Dr. Vivek Vij

  • Liver Transplant Surgeon
  • Chairman
  • 23 years of experience
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute
Works at Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon
Location
Gurgaon, India
About Dr. Vivek Vij
  • Dr. Vivek Vij is among the renowned Liver Transplant Surgeons having 23 years of experience.
  • Performed more than 500 liver transplants with minimum complications and 2000 liver transplants with cumulative experience with his team
  • Revolutionary liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to achieve a 100% donor safety profile since the time of its inception in the country
  • The first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in Liver Transplantation.
  • Founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals, starting a highly successful liver transplant program initially at its Noida center and then at Mohali
  • Attained the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
  • Performed more than 500 non-transplant liver resections including radical cholecystectomies and segmental liver resections.
  • Interests are GI cancers, Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and biliary injuries.
  • Dr. Vivek Vij is among the renowned Liver Transplant Surgeons having 23 years of experience.
  • Performed more than 500 liver transplants with minimum complications and 2000 liver transplants with cumulative experience with his team
  • Revolutionary liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to achieve a 100% donor safety profile since the time of its inception in the country
  • The first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in Liver Transplantation.
  • Founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals, starting a highly successful liver transplant program initially at its Noida center and then at Mohali
  • Attained the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
  • Performed more than 500 non-transplant liver resections including radical cholecystectomies and segmental liver resections.
  • Interests are GI cancers, Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and biliary injuries.
Education
  • MBBS, B.J Medical college, Pune
  • MS
  • DNB
Work Experience of Dr. Vivek Vij
Awards

Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago

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Dr. Vivek Vij practices at Fortis Hospital, Vadapalani
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Dr. Vivek Vij specialty is Liver Transplant Surgeon
Dr. Vivek Vij is Liver Transplant Surgeon with 21 years of experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Liver transplant surgeons are specially trained doctors who perform the surgery and provide care before and after the transplant.
Investigations like Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of abdomen or pelvis, Computed tomography (CT) scan of abdomen or pelvis, Dobutamine stress echocardiogram (DSE), Ultrasound, Electrocardiogram, Colonoscopy, Mammogram, and blood tests.
You can get but in there is poor prognosis.
For the liver donor, criteria includes a compatible blood type and body size having no serious medical condition such as liver disease, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer and should be aged between 18 to 60 and for liver recipient a OPTN's computer system is followed which matches the donor's organs to potential recipients.
Usually, about 75% of people who undergo liver transplant live for at least five years.
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