Dr Mahesh Gopasetty
HOD & Lead Consultant – Liver Transplant & HPB Surgeon
Speciality
HPB Surgery
Qualification
  • MBBS
  • MS (Gen. Surgery)
  • M.R.C.S (Gen. Surgery)
  • Fellowship in Multi Organ Transplantation (South Carolina)
  • Fellowship in Paediartic Multiviscereal Transplantation (Pittsburg)
Gender
Male
Language Spoken
English
Kannada
Hindi

Dr Mahesh Gopasetty - HPB Surgery Specialist

  • About
  • Experience
  • Achievements
  • Publications

About

Dr. Mahesh Gopashetty is an accomplished transplant and HPB surgeon with extensive expertise in multiorgan transplantation. He currently leads the Multiorgan Transplant Program at Gleneagles BGS Hospital (a Fortis Network Hospital), Kengeri, Bengaluru. Dr. Gopashetty's clinical outcomes consistently benchmark against the highest-performing transplant centres globally, reflecting his commitment to surgical excellence, rigorous patient selection, and multidisciplinary care. 


With over 1,000 liver transplants, 30 pancreas transplants, and 3 small intestine transplants performed as an independent consultant, Dr. Gopashetty's volume of experience is unmatched in the region. He is among an exceptionally rare group of surgeons in India to have successfully performed

 

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Liver transplantation (adults & children)

  • Kidney transplantation

  • Pancreas transplantation

  • Small bowel transplantation

  • Multi visceral transplantation (liver, pancreas, intestine en bloc)

  • Domino liver transplant (cadaver donor)

  • En bloc simultaneous heart and liver transplant

  • HPB surgery

  • Separation of conjoined twins (omphalopagus)

 

Experience

  • Head and Consultant, Multiorgan Transplant and HPB Surgeon, Fortis Hospitals, Bengaluru

  • Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals (Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Karnataka; also provided services at Madurai, Kolkata, Mumbai)

Achievements

  • Gold Medal for Best Out-going Postgraduate Student in Surgery – Manipal Academy of Higher Education University (2002)

  • Second Prize – Resident’s Research Recognition Day, Medical University of South Carolina (2009)

  • Third Place – Association of Surgeons of India, National Postgraduate Surgical Quiz Regional Selection Round (2001)

  • Led team to complete 100 pediatric liver transplants in 5 years at Fortis Hospital

  • Performed over 1000 liver transplants, 30 pancreas transplants, 3 small intestine transplants as independent consultant

  • Notable surgical cases: Domino liver transplant, multivisceral transplant, en bloc heart-liver transplant, separation of conjoined twins

Publications

  • Supra Hepatic Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis- Surgical Challenges – Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Dec 2016

  • Initial poor function and primary non function in deceased donor orthotopic liver transplantation... – Prog Transplant, Aug 2016

  • Role of Quantiferon TB Test in Identifying Patients at Risk For Reactivation of Tuberculosis in Liver Transplant Recipients in an Endemic Setting – American Journal of Transplantation, Jun 2014

  • Evaluation of P-Possum Mortality Predictor Equation and its use as a Tool in Surgical Audit – The Internet Journal of Surgery, 2003

  • Abdominal epilepsy and foreign body in the abdomen – dilemma in diagnosis of abdominal pain – a case report – Yonsei Med J, 2005

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