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Tuesday, Oct 01, 2002
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Health Global Hospitals to start liver ICU Our Bureau
HYDERABAD, Sept 30 GLOBAL Hospitals has announced that it would be shortly opening a 14-bed liver intensive care unit (LICU), claimed to be the first such dedicated facility in the country. While the facility would be inaugurated on October 2, the hospital expects to conduct the first liver transplantation in the first week of November. Announcing this here on Monday, its Chairman and Managing Director, Dr K. Ravindranath, said the hospital would offer molecular absorbent recirculating system (MARS), which is an albumin dialysis system for removing toxins that accumulate during liver failure. Stating that the therapy with MARS obviated the need for liver transplantation in some cases by enabling the liver to regenerate itself and regain its lost functions, he said the therapy also enabled patients with end-stage disease and awaiting a donor liver for transplantation to tide over the critical period when the liver function was at its lowest ebb. According to Dr Dharmesh Kapoor, hepatologist, the predicted mortality rate in acute, sub-acute and chronic liver failure was estimated at around 90 per cent with standard medical therapy. "Such patients can now have a new lease of life with the use of devices of the kind available in Global Hospitals. The world over, the survival rate following treatment with MARS has been reported as 63 to 67 per cent in select group of patients." Dr Ravindranath said the liver ICU was equipped with sophisticated diagnostic and imaging machinery, artificial liver support system, ventilators, haemodynamic monitors, continuous renal replacement therapy, which facilitated advanced dialysis in kidney failure patients, intensive care beds specially imported to take care of very ill patients.
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