Liver Transplant
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How a Delhi hospital gave Filipino twins a new lease of life after an extremely rare liver condition
Health | Jul 08, 2026, 09:53 PM ISTDelhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital successfully performed a rare twin liver transplant on Filipino brothers Kelly and Tyler, who both developed liver failure due to choledochal cyst. Their mother and maternal uncle donated parts of their livers, helping save both children's lives.
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Maharashtra: Couple dies after organ transplant in Pune; health department serves notice to hospital
Maharashtra | Aug 25, 2025, 12:11 PM ISTTheir family has accused the hospital of medical negligence and is calling for an investigation into the deaths. The hospital, however, maintains that the procedures were carried out following standard medical guidelines.
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Chinese doctors successfully implant pig liver into brain-dead human for first time | Details here
World | Mar 27, 2025, 01:51 PM ISTThe liver is a complex challenge because of its varied jobs, including removing waste, breaking down nutrients and medicines, fighting infection, storing iron and regulating blood clotting. The Chinese patient is the third person in the world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney.
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IAF aircraft airlifts liver of brain dead man from Chandigarh to Delhi
India | May 31, 2023, 11:59 PM ISTAn Indian Air Force aircraft successfully airlifted harvested organ (liver) from Chandigarh to Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi on Tuesday evening amid rainfall and thunderstorm.
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Critically-ill teenaged boy gets new life as sisters donate portions of livers
India | Aug 21, 2021, 05:10 PM ISTThe teenager from Budaun in Uttar Pradesh had undergone the surgery recently at a leading private facility in Gurgaon, and the hospital authorities claimed that it was "the country's first pediatric dual lobe liver transplant".
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23-km green corridor gives BSF constable awaiting liver transplant new lease of life
India | Jul 25, 2021, 10:49 AM ISTDoctors at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital performed the life-saving surgery, giving the 42-year-old male patient from Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) a new lease of life.
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Help my son receive a transplant from his father and survive liver disease!
Brand Content | Apr 28, 2021, 04:52 PM ISTWe never expected that the joy of having a child would vanish so soon. It has only been 5 months since his birth and he is fighting a deadly disease.
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Amethi farmer gets free liver transplant
India | Nov 06, 2019, 12:07 PM ISTA poor farmer from the Amethi district got a free liver transplant after the department of surgical gastroenterology at King George's Medical University (KGMU) here played good samaritan for him. Gyanendra Pratap Singh, 41, was suffering from liver cirrhosis, and the prognosis was not favourable without a transplant, the doctors had opined.
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Delhi women donate parts of livers to save each other's husband
India | Apr 17, 2019, 10:54 PM ISTTwo Delhi women gave a fresh lease of life to each other's husbands, who were suffering from "end-stage liver disease", through a swap transplant.
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Sasikala's husband M Natarajan undergoes liver, kidney transplant
National | Oct 04, 2017, 08:41 PM ISTJailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala's husband M Natarajan has undergone liver and kidney transplant at a city hospital with the organs harvested from a brain-dead youth
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A man donates liver to save his 17-month-old daughter’s life
Lifestyle | Apr 19, 2017, 10:31 AM ISTA 17-month-old girl from Raipur was granted life by none other than her own father.
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Hit by note ban, girl writes letter to Modi urging him to save her ‘hospitalised’ mother
India | Nov 18, 2016, 03:59 PM ISTFacing a tough situation following the demonetisation move by the India government, a girl from Kolkata has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to save her ‘hospitalised’ mother who is currently
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Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals successfully performs first split liver transplant in two adults
India | Jul 03, 2015, 02:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals organised a press briefing today to announce the successful completion of a cadaver split liver transplant wherein both the parts of the liver were given to two adult recipients.Both patients
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Dhruvika, the youngest Indian to undergo liver transplant
India | Mar 06, 2014, 02:48 PM ISTBangalore: Brave Dhruvika has finally won the battle against deadly Citrullinemia with the help of his grandmother.Dhruvika was diagnosed with Citrullinemia just after her birth. Now she has been gifted a new life with a