Kauvery Hospital Successfully Performs Liver Transplant on 25-year-old Woman with a Rare Liver Tumor

Chennai | Wednesday | 16th June, 2021

Summary:

Kauvery Hospitals, one of the leading healthcare chains in Tamil Nadu, successfully treated a 25-year-old woman with a rare liver tumor at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai. The team performed a successful living donor liver transplant and she was discharged after a short hospital stay and good recovery. Hepatic Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma( HEHE), is a rare tumor that occurs in the soft tissues or blood vessels in the lung, liver or bone. We recommended a liver transplantation to be done, in order to replace the cancerous organ with a healthier one." I congratulate Dr.

K.

Elankumaran and team for consistently and successfully treating such patients whose condition would not have been otherwise diagnosed in time.".