Patient: Banar

Country: Kurdistan, Iraq

Treatment: Liver Problem (Budd Chiari Syndrome)

Doctor: Dr Vivek Vij

Banar, a resident of Kurdistan, Iraq suffered from a liver problem. She and family consulted with doctors in Iraq, who being unsure of the condition recommend them to go to Iran for treatment.

In Iran, doctors performed surgery on her, but it didn’t improve her condition. Then the doctors recommended them to go to India.

In India, she received her medical treatment from Dr Vivek Vij, Director of Liver Transplant Department at FMRI Hospital in Delhi.

Dr Vivek Vij shared, that “She was suffering from a particular disease called Budd Chiari Syndrome. In this disease, all the blood vessels in the body tend to coagulate or clot, especially the veins in the liver. The hepatic veins that take blood out of the liver get damaged and are blocked. As the blood can’t go out of the liver, it enlarges causing damage.”

Before her treatment in India, Banar was on complete bed rest, she even questioned the possibility of ever recovering from her condition. 

“This patient had been suffering from last few years, and she has been given no chance of survival from several transplant centres. When she came to us, we thought that we should give her a chance, although it will be of high risk for undergoing a liver transplant. We planned on performing a special surgery, in which we connected her liver directly to her heart which is very rare technique called hepatic arterial anastomosis. It is a considerably complicated procedure.” Added Dr Vivek Vij.

So, the surgery was performed, and Banar was able to recover really fast after the procedure.