Dr. Basant Mahadevappa

• Dr. Basant Mahadevappa is a skilled HPB and liver transplant surgeon who specializes in performing laparoscopic & robotic liver resections. He is available for consultations at HCG Cancer Hospital, P. Kalinga Rao Road, and HCG Cancer Hospital, a newly launched cancer hospital in North Bangalore.

• He has vast experience in performing living donor liver transplantation, living and deceased donor kidney transplantation, deceased donor pancreas transplantation, and Islet stem cell transplantation.

• He is trained and experienced in performing the following robotic, laparoscopic, and open hepatopancreatobiliary surgeries:

1. Whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomy

2. Spleen-sparing distal pancreatectomies

3. ALPSS (associating liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy): the highest series in India

4. Surgeries on hilar cholangiocarcinomas (CCA)

5. Radical cholecystectomy (gallbladder cancer)

6. Right and left hepatectomies, extended right and left hepatectomies, central hepatectomies, segmental liver resections (for hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal liver metastases, neuroendocrine liver metastases, hemangioma, biliary hamartoma, and hydatid cyst of liver-related surgery)

7. Esophagectomies, gastrectomies, colectomies, and small bowel resections

• He also specializes in performing percutaneous procedures of the liver, biliary system, and pancreas, like microwave and radiofrequency ablations, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD), transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt (TIPSS), percutaneous ultrasonogram, and CT-guided biopsies and drainage of the liver and pancreatic lesions.

Academic Contributions

Oral Presentations:

• Presentation on “Comparison Between Conventional Dressing and Opsite Dressings for Donor Site Areas After Split Skin Grafting” at the Association of Surgeons of India annual conference (2005).

• “Evaluation of Outcome of Pediatric Donors Less Than 2 Years in Kidney Transplantation: Single and En Bloc." Presented at ASTS Winter Symposium 2011.

• “Technical Nuances in Resections for Hilar Liver Obstruction: Pushing Boundaries With Adjuvant Treatment.” Presented at HPB April 2016

Poster Presentations:

• “Do Hep C Patients Do Better With Older Male Donors Than Female?” - presented at ASTS Winter Symposium in Florida in January 2010.

• “The Efficacy of Using Imported Liver for Transplantation” - presented at ILTS, Valencia, Spain, 2011.

• “Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Total Tumor Volume in Liver Transplantation” - presented at ILTS, San Francisco, 2012.

• “Partial Regression of Multinodular - Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Discontinuing Androgen Supplementation: A Case Report” - presented at ILTS, San Francisco, 2012

Training and Certifications

• Dr. Basant has completed his certification program on transplantations from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS).

• He has received his training in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery from New York Medical College.

• Dr. Basant has also completed his training in percutaneous interventional surgery at IRCAD, Strasbourg, France.

• He has received his robotic surgery training from Asan Medical Center, South Korea.

Recognition

• He has attended several national and international CMEs and conferences.

• Dr. Basant has been recognized by numerous reputed medical associations, namely, the Indian Liver Transplantation Society; the American Society of Transplant Surgeons; the American Society of Transplantation; the International Liver Transplantation Society; the American HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association; the International HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association; IRCAD, Strasbourg, France; and New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA, to name a few.