Area's of Interest/Expertise : Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Surgery, Advanced Upper & Lowe GI Surgery,
Adult &Paediatric Liver TranHepato-Biliary Pancreatic Surgery, Advanced Upper & Lowe GI Surgery,
Adult &Paediatric Liver Transplant,
Complex Liver Surgery,
Advanced Pancreato-biliary Surgeries,
Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries,
Basic Science Research and Regenerative MedicineRead more
Professional Contribution :Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgeryDr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardising safety protocols to achieve a 100% donor safety profile since the time of its inception in the country. He is the first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in 'Liver Transplantation'. He is the founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals, starting a highly successful liver transplant programme initially at its Noida centre and then at Mohali. Dr. Vij and his team has a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 95% patient and 100% donor success rate. Dr. Vij has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION
Targeting the Achilles heel of adult living donor liver transplant: Corner sparing sutures with mucosal eversion technique of biliary anastomosis.
Laparoscopy-assisted hepatectomy versus conventional (open) hepatectomy for living donors: when you know better, you do better.
Perioperative management of liver transplantation with concurrent coronary artery disease: Report of two cases.
Portal biliopathy treated with living-donor liver transplant: index case.
Peroneal neuropathy following liver transplantation: possible predisposing factors and outcome.
Successful living donor liver transplant in a child with Abernethy malformation with biliary atresia, ventricular septal defect and intrapulmonary shunting.
Squamous cell carcinoma of stomachRead more
Awards / Publications :Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago
