Dr. Rajgopal Acharya M

Senior Consultant – Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery

General Surgery

Gleneagles Global Hospital - Hyderabad, India

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Qualification

MS, FACS, FMAS, FIAGES, FALS – HPB.

Languages

English Telugu Hindi

Work Experience

11 Years Experience Overall (8 years as specialist)

Research Experience

• Living Donor Liver Transplant for Budd-Chiari Syndrome Without Caval Replacement: A Single-Center Study. May 2021. Experimental and Clinical Transplantation.
• Do Natural Portosystemic Shunts Need to Be Compulsorily Ligated in Living Donor Liver
• Transplantation?. April 2021. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
• Protocol to ensure continued paediatric liver transplantation service during the COVID pandemic and the encouraging outcomes. March 2021. Paediatric Transplantation 25(13)
• Living Donor Liver Transplant in patients with Hepatorenal syndrome without the use of Intraoperative Renal Replacement Therapy
a single center experience”. February 2021. Clinical Transplantation 35(5)
• -Pancreaticojejunostomy for Pancreatico-enteric Anastomosis after Pancreaticoduodenectomy: one procedure with multiple techniques. October 2020.
• Living Donor Liver Transplant for Dengue-Related Acute Liver Failure: A Case Report. September 2020.
• Experimental and Clinical Transplantation 19(2).
• Primary Hepatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST): Unusual Presentation and Diagnosis 2020. Journal of International Cancer.
• Outcome of Paediatric Liver transplants in Patients with Less than 10 kg of Body Weight Is Not Worse. August 2020. Experimental and Clinical Transplantation 18(6):707-711
• Co-author- Pelvic Exenteration with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (CRS+HIPEC) for rectal Cancer-case series with Review of Literature in Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology.
• Abstract Outflow Reconstruction in LDLT published in Symposium of Journal of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Sciences
Volume 24
Issue 1
May 2017
accepted in 6th A-PHPBA / 29th JSHBPS.
• Corresponding author of chapter Middle Vein in Live Donor Liver Transplantation: under publication.
• E-poster presentation in RGCON2018
Delhi. Topic: Differentiating Neuroendocrine Tumours of The Liver
Primary Versus Secondary; a Continuum Diagnosis.
• E-poster presentation in MCLD2018
Chennai. Topic: Persistent Ascites After Liver Transplantation.
• Oro-Poster presentation in Annual Meeting of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 2017. Topic: Primary Neuroendocrine tumour of the liver
a case report.
• Abstract Primary Neuroendocrine tumour of the liver
a case report
published in Indian Journal Of Transplantation; Volume 11
issue 4; Oct-Dec 2017.
• As 1st author in an International Publication: Honey As A Wound Debridement Agent in Wound Technology: Debridement 2; Issue 21
July 2013
• As 1st author- Role Of Colour Doppler Ultrasonography In Differentiating Malignant From Benign Thyroid Nodules in IJANS ISSN(P):2319-4014; Impact Factor (JCC):2.9459.
• As a co-author- Comparison Of Outcomes (Early And Late) Following Open And Laparoscopic Repair Of Inguinal Hernias: An Experience Of A Single Surgical Unit in IMPACT:IJRANSS; Vol 2
Issue 2
163-168.
• As a co-author- Antimicrobial Properties Of Honey And Its Mechanism: A Review in IJANS ISSN(P):2319- 4014; Impact Factor (JCC):2.9459.
• As a co-author of chapter "Diabetic Foot And Its Complications" in book entitled FUNDAMENTAL OF DIABETES (ISBN: 9789352501519).
• Poster presentation in UPASICON 2014
Aligarh. Topic 1: Malignant tumors of the appendix
presentation and management: a review. Topic 2: Study of Duplex Scan In The Evaluation Of Thyroid Swelling.

Awards & Achivements

• First Prize in poster presentation during surgical residency
UPASICON 2014
o Topic: Malignant tumors of the appendix
presentation and management: a review1
• First Prize in Video Presentation in LTSICON 2021.
o Topic: Medial Reduction of Left Lateral Segment Grafts for Small Infants

Area of Interest

• Liver Disease Treatment
• Laparoscopic Surgery
• Splenectomy
• Trauma Surgery
• Gall Bladder (Biliary) Stone Treatment
• Robotic Surgery
• Hepatitis D Treatment
• Hepatitis C Treatment
• Hepatitis A Treatment
• Hepatitis B Treatment

He is deeply interested and involved in hepatopancreaticobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. He has been involved in more than 1400 liver transplantation surgeries which include some of the rarest liver surgeries like dual lobe liver transplants, ABO incompatible liver transplants, domino liver transplants and swap pair exchange transplants. He has good experience in adult as well as pediatric liver transplantations. He is also trained in HPB oncosurgery at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and is experienced in treating cancers of the liver, pancreas and biliary system. He has always been keen to upgrade his skills and extend the benefit to his patients for which he has updated himself with the latest technical knowledge through fellowships in minimally invasive HPB surgery. He has been involved in laparoscopic as well as robotic donor hepatectomy surgeries. He is a trained robotic surgeon and well-versed with robotic HPB surgeries on the DaVinci platform.