DR VIVEK VIJ – BEST LIVER TRANSPLANT SURGEON IN INDIA

• Dr. Vivek Vij is the one best liver transplant surgeon in India and presently working as Director of Liver Transplant and GI surgery department at Fortis Health Care,  New Delhi.  Dr. Vivek Vij is 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.
• He has vast knowledge and experience in Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation, Laparoscopic / Robotic GI & HPB Surgery, Laparoscopic/Robotic Donor Hepatectomy,  Gastrointestinal Diseases, Liver Disease Treatment, Chronic Liver Disease, Hepatitis A Treatment, Jaundice Treatment, Hepatitis B Treatment, Hepatitis C Treatment, Liver Transplant, Liver Resection, Liver Surgery, and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic. 
• Dr. Vivek Vij is the first surgeon from India who publishes a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in 'Liver Transplantation'.  Dr. Vivek Vij and his team has a very good experience to perform more than 2500 liver transplants successfully.

Qualifications:

• MBBS - University Of Poona - 1998
• MS - General Surgery - Baba Farid University of Health Sciences - 2001

Experience:

• Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
• Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
• Fortis Hospital, Mohali
• Rajendra Hospital & Medical College, Patiala
• B.J.M.C, Pune

Fellowship / Membership:

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

Awards and achievements:

• 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 the stomach.

Specialisation:

Abdominal Pain Treatment, Carcinoma Gallbladder, Gall Bladder (Biliary) Stone Treatment, Periampullary Carcinoma, Oesophagus, Gastric Carcinoma, Colorectal Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Laparoscopic Hiatus Hernia Repair, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic Hernia Repair, Laparoscopic Appendicectomy, Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatitis, Pseudocyst Pancreas, Hydrated Cyst, Liver Abscess, Rectal Surgeries, GIHPB, Choledochal cyst, Intestinal Obstruction