Where does Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela practice

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela practices at Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai

What is the specialty of Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela specialty is Liver Transplant Surgeon

What is the experience of Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela is Liver Transplant Surgeon with 31 years of experience.

What does a Liver Transplant surgeon do?

Liver transplant surgeons are specially trained doctors who perform the surgery and provide care before and after the transplant.

Which tests/ investigations are generally required by the liver transplant surgeon?

Investigations like Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of abdomen or pelvis, Computed tomography (CT) scan of abdomen or pelvis, Dobutamine stress echocardiogram (DSE), Ultrasound, Electrocardiogram, Colonoscopy, Mammogram, and blood tests.

Can you get a liver transplant if you are an alcoholic?

You can get but in there is poor prognosis.

What are matching creiterion for liver donor and liver recipient?

For the liver donor, criteria includes a compatible blood type and body size having no serious medical condition such as liver disease, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer and should be aged between 18 to 60 and for liver recipient a OPTN's computer system is followed which matches the donor's organs to potential recipients.

How long can you live after a liver transplant?

Usually, about 75% of people who undergo liver transplant live for at least five years.

Dr. Mohamed Rela

MBBS, MS – General Surgery, Fellowship
HOD & Senior Consultant – HPB & Liver Surgery

Liver Transplant Specialist- 33 Years of Experience

Doctor Profile

Dr. Mohamed Rela, is an Indian surgeon known for his expertise on Liver transplantation, Hepatopancreatobiliary. He is one of the World’s top liver transplant surgeons from the King’s College Hospital, London. He made his name in the Guinness Book of Records in 2000. He is now the Head of the Department for Institute of Liver, Pancreas diseases and Transplantation, Global Hospitals & Health City Group in Chennai.

Education

MBBS – Stanley Medical College, University of Madras, India
MS – General Surgery – University of Madras, 1987
Fellowship – Royal Collage of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Dr. Christopher Taylor Barry with world famous liver transplant surgeon Dr. Prof. Mohamed Rela at Global Health City Chennai along with the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital Liver Transplant Team

Background

Rela was born in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in Tamil Nadu, India. He was a student from the Kalakshetra School, Chennai and got his MBBS (in 1980) and MS degree from the Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Later he went to the United Kingdom in 1986 and got another MS from Edinburgh and then became an Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988.

Career

After getting an FRCS, he has worked in various hospitals in UK before joining the King’s College Hospital. In 1994, he joined the KCH (where the first liver transplant was done in 1989) and became actively involved in the liver transplant surgeries. At the KCH, he pioneered the split liver transplantation technique, which involves the division of a healthy donor organ to help transplant it to two patients. While he is now affiliated to Global Hospitals & Health City in Chennai, he still works at King’s College Hospital, in UK.

He also has special interest towards Whipple procedure (also known as Pancreaticoduodenectomy) with PVR (Portal Vein Resection) which is usually done for patients with Pancreatic Cancer either in locally advanced stage or advanced stage. He has written a number of scientific articles and papers on his areas of interests which includes Liver transplantation, Complex Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic surgery and more.

Achievements

Dr. Mohamed Rela has so far performed more than 1200 liver transplant surgeries.
In Dec 1997, a team led by him has done a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl, which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.
In Mar 1999, ha carried out the first living related Liver Transplant on a patient with acute Liver Failure in the UK. 18 Month old Luke Bettelley was given just 48 hours to live before the operation.
In Jun 2003, he has successfully done a liver transplant for a four-and-a-half-year-old girl from Ahmedabad, Pranali Bhat, suffering from a terminal stage liver disease, at the Global Hospital, Hyderabad.
In Aug 2003, he was a part of a team from King’s College Hospital, London which did liver transplant(s) six times for a patient to save her life by performing a bone marrow transplant.
In Aug 2004, a team led by him has successfully conducted the liver transplantation for a five-year-old Pakistan girl, Batul Hasan, at the Global Hospital, Hyderabad.
In Sep 2009, a team led by him has successfully done the split liver transplantation (first of its kind in India), at the Global Hospital, Chennai. The liver was split during the retrieval operation into a smaller left lobe for transplanting a young girl and a larger right lobe for transplanting an older woman with end stage liver disease.

About Doctor

Currently associated as Head & Chief Surgeon with Department of HPB & Liver Transplant Surgery at Global Hospitals, Chennai
Renowned surgeon known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery and performed more than 3000 liver transplant surgeries so far
In Dec 1997, a team led by him has done a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl, which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000
Carried out the first living related Liver Transplant on a patient with acute Liver Failure in the UK
Successfully done a liver transplant for a four-and-a-half-year-old girl suffering from a terminal stage liver disease
Participated as part of a team from King’s College Hospital, London which did liver transplant(s) six times for a patient to save her life by performing a bone marrow transplant
A team led by him has successfully done Swap liver transplantation on Adults (first of its kind in India), at Global Hospitals & Health city, Chennai
Research interest is in the field of liver regeneration and harnessing its potential in making liver surgery safer for liver donors, liver recipients and for patients with advanced liver tumors

Master Forat Oday, age 2 from Baghdad underwent successful Liver Transplantation by Dr. Mohamed Rela and his team at Global Health CiMaster Forat Oday, age 2 from Baghdad underwent successful Liver Transplantation by Dr. Mohamed Rela and his team at Global Health City, Chennai, Indiaty, Chennai, India

Experience

HPB & Liver Surgery, HOD & Senior Consultant- Global Hospital, Chennai , currently working
HPB & Liver Transplant Surgery, Head & Chief- Global Hospitals, Mumbai , currently working
HPB & Liver Transplant Surgery, Head & Chief- Global Hospitals, Lakdi-ka-pul , currently working

2 yrs old Sri Lankan, Master. Yalagalage Tharul Methmina Peiris underwent a successful Liver Transplant Surgery at Global Health City, Chennai, India. Team headed by Dr. Mohamed Rela.

Publications

In Scientific Commons
Results of Split Liver Transplantation in Children
Split Liver Transplantation: King’s College Hospital Experience
Liver transplantation in children
Liver transplantation for alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency in children
Renal biopsy in liver transplant recipients
A complication of infrarenal arterial conduit following orthotopic liver transplant
Liver transplantation with monosegments
Auxiliary Partial Orthotopic Liver Transplantation for Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type
Biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation
Reducing Bile Leak Following Segmental Liver Transplantation: Understanding Biliary Anatomy of the Caudate Lobe
Overcoming the limitations of living donor and split liver transplantation: A proposal for adult recipients (the best of the east in the west)
Liver transplant for giant cell hepatitis with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
Pretransplant MELD score and post Liver transplantation survival in the UK and Ireland
Liver resection in liver transplant recipients
Pancreaticoduodenectomy with radical lymphadenectomy is not contraindicated for patients with established chronic liver disease and portal hypertension
Managing Arterial Collaterals Due to Coeliac Axis Stenosis During Pancreaticoduodenectomy