India has become one of the leading destinations for medical tourism, and liver transplant is among the procedures international patients travel here for most often. At experienced centres, one-year survival sits in the region of 85 to 90 per cent, comparable to leading programmes worldwide.

Doctors often see patients who ignore stomach pain for months, assuming it’s just gas or acidity. Sometimes the cause is bigger than that, hidden in the liver, pancreas, or bile duct. When a serious problem in one of these organs cannot be treated with medicines alone, hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, usually shortened to HPB surgery, is needed.

A liver transplant is over in a matter of hours, but recovery is a much longer story. For most patients, liver transplant recovery begins with a closely watched hospital stay and continues for several months at home.

The liver rarely shows early warning signs of damage. It does its work silently in the background, processing what you eat, filtering waste from the blood, and making the proteins your body depends on. Because it keeps going even under strain, most people don’t notice liver problems until damage is already significant.

Almost everyone diagnosed with liver cirrhosis arrives at the same question: can the liver regenerate? It is one of the first things patients ask me, and it is a fair question, because most people have heard that the liver is the one organ that can heal itself.

One of the biggest mistakes people make after being diagnosed with fatty liver is searching for a “special liver diet” online and suddenly trying to eat only salads, soups, and boiled food.

CBD Stone or Common Bile Duct Stone, also known as choledocholithiasis, refers to a stone stuck in the common bile duct. This duct carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the intestine. When this flow gets blocked, digestion gets disturbed and symptoms start showing.

When your doctor recommends a liver transplant, a common question is often, is it going to be successful? Which is a genuine concern for patients undergoing a liver transplant and understanding the success rate of liver transplant in India supports better decision-making.

Every third Indian has fatty liver, said Union minister Dr. Jitendra Singh recently. If you’re quietly thinking that fatty liver disease, which causes the liver to swell with dangerous levels of fat, is not going to happen to you because you don’t drink, you’re wrong. Even a teenager can get it, and it can progress to a more severe condition called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is a leading cause of liver cancer, cirrhosis, and liver transplants. But there’s a silver lining — it can be reversed in the early stages.

A revolutionary technique known as machine perfusion is helping surgeons like Dr. Prashant Kadam preserve donor livers longer and improve transplant success rates. This article explains how machine perfusion works, its benefits over traditional cold storage and why it’s a game changer in organ transplantation especially for marginal or DCD (donation after circulatory death) organs. Dr Kadam shares his UK-based experience using this technology to save lives.

Gallstones are common and often harmless but when symptoms become persistent or unusual, it could point to something more serious. This blog post highlights when gallstone symptoms should raise a red flag, how gallbladder cancer is diagnosed, and why early surgical consultation is critical. Dr. Kadam also shares insights from his surgical experience in distinguishing between infectious and non-infectious biliary conditions.

Liver transplant is often perceived as a last resort, but in many cases, early evaluation and timely intervention can dramatically improve outcomes. In this post Dr. Prashant Kadam explains the indications for liver transplantation, the evaluation process, and how to know if it’s time to consider a transplant. Learn the difference between living and deceased donor liver transplants, what tests are involved, and how to prepare for surgery. If you or a loved one is living with cirrhosis or liver failure, this guide is for you.