<p>A group Indian doctors lent a helping hand to their Pakistani counterparts to jointly perform a complicated liver transplant procedure for the first time in Pakistan.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The living donor liver transplantations (LDLT) were performed at Lahore's Shiekh Zayed Hospital yesterday by a team of Indian and Pakistani surgeons, officials said today.<br /><br />LDLTs are "highly sensitive and complicated" surgical procedures as two lives – the donor and recipient – are at risk, doctors said.<br /><br />The joint operations were done by Indian surgeon Subash Gupta, a senior transplant doctor of Apollo Hospital in Delhi, and three of his colleagues and the three-member Pakistani team of Tariq Bangash, Khawar Shahzad and Umer Ali.<br /><br />"The joint venture of leading Indian and Pakistani transplant surgeons has made history by opening a new era of living-relative liver transplants in Pakistan," Bangish said.<br /><br />The first liver transplant was performed on Khanum Maula and the liver was donated by his close relative Irshad Bibi.<br /><br />The second surgery was conducted on 45-year-old Abida Parveen and the liver was donated by her 19-year-old son.<br /><br />It took 12 hours for the surgeons to complete each sensitive procedure.<br /><br />Both recipients were brought to Shaikh Zayed Hospital with complete liver failures.<br />The Indian doctors visited Pakistan to perform the transplants at the request of the Pakistani surgeons.<br /><br />Before the arrival of the Indian doctors, surgeons at Shaikh Zayed Hospital finalised arrangements for the sensitive operations and prepared the donors and recipients.<br />The condition of all the recipients and donors was stable and they were kept under observation in intensive care for 24 hours.<br /><br />Consultants were put on high alert for post-operative care of the patients for 24 hours, a highly sensitive period for all who undergo hours-long surgeries.</p>
<p>A group Indian doctors lent a helping hand to their Pakistani counterparts to jointly perform a complicated liver transplant procedure for the first time in Pakistan.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The living donor liver transplantations (LDLT) were performed at Lahore's Shiekh Zayed Hospital yesterday by a team of Indian and Pakistani surgeons, officials said today.<br /><br />LDLTs are "highly sensitive and complicated" surgical procedures as two lives – the donor and recipient – are at risk, doctors said.<br /><br />The joint operations were done by Indian surgeon Subash Gupta, a senior transplant doctor of Apollo Hospital in Delhi, and three of his colleagues and the three-member Pakistani team of Tariq Bangash, Khawar Shahzad and Umer Ali.<br /><br />"The joint venture of leading Indian and Pakistani transplant surgeons has made history by opening a new era of living-relative liver transplants in Pakistan," Bangish said.<br /><br />The first liver transplant was performed on Khanum Maula and the liver was donated by his close relative Irshad Bibi.<br /><br />The second surgery was conducted on 45-year-old Abida Parveen and the liver was donated by her 19-year-old son.<br /><br />It took 12 hours for the surgeons to complete each sensitive procedure.<br /><br />Both recipients were brought to Shaikh Zayed Hospital with complete liver failures.<br />The Indian doctors visited Pakistan to perform the transplants at the request of the Pakistani surgeons.<br /><br />Before the arrival of the Indian doctors, surgeons at Shaikh Zayed Hospital finalised arrangements for the sensitive operations and prepared the donors and recipients.<br />The condition of all the recipients and donors was stable and they were kept under observation in intensive care for 24 hours.<br /><br />Consultants were put on high alert for post-operative care of the patients for 24 hours, a highly sensitive period for all who undergo hours-long surgeries.</p>