First cadaver liver transplant at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences

Hyderabad: Nims doctors on Saturday conducted their first cadaver liver transplantation under the Jeevandan scheme. The liver from a brain dead youth, engineering student P. Abhijeet, 20, was transplanted to a 60-year-old man who had liver cancer and cirrhosis.

The transplant was carried out by surgical gastroenterology head Dr Bheerappa and liver transplantation surgeon Dr Tom Cherian. Abhijeet, a student of Manipal University, had come home to West Maredpally on a holiday.

He died following a car accident on July 30. His parents and sister  agreed to donate his heart, liver, two kidney’s and eyes.