Dr Arvinder Singh Soin has performed nearly 1200 liver transplants in India, the maximum in the country. Liver transplantation team at Medanta currently performs 25 live donor liver transplants every month with 95% success results; at par with the world’s best liver transplantaion centres. As a practice the team not only treats referrals from India; but also handles cases from the rest of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Dr AS Soin awarded the Padma Shri in 2010 for pioneering the development of Liver Transplantation in India.
Dr A S Soin is recognized all over the world over for his pioneering work in establishing liver transplantation in India. From 2001 to mid-2010, he established a big liver transplant centre at Sir Gangaram Hospital. However, in June 2010, he moved with his entire team toMedanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon (Delhi-NCR). Medanta at the current bed strength of 925 (and soon to be 1500) is one of the largest and the most modern tertiary care hospitals in the country, where Dr. Soin has established a 150-bedded (including 36 Liver ICU beds) dedicated Liver Treatment facility, carrying out 250 liver transplants and hundreds of complex liver and biliary tract surgeries every year.
Milestones
- First successful cadaveric liver transplant in India – 1998
- First successful live donor left lobe liver transplant in India – 1999
- First successful live donor right lobe liver transplant in India – 2000
- First successful combined liver and kidney transplant (cadaver) in India – 1999
- First successful reduced cadaveric liver transplant in a child – 2003
- First successful transplant in India on a Pakistani patient – 2004
- First bloodless liver transplant in India – 2005
- World’s first combined liver and kidney transplant in the same patient using organs from two live donors – 2007
- India’s first successful dual lobe liver transplant – 2007
- India’s first and world’s youngest Domino liver transplant – 2009
- India’s first (and the world’s first reported) successful swap liver transplant – 2009
- India’s oldest recipient (78 years) of liver transplant – successful transplant in 2010
- India’s first successful Robotic live donor liver transplant – 2012
- World’s first chain of three simultaneous liver transplants (combined domino and swap) – 2012
- India’s first successful ABO-incompatible liver transplants – 2012
- India’s youngest and smallest ever recipient (4 months, 4 kg) to receive successful liver transplant – 2013.
- India’s first surgeon to complete 1000 liver transplants and 100 liver transplants in children 2011 and first to complete 1500 liver transplants in 2013
- India’s first successful Intestinal Transplant – 2013
Memberships
- Life member of Association of Surgeons of India
- British Transplantation Society
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
- Indian Society of Gastroenterology
- Indian Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Indian Society of Nephrology
- Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology
- Asian Society of Organ Transplantation
- International Society of Liver Transplantation
- Founder Member and Trustee of the Human Organ Procurement and Education (HOPE) Trust