists have a collective experience of more than 2600 liver transplants, 200 pancreas and 4000 complex liver, biliary and pancreatic surgeries.
Aster Medcity is the first hospital in the world to perform a simultaneous live-donor liver and kidney transplant on a 20-month old toddler weighing just 7 kilograms and simultaneous liver transplants in one-year old identical twins who suffered liver failure due to accidental poisoning - a first-of-its-kind case in the world.
Read MoreThe Integrated Liver Care Unit at Aster Medcity offers highly-advanced services for comprehensive management of complex liver diseases and hepato pancreato biliary diseases in both adults and children. The outstanding team of Doctors comprising Hepato Pancreato Biliary & Abdominal Multi-Organ Transplant Surgeons, Hepatologists, Pancreato Biliary Endoscopy experts, Hepato Biliary Radiologists/Interventional Radiologists and Liver Transplant Anesthesiologists have a collective experience of more than 2600 liver transplants, 200 pancreas and 4000 complex liver, biliary and pancreatic surgeries.
Aster Medcity is the first hospital in the world to perform a simultaneous live-donor liver and kidney transplant on a 20-month old toddler weighing just 7 kilograms and simultaneous liver transplants in one-year old identical twins who suffered liver failure due to accidental poisoning - a first-of-its-kind case in the world.
ADULT HEPATOLOGY
Outpatient Services
- Consultation
- Liver ultrasound
- Fibroscan
- Liver biopsy/FNAC
- Ascitic tap
- Endoscopy
- Liver transplant assessment
Speciality Clinics
- Viral Hepatitis
- Auto immune liver disease
- Jaundice
- Liver transplant
- Liver transplant assessment
- Post liver transplant
- Complex liver diseases
- Chronic liver diseases
- Fatty liver/NASH
- Alcoholic liver diseases
- Alcoholic de-addiction
Specialised Services
- Endoscopy - band ligation, glue injection, sclerotherapy, ERCP
- Dedicated liver ICU manned by liver intensivists, trained nurses
- Liver biopsy/FNAC
- Transjugular liver biopsy
- TIPS (Transjugular Intrahepatic Shunt)
- BRTO (for bleeding)
- TACE
- TARE (Rhenium/Y90)
- Radio frequency ablation (RFA)
- EBRT (radiotherapy)
- Multidisciplinary care for alcoholic liver diseases
- Advanced therapeutic interventions for liver tumours
- Liver intensive care for acute liver failure
- Dedicated liver ward for decompensated liver diseases
- Pre and post liver transplant care
TRANSPLANT HEPATOLOGY
- Pre-liver transplant assessment
- Transplant counselling
- Nutrition optimisation
- Infection screening
- Preventive vaccinations - Hepatitis B/A
- Annual post -transplant evaluation
- Live and deceased donor liver transplantation
PAEDIATRIC HEPATOLOGY
- Assessment of neonatal jaundice
- Management of congenital liver diseases
- Biliary atresia management
- Paediatric liver transplant
- Live and deceased donor transplant
- Paediatric hepato oncology
HEPATOBILIARY ENDOSCOPY
Upper GI endoscopy
- Variceal ligation (banding)
- Glue injection
- Sclerotherapy
- Esophageal stents for bleeding
ERCP
- For stones, strictures
- Metallic stent palcements
- Spy glass cholangioscopy
Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Diagnostic
- Staging
- Therapeutic
HEPATO PANCREATO BILIARY SURGERY
Day care surgery/procedures for
- Liver abscess drainage
- Pain relief from cancer
- Pain relief for chronic pancreatitis
- Gall bladder surgery
Liver Resection For
- Primary liver cancers (HCC)
- Hilar Cholangio carcinomas
- Secondary liver tumours
- Bile duct cancers
- Gall baldder cancers
- Benign liver tumours - Adenoma
Biliary Surgery
- Bile duct injury - biliary reconstruction
- Choledochal cyst
- Biliary strictures
- Palliative bypass
- Bile duct stones
Pancreatic Surgery
- Whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomy
- Distal pancreatectomy
- Frey’s procedure
- Biopsy
Laparoscopic Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery
- Major hepatectomy (liver resection)
- Minor hepatectomy
- Bile duct exploration for stones
- Laparoscopy assisted tumour ablation/biopsy
- Pancreatetctomy
- Surgery for chronic pancreatitis
- Minimally invasive necrosectomy
Robotic Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery
- Hemi hepatectomy for liver cancers
- Bile duct explorations
- Bile duct reconstructions
- Cholangiocarcinomas
- Pancreatic resections
- Splenectomy
Speciality Clinics
- Liver tumour
- Neuroendocrine
- Sarcoma
- Biliary cancer
Liver Trauma
24/7 on call services for management of injuries of the liver, including advanced intensive care management, interventional radiological and surgical treatment.
Hepato Biliary Oncology
Surgical/non-surgical management of complex hilar carcinomas, metastatic liver tumours, primary liver cancers, with a multidisciplinary approach.
MULTI-ORGAN TRANSPLANT
- Liver transplant
- Pancreas transplant
- Abdominal multi-organ transplant
Liver Transplantation
- Live donor liver transplantation
- Deceased donor liver transplantation
- Split liver transplantation
- Combined dual organ transplantation
- Multi visceral transplantation
Paediatric Hepato Pancreato Biliary /Liver Transplant
- Liver transplant for Hepatoblastoma
- Liver resection for primary liver tumour
- Multidisciplinary treatment for Hepatoblastoma
- Biliary Atresia
- Biliary diversion for PFIC
- Liver donor liver transplant
ADVANCED SUPPORT SERVICES
Hepatobiliary Radiology & Interventional Radiology
- Advanced 3D imaging
- Liver MRI
- Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage and stenting for biliary strictures
- Portal vein embolisation
- Radiofrequency ablation of liver cancers
- Intra operative Doppler studies
- Transjugular liver biopsy
- Hepatic venous pressure gradient measurements to assess portal hypertension
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) for variceal bleeding
Nuclear Medicine
- HIDA Scan (Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy)
- Liver Spleen Scintigraphy
- Techtenium RBC Labeled Blood Pool Scintigraphy
- Yttrium 90 SIR Sphere Therapy for metastatic liver tumour patients who are no longer responding to chemotherapy/ those with primary liver care cancer that cannot be surgically managed
- PET scan for cancer staging
- TARE - Transarterial Radioembolisation (Rhenium/Y90-SIRT)
- DOTA PET scan for neuro endocrine tumours
Hepato Pancreato Biliary & Transplant Pathology
- Immunohistochemistry
- Liver transplant pathology
- Molecular diagnosis and genetic mutation analysis
Advanced Technology
- Dedicated OR 1 Karlstorz fusion integrated transplant surgical suites
- Green OT Certified Operation Theatres with autopilot anaesthesia
- Dedicated ICCA (IntelliSpace Critical Care and Anaesthesia) transplant ICUs
- Level 3 Paediatric ICU
- India’s first independent ICUs with a view
- Kerala’s first da Vinci Surgery Robot
- Highly advanced Infection Control: Air is HEPA Filtered to 0.3 microns
- India’s first flat panel bi-plane vascular hybrid cathlab
- Kerala’s first fourth generation Time of Flight 16 Slide PET CT
- GE SPECT-CT OPTIMA NM 640 Gamma Camera EPIQ
- 3 Tesla Wide Bore Digital MRI
- 256 slice Philips iCT scanner
- State-of-the-art lab
NUTRITIONAL REHABILITATION
Expert clinical nutritionists to provide dietary advice/plan a healthy, balanced diet for the patient.
TRANSPLANT REHABILITATION
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- De-addiction and rehabilitation for patients with substance abuse
- Psychotherapy and behavioural therapy
- Counselling services
- Quality of life assessment pre and post-transplant
TRANSPLANT COORDINATORS (FOR LIVER & PANCREAS TRANSPLANT)
- Pre-transplant clinic visits
- Registration for transplants
- Single point of contact
- Post-transplant clinic visits
Doctors
Dr. Mathew Jacob
Senior Consultant
Dr. Charles Panackel
Senior Consultant
Dr. Mallikarjun Sakpal
Consultant
Dr. Prakash Doraiswamy
Consultant
Dr. Rajiv Lochan J
Consultant
Dr. Sonal Asthana
Consultant
Dr. Arun V
Consultant
Dr. Sudheer Mohammed M
Senior Specialist
Dr. Anish G Nair
Specialist
Dr. Jithin Reji George
Specialist
Facilities
Inpatient Facilities
Aster Medcity offers world-class inpatient care to its patients, with the support of an award-winning team of Nurses, Therapists and Technicians.
- Wards, double rooms, standard rooms, executive rooms, deluxe rooms presidential suites
- Dedicated ICUs
- Independent ICUs with a view that minimise chances of infection and ICU psychosis
- Dedicated cardiac surgery suites
- Advanced infection control facilities
- State-of-the-art cardiac imaging
Aster Liver Cancer Clinic
The most advanced facility in Kerala for comprehensive management of liver cancer, Aster Liver Cancer Clinic at Aster Medcity combines multidisciplinary expertise and technology to ensure the best possible outcomes in patients of all ages.
