This page lists the liver transplant & hpb hospitals in our directory offering Pancreas Transplant in Chennai, India, including Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Gleneagles Global Hospital, Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, SIMS Hospital and others. Each listing links through to the hospital's full profile page.
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🇮🇳 Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road's care team in Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, accredited by JCI, NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 Gleneagles Global Hospital
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by Gleneagles Global Hospital's care team in Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Gleneagles Global Hospital, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre's care team in Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, accredited by NABH, NABL, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 SIMS Hospital
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by SIMS Hospital's care team in Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. SIMS Hospital, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 Sankara Nethralaya
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by Sankara Nethralaya's care team in Nungambakkam, Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Sankara Nethralaya, accredited by NABH, NABL, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 Apollo First Med Hospitals, Kilpauk
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by Apollo First Med Hospitals, Kilpauk's care team in Kilpauk, Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Apollo First Med Hospitals, Kilpauk, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 MIOT International
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by MIOT International's care team in Manapakkam, Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. MIOT International, accredited by NABH, NABL, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
🇮🇳 MGM Healthcare
Patients considering pancreas transplant can be cared for by MGM Healthcare's care team in Chennai, India, from initial consultation through recovery. MGM Healthcare, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing pancreas transplant.
How we selected these hospitals
A hospital appears on this page when Liver Transplant & HPB is among its listed specialties and it is located in Chennai, India. Hospitals are not ranked by a proprietary "best" score — the order follows the listed rating (highest first), the same field shown on each hospital's profile.
How to Select the Best Hospital for Pancreas Transplant in Chennai, India?
Choosing the right hospital for pancreas transplant is one of the most important decisions in your treatment journey. A few factors are worth weighing before you decide:
International Accreditation
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Specialization
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Capacity and Track Record
Bed count and year established (shown below for each hospital) are a reasonable proxy for scale and operating experience.
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Understanding Pancreas Transplant
Pancreas transplant surgery is a life-altering procedure that restores endogenous insulin production in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes—most commonly Type 1—and those with chronic pancreatitis leading to total pancreatic endocrine failure.
Clinical Overview
- The pancreas serves a dual physiological role: its exocrine component produces digestive enzymes essential for nutrient absorption, while its endocrine islet cells—specifically the beta cells of the Islets of Langerhans—secrete insulin and glucagon to maintain glycemic homeostasis.
- In Type 1 diabetes mellitus, autoimmune destruction of beta cells leads to absolute insulin deficiency, forcing patients into lifelong exogenous insulin dependency with attendant risks of hypoglycemic unawareness, diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy, and cardiovascular disease.
- In advanced cases of chronic pancreatitis or post-total pancreatectomy states, both exocrine and endocrine function are lost simultaneously.
Who is a Candidate?
- IDEAL CANDIDATES:
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus with absolute insulin deficiency confirmed by low fasting C-peptide levels (<0.3 ng/mL)
- Brittle (labile) diabetes with recurrent, severe hypoglycemia or hypoglycemic unawareness unresponsive to optimal medical management including continuous glucose monitors and closed-loop insulin pump systems
- Diabetic nephropathy with eGFR <20 mL/min/1.73m² (SPK) or functioning renal allograft (PAK)
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Treatment Options & Approaches
- SIMULTANEOUS PANCREAS-KIDNEY (SPK) TRANSPLANT — STANDARD APPROACH: The SPK procedure is performed under general anesthesia via a midline or bilateral lower-quadrant laparotomy.
- The pancreatic allograft (procured with the duodenal segment intact) is implanted in the right iliac fossa with arterial reconstruction using a donor Y-graft (iliac artery bifurcation) anastomosed end-to-side to the recipient right common or external iliac artery.
- Venous drainage is achieved via end-to-side anastomosis to the right common iliac vein (systemic drainage) or, at select centers using the portal-enteric drainage technique, to the superior mesenteric vein for more physiological insulin delivery directly into the portal circulation.
Recovery
- PHASE 1 — REMOTE EVALUATION (Weeks 1–3 before travel): Patients submit medical records, recent labs, imaging, and cardiac evaluation results to the GAF Healthcare clinical coordination team.
- A senior transplant nephrologist and pancreatic transplant surgeon review the case remotely.
- Virtual consultation is scheduled to confirm candidacy, discuss procedure type (SPK/PAK/PTA), review waitlist logistics (deceased donor) or living-related evaluation, and issue a detailed cost estimate and preliminary treatment plan.
Risks to be aware of
- Pancreas transplantation carries a defined risk profile that patients must understand and weigh against the long-term burden of insulin-dependent diabetes and its complications.
- Surgical risks include vascular thrombosis of the graft (affecting 5–10% of cases and often requiring urgent re-exploration or graft loss), anastomotic leak at the duodeno-jejunostomy (1–5%), intra-abdominal bleeding, and wound infection—rates are higher than many solid organ transplants due to the contaminated duodenal segment.
Why GAF Healthcare
- GAF Healthcare provides comprehensive non-medical coordination to ensure that international patients can focus entirely on their treatment and recovery.
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This page lists 8 accredited liver transplant & hpb hospitals in Chennai, India, so you can compare accreditation, specialties and bed capacity in one place.
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