PGIMER Transplant

Renal Transplant Centre is a center of the PGIMER, Chandigarh. Will you please give the list of the doctors of this center? Also please give detail for charges of the services and facilities of the Renal Transplant Centre of PGIMER, Chandigarh.

I am looking for information about Renal Transplant Centre of PGIMER, Chandigarh. So do you have any idea from where I can found information about Renal Transplant Centre of PGIMER, Chandigarh?

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The Renal Transplant Centre of PGIMER, Chandigarh is one of the pioneers in transplantation in India.

The first renal transplant was performed here in June1973.

The department is popular as it performs renal transplants at minimal charges.

The total cost of a standard transplant procedure is around INR 70,000/- including the cost of medicines and 2 weeks of hospital stay for the donor and recipient.

The department has a twelve bedded ICU.

It has experience of performing more than 1500 living as well as cadaver donor renal transplants.

Cadaveric transplantation is also being performed by this Department.

It has also taken a lead in the country regariding use of organs from donors after cardiac death.

The department introduced advanced laparoscopic methods for retrieval of donor kidneys in 2004.

Currently areas of research include:-
Role of anti-HLA antibodies in renal transplantation
Developing a protocol for steroid free immunosuppression in living renal transplantation
C4d deposition in protocol biopsies in renal transplantation
Expression of cytokines in renal transplant rejection
HCV virus dynamics and immune response in post renal transplant recipients

Staff Members:
Name Designation
Prof. Ashish Sharma Professor & Head
Dr. Sarbpreet Singh Assistant Professor
Dr. Deepak B. Kanwar Associate Professor
Dr. Sunil kumar Assistant Professor

Contacts
PGIMER,
Sector-12, Chandigarh,Pin- 160 012, India
Phone: EPBAX: 0091-172-2747585,2747586,2755450
Fax: 0091-172-2744401, 2745078
Email: pgimer-chd[at]nic[dot]in