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Dr. Fadl H Veerankutty
Consultant in Gastrointestinal Surgery, HPB & Liver Transplantation

General Details

Consultant in Gastrointestinal Surgery, HPB & Liver Transplantation

Dr Fadl H Veerankutty comes with more than 8 years of experience in the field of liver transplantation and gastrointestinal surgery. He started his career in gastrointestinal surgery and liver transplantation in 2014 in the department of hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) and liver transplant surgery at Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum. He completed hands on advanced training in HPB surgery and liver transplantation from the prestigious Dr. Rela institute, Chennai under Prof. Rela, a pioneer in liver transplantation. While working at Dr. Rela institute (one of the largest centres in the world for paediatric liver transplantation), he gathered extensive experience in the paediatric liver transplantation and robotic donor hepatectomy. Before joining Rela Institute, he had been working as a consultant in liver transplantation at VPS Lakeshore, Cochin. During his tenure at Aster Medcity, Cochin, he sharpened his skills in minimally invasive gastrointestinal oncosurgery. He is a reviewer for many reputed national and international journals and is being invited by international medical journals to write expert reviews on various topics related to gastroenterology and hepatology. He has bagged many awards in various national and state level surgical conferences. His areas of interests are living donor liver transplantation, and minimally invasive HPB oncosurgery.

Qualifications

MBBS, MS (General Surgery), DNB – SS (GI Surgery), FMAS, Post-Doctoral Fellowship in HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation (Dr. Rela Institute)
Achievements
- Presentations
International Level
1. Speaker at the Vanguard session of the International Liver Transplantation Society Annual Congress, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.
2. The Application of Blower-Mister in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. International Society of Liver Surgeons conference, 2021, Busan, South Korea.
National level
1. Best surgical oral video- IASGCON 2020, AIIMS NEWDELHI
2. Best Surgical E-video- IASGCON 2019, PGI CHANDIGARH
State Level
1. Best oral paper- Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation; Incidence and its effect on the outcome, ASGKGCON
2. Best oral video- Laparoscopic Median pancreatectomy, ASGKGCON
3. First prize- Quiz Competition- ASGKGCON 2020
Professional affiliations
1. The International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
2. The International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Group (iLDLTG)
3. The International Society of Liver Surgeons (ISLS)
4. Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)
5. Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)The Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
Publications
Publications Link- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YXe6GR0AAAAJ&hl=en
1. First report of auxiliary liver transplantation for severe cholangiopathy after SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection. American journal of transplantation (official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons) 2022-08. DOI: 10.1111/ajt.17165
2. Artificial intelligence in hepatology, liver surgery and transplantation: Emerging applications and frontiers of research. Invited review articles. Fadl H Veerankutty et al. World Journal of Hepatology DOI: 10.4254/WJH.V13.I12.1977
1. Oncological adequacy of laparoscopic rectal cancer resection: an audit in Indian perspective. Journal of minimal access surgery, DOI:10.4103/jmas.JMAS_272_18. (Official journal of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons)
1. Laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal bleeding in Klippel-Trenaunay Syndromea video Colorectal Disease (Official journal of The European Society of Coloproctology). (https://doi.org/10.1111/codi.14885).
1. Preoperative Graft Weight Prediction Using Donor Biometrics in Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Are They Accurate? FH Veerankutty, N Medappil, R Sandhyav, R Lochan, S Asthana, J Reddy, Mathew Jacob. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology 9 (3), 443 (Official journal the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver).
1. Exploring minimally invasive options: Laparoscopic transabdominal levator transection for low rectal cancers. Journal of minimal access surgery (Official journal of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons). DOI: 4103/jmas.JMAS_130_18
1. IgG4-related disease of the appendix. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 22 (6), 1124-1126, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-017-3636-2 (Official journal of the global Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, USA).
1. Hepatoid carcinoma of the pancreas combined with serous cystadenoma: a case report and review of the literature. Veerankutty FH, Yeldho V, TU SA, Venugopal B, Manoj KS, Vidhya C. HepatoBiliary Surg Nutr doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2304-3881.2015.05.02
1. How We Do IT. Reconstruction of a Rare Variant of Left Hepatic Vein in a Left Lateral Segment Liver Graft from a Living Donor - Technical Notes. Veerankutty FH, TU SA, Venugopal B, Manoj KS. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 21:41–43. DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.171938. PMID: 26862296.
10.Median Pancreatectomy Done in a Rural Medical College – A Case Report.Gowtham Kishore, Fadl H Veerankutty, Nitin Ramesh, Culas TB. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology. Aug 2015.

doi: 1007/s13193-015- 0439-3

11.Multicentric Jejunal and Omental GIST with an Unusual Clinical Presentation—A Case Report. Iqbal A, Veerankutty FH, Sulfekar MS, Culas TB. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2014;5(1):78-80. doi:10.1007/s13193-014-0292-9.
Experience
1. Consultant- GI surgery and liver transplantation- Comprehensive liver care, VPS Lakeshore hospital, Cochin.
2. Consultant, Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary surgery, Travancore Medicity, Kollam, Kerala.