Dr. Vikram Raut

Dr. Vikram Raut is a Liver Transplant Surgeon with 10+ years of experience in the field.

He has been the Member of the website committee of ILTS (2013-2015) and also the Member of Vanguard committee of ILTS (2010-2013).

He has extensive experience of Living-donor liver transplantation with cumulative experience of over 1000 liver transplants.

After completing his surgical training at B.Y. L Nair hospital Mumbai, he went to Kyoto University Hospital, Japan for a Fellowship in liver transplantation.

He also has had training in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery from Hospital Beaujon, Paris, France, and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.

Dr. Raut has special interest in ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation, Small-for-Size Syndrome, Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular carcinoma and Laparoscopic/Robotic Liver Surgery

He has authored and co-authored books and articles in national and international journals.

• MBBS

• MS, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences

• “International Travel Scholar Award 2010” given by International Liver transplantation society, (ILTS) for clinical training in Liver Transplantation.

• “Takeda Science Foundation Scholar” given by Takeda Science Foundation, Osaka, Japan for research on the need of splenectomy in ABO-incompatible liver transplantation with pre-operative Rituximab prophylaxis.

• “EASL Young Investigator Award 2011” by European Association for the study of Liver Disease (EASL), at Berlin, Germany in March 2011.

• “Travel award by Japan Surgical Society” at 114th JSS Annual conference at Kyoto, Japan 2014.

• “Best oral presentation” at XXIII National Conference of Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Ahmadabad 2014.

• “Tata Scholarship” award given by J. N. Tata Endowment Mumbai, India.

• Splenectomy does not offer immunological benefits in ABO-incompatible liver transplantation with preoperative rituximab. Raut V, Mori A, Kaido T, Ogura Y, Taku I, Nagai K, et al. Transplantation. 2012;93(1):99-105.

• Management of ABO-incompatible living-donor liver transplantation: past and present trends. Raut V, Uemoto S. Surgery Today. S. 2011;41(3):317-22.

• "Inherent limitations" in donors: control matched study of consequences following a right hepatectomy for living donation and benign liver lesions. Belghiti J, Liddo G, Raut V, Zappa M, Dokmak S, Vilgrain V, et al. Annals of surgery. 2012;255(3):528-33.

• Clinical significance of liver ischemia after pancreatic resectionTakaori K, Raut V, Uemoto S. (Br J Surgery 2011; 98: 1760-1765). The British journal of surgery. 2012;99 (4):597-8.

• Surgical approach to preventing small-for-size syndrome in the recipient after left lobe adult-LDLT. Vikram Raut, Ruslan Alikhanov, Jacques Belghiti, Shinji Uemoto. Surgery today, 44(7), 1189-1196

• Laparoscopic Left Lateral Resection Is Gold Standard for Benign Liver Lesion: Control Matched Study. Safi Dokmak, Vikram Raut, Beatrice A, Sammir F, Belghiti J, HPB. 2014, 16 (2): 183-187

• Beneficial effects of splenectomy on liver regeneration in a rat model of massive hepatectomy. Ren YS, Qian NS, Tang Y, Liao YH, Liu WH, Raut V, et al. Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international: HBPD INT. 2012;11(1):60-5

• Comprehensive application of modern technologies in precise liver resection.Qian NS, Liao YH, Cai SW, Raut V, Dong JH. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int. 2013 Jun;12(3):244-50.

• SIRS refines Kings College Criteria for transplantation of patients with acute liver failure. Vikram Raut, N Saraf, S Saigal, N Mohan, AS Soin et. al (In press)

• Intra-Gastric Balloon as a Novel Modality for Weight Loss in Patients With Cirrhosis And Morbid Obesity Awaiting Liver TransplantationClinical Transplantation (In press)

• Lower Relapse Rates with Good Post-Transplant Outcome in Alcoholic Liver Disease: Experience from a Living Donor Liver Transplant CenterJournal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (In Press).