Pancreas Transplant surgery performed in OGH

16 September, Hyderabad

For the first time in the history of government hospitals in the country, Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here performed a complex multi-organ transplantation surgery on a 27-year-old patient who is suffering from Juvenile diabetes, Chronic Kidney failure and Bilateral Retinopathy.

The Patient Ganesh, hailing from Atmakur in Nalgonda district, was given high dose of insulin and also regular haemodialysis at the hospital.
The organs were retrieved from a 23-year-old brain dead patient Vijay Kumar, through Jeevandhan scheme, after he met with a road accident in Karnataka, a release from hospital said last night.

The surgery went for about 23 hours free of cost in the government hospital by a team of doctors led by Dr Madhusudhan, HoD, Surgical gastroenterology, Dr Manisha Sahai( HoD Nephrology) and Dr Deep Raj Singh (HoD Anaeshesiology) and Dr R K Prasad ( HoD, Urology).

Congratulating the doctors and team for successfully performing Pancreas and Kidney transplant on a patient, State Health Minister Dr C Laxma Reddy said ” This is another milestone crossed by the OGH.

Pancreas transplantation is very much complex and serious surgery which requires multiple blood vessels anastomosis. If any problem occur to patient, he will die due to bleeding , pancreatitis or graft blood vessel blockage, Dr Madhusudhan said.

Type 1 diabetes is very common in India as many of these patients die by 40-years due to multiple organ failure because of high blood sugars. They are very few centres across the world doing combined pancreas and kidney transplantation, the surgeon said.

Osmania Hospital is performing multi organ transplantation due to a team of highly skilled doctors and government support, he said.
The patient is now doing well and blood sugars were controlled without insulin.

We are very much thankful to Telangana government particularly the Health Minister for providing all costly consumables and drugs, Dr Madhusudhan added.