Liver Symposium 2007
Today there is hope for end stage liver diseases
Star Health Report
Liver damage is quite a common health problem throughout the world. The consequence of liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer), viral attack often lead to fatality where patients have no option but to wait till die. Liver transplant surgery provides those patients with a new option to live longer.These talks came in the inauguration session of Liver Symposium 2007 organised by Asian Centre for Liver Diseases & Transplantation at Gleneagles Hospital - one of Parkway Group Healthcare hospitals in Singapore. The state of the art centre provides the cutting edge technology for liver transplantation and further care for patients coming from the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Renowned physicians dealing with the specialty in different parts of the world including the USA came to share views and latest development in this field in the two day long symposium at Gleneagles Hospital recently. They presented scientific papers on different issues like paediatric liver transplant, malignancies, management of acute liver failure, long term post transplant management issue, barriers to liver transplant, issues with live donors and recipients, hepatitis, radiology in liver transplant, extrahepatic manifestation of HCV, liver dialysis and so on. Dr Tan Kai Chan, Consultant Surgeon, Hepatobilliary / Transplant of Asian Center for Liver Diseases & Transplantation at Gleneagles Hsopital expressed to engage paediatric hepatologists and start paediatric liver transplant programme in the near future.
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Inaugural session of Liver Symposium 2007 at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore (Left). Liver donor Mohamed Eusoph Bin Kadir Marideen with her mother, the liver recipient Hatheejal Beevi Binte Sahib (Right) after successful live donor liver transplant at Gleneagles Hospital |
