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Vivek Vij

Transplant surgeon, General surgeon

23 years of experience

Dr. Vivek Vij is a renowned Liver Transplant Surgeon with 23 years of experience, having performed more than 500 liver transplants and credited with developing living donor surgery. He has attained the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide and is the founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in the Fortis group of Hospitals.

Location

Global Hospital Chennai ,Chennai , India
3.97 reviews
USA

Dr. Vivek Vij is a renowned Liver Transplant Surgeon with 23 years of experience, having performed more than 500 liver transplants and credited with developing living donor surgery. He is the founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in the Fortis group of Hospitals, and has attained the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.

  • 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 Awards MBBS, B.J Medical college, Pune MS DNB Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago USA
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Barno
Aug 12, 2019
Lung cancer

Thanks for the help in organizing the trip and the treatment, they send me an answer for analyzes for a little while

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Сергей
Feb 3, 2020
Infectious diseases

Good afternoon. At the clinic, such information. They need expensive surgery to replace organs. Gasteenterologist. Normally. Infectious disease. Normally. Neurologist.

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Александр
Apr 7, 2018
Ultrasound

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Сергей
Feb 3, 2020
Infectious diseases

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Raikhman Eva Eduardivna
Jun 20, 2019
Heart transplant