Dr. Karthik Mathivanan - Best Liver Transplant Surgeon in Chennai

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About Doctor DR. KARTHIK MATHIVANAN

Dr. Karthik Mathivanan is a
well-known Liver Transplant Surgeon having 15 years of experience.
His expertise lies in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Transplants and Laparoscopic Gastro-Intestinal Surgeries.
He has performed more than 2000 complex & high-risk liver surgeries and over 1000 successful kidney transplants.
He is a pioneer in advocating ‘Organ Preservation’ that has resulted in successful transplants.
He did Asia’s first living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure in a SARS 2 Covid positive recipient, the country’s first liver transplant with a Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) pump on an end-stage liver disease patient, India’s first Complete Multivesicular transplant, South India’s first combined Cardiac bypass and living donor liver transplant in a 70-year-old lady, India’s and the world’s smallest liver transplant recipient 2.1 kg, and India’s first successful Intestinal Transplant.
He published India’s first and largest series of combined kidney and pancreas transplants and India’s largest series of adult-to-adult cadaver split liver transplants in 2014.
He has numerous publications to his credit.
He is a member of the International Liver Transplant Society, Liver Transplant Society of India, Association of Surgeons of India, and Indian Liver Transplant Society.