Services Offered

Liver Clinic:

1. Specialized clinic to specifically cater to the needs of patients with liver and bilio-pancreatic diseases.
2. Virtual clinics (Tele-conferencing)
3. Specialty clinics
   Viral hepatitis clinic – Wednesday
   Alcohol liver clinic – Thursday
   Liver Tumors clinic – Friday
   Liver Transplant clinic – Saturday
4. Fibroscan/ARFI

Intensive care Liver unit:

1. The multi-disciplinary approach to intensive care in liver disease is different from other diseases and it is a rapidly growing field with new opportunities.
2. New treatment algorithms can be developed for treatment of patients with acute liver failure, acute-on-chronic liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and GI bleed.

Interventional Radiology 

1. Percutaneous liver biopsy and  trans jugular liver biopsy
2. Percutaneous trans-hepatic biliary drainage (PTBD)
3. Percutaneous cystic drainage (PCD)
4. Radio-frequency ablation (RFA)
5. Trans-arterial chemo-embolization (TACE)
6. Trans jugular intrahepatic Porto-systemic shunt (TIPS)

Endoscopy services:

1. Advanced diagnostic upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy, 
2. Therapeutic endoscopy (EST, EVL, APC, Heater probe, glue injection, dilatation)
3. Emergency GI Bleed services 
4. Endoscopic retrograde pancreato-cholangiography (Diagnostic and therapeutic)
5. Endoscopic ultrasound (Diagnostic)
6. Cholangioscopy (Diagnostic and therapeutic)

Day Care:

1. Post-intervention monitoring of patients as per protocol
2. Large volume paracentesis
3. Periodic albumin infusions

Liver nutrition services:

1. Along with clinical nutrition service

Psycho-social services:

1. Alcohol de-addiction clinics
2. Manage families of liver transplant patients on psycho-social issues to maintain compliance to drugs and follow up post-surgery

 Advanced liver support systems:

1. Therapeutic plasmapheresis

Liver transplantation:

1. The transplant team comprising of
   Transplant surgeons
   Hepatologists
   Intensivists
   Nutritionist
   Transplant coordinators

Supportive services
General Medicine
GI Surgery
Infectious Diseases (Transplant service)
Pulmonology
Cardiology
Psychiatry
Nephrology
Neurology
Radiology (Diagnostic and interventional)

“Every hour counts in the successful management of these complex and critically ill patients.  Continuous monitoring and aggressive completion of necessary tests is essential to get these challenging patients to transplantation”