BRIEF PROFILE

Dr.Vishal Kumar Chorasiya is a well-regarded and highly skilled liver transplant surgeon. He has been professionally working in the field of Liver surgery and transplantation for the past 18 years and has experience in performing more than 4000 liver-related surgeries including 2500+ liver transplants and around 600+ complex liver resections including highly complex isolated caudate, central and segmental liver resections among others. He has done substantial body of work in minimally invasive liver surgery, especially for the living donor with strong experience in laparoscopic donor hepatectomies. His areas of interest include advanced laparoscopic surgeries for pancreas, biliary tree and GI Tract.

He has to his credit numerous international publications in prestigious transplant journals and presentations & lectures at various national and international transplant forums on various liver transplant and laparoscopic donor techniques.

PAST POSITIONS

Senior Consultant, Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Sciences, Fortis Hospital, B-22, Sector 62, Noida 

Senior Consultant (Visiting) Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Sciences, Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla, Delhi 

Senior Consultant (Visiting), Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Sciences, Fortis Memorial & Research Institute (FMRI), Gurugram, Haryana

Senior Consultant (Visiting), Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery: Gleneagles Global Health City, Chennai TN

Senior Consultant (Visiting) Liver Transplant: Choithram Hospital and Research Centre(CHRC), Indore, MP, India

Visiting Faculty for Liver Transplant: Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Kathmandu, Nepal

MEMBERSHIPS

Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)-Lifetime member

Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI): Lifetime member

India Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-surgeons(IAGES): Lifetime member

Liver transplant Society of India (LTSI)-Lifetime member

International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS): Associate member

American College of Surgeons

EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIPS

MBBS (1997-2002): SS Medical College Rewa, MP (APS University, Rewa)

MS (2004-2007): Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, MP (Barkatullah University, Bhopal)

Fellowship in Liver Transplant and GI Surgery (2007-2011): Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi

Fellowship in Robotic Surgery: International College of Robotic Surgeons

Fellowship of Association of Surgeons of India

Fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery (HPB) 

Fellowship of American College of Surgeons 

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Best Surgical Video Award at the 6^th World Congress of International LDLT Group/LTSiCON 2023 Titled “Vascular Stapler Malfunction During Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy”  

Setting up country’s first fully laparoscopic liver donor program as one of the principal surgeon.

Mentoring and help setting up the liver transplant program at TUTH, Kathmandu, Nepal, the largest public sector hospital in Nepal. 

Setting up Liver transplant program at three Fortis group of hospitals in Delhi NCR as senior core member and one of the principal surgeons.

 Gold medal in Anatomy with Distinction.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

 1.   Chorasiya, Vishal Kumar et al. “Duct Division "Before or After Clipping" in Laparoscopic Liver Donors: Overcoming the Dilemma to Quintessential Approach.” Transplantation vol. 106,6 (2022): e317-e318. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000004079

2.    Chorasiya, Vishal et al. “Indocyanine Green Near-Infrared Technology in Demarcating the Midplane During Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy: Useful But Not Necessary.” Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society vol. 27,12 (2021): 1868-1869. doi:10.1002/lt.26248   

3. Singhal A, Makki K, Chorasiya V, et al. Venous outflow reconstruction using a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft in right lobe living donor liver transplantation: A single center study. Surgery. 2021;169(6):1500-1509. doi:10.1016/j.surg.2021.01.011    

4. Singhal A, Sahota GS, Srivastava P, Makki K, Agarwal A, Ali Khan A, Srivastava A, Rodricks S, Jha A, Kumar A, Mohamed Q, Chorasiya V, Rastogi M, Vij V. Living Donor Liver Transplantation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: "Elective" but "Necessary". Transplantation. 2020 Dec;104(12):e351-e353. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003449. PMID: 32890132.

5.    Makki K, Chorasiya V, Srivastava A, Singhal A, Khan AA, Vij V. Analysis of caudate lobe biliary anatomy and its implications in living donor liver transplantation - a single centre prospective study [published online ahead of print, 2018 May 2]. Transpl Int. 2018;10.1111/tri.13272. doi:10.1111/tri.13272

6.    Vij V, Makki K, Chorasiya VK, Sood G, Singhal A, Dargan P. Targeting the Achilles' heel of adult living donor liver transplant: Corner-sparing sutures with mucosal eversion technique of biliary anastomosis. Liver Transpl. 2016;22(1):14-23. doi:10.1002/lt.24343

7.    Makki K, Chorasiya V, Singhal A, Srivastava A, Khan AA, Vij V. Need for Caudate duct classification: God is in the detail and so is the Devil! Transpl Int. 2018 Nov;31(11):1287-1288. doi: 10.1111/tri.13332. PMID: 30118162.

8.    Gupta RK, Gupta G, Chorasiya VK, Bag P, Shandil R, Bhatia V, Wadhawan M, Vij V, Kumar A. Dengue Virus Transmission from Living Donor to Recipient in Liver Transplantation: A Case Report. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2016 Mar;6(1):59-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2016.01.005. Epub 2016 Jan 25. PMID: 27194898; PMCID: PMC4862106.

9.    Makki K, Chorasiya VK, Sood G, Srivastava PK, Dargan P, Vij V. Laparoscopy-assisted hepatectomy versus conventional (open) hepatectomy for living donors: when you know better, you do better. Liver Transpl. 2014;20(10):1229-1236. doi:10.1002/lt.23940

10. Video Presentation on ‘Managing Complex Ductal Anatomy in Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy’ at Virtual LTSICON 2021, Mumbai.

11. Poster Presentation on "Creation of Duplicate MHV: Is It an End to MHV Controversy?" ILTS 2013 Sydney.

12. Poster Presentation on ‘Exercise training to increase liver volume in donors with small liver volume’. IHPBA, Indian Chapter, 2010, New Delhi and APASL, Bangkok, 2011

13. Poster Presentation ‘30 Consecutive pediatric liver transplants without HAT’. IHPBA, Indian Chapter, New Delhi, Co-Author

14. Oral Presentation ‘Arterial reconstruction in LRLT, complications and outcome’. IHPBA, Indian Chapter, 2010, New Delhi

15. Oral Presentation ‘Vascular reconstruction with donor inflow anomaly in LRLT’. ISOT 2010, Hyderabad

16. Role of hepatic resection in hepatocellular carcinoma with underlying cirrhosis.(IASG 2010, Hyderabad)

17. Poster ‘Chylous ascites is benign post liver transplant’. IASG 2010,Hyderabad and APASL Bangkok, 2011, Co-Author

18. Presentation ‘Role of hepatic resection in hepatocellular carcinoma with underlying cirrhosis’. IASG 2010, Hyderabad

19. Oral presentation on ‘Complex portal reconstruction in absent main right portal vein in LRLT’. IASG 2010, Hyderabad

20. Poster presentation ‘Role of hepatobiliary scintigraphy in detection of bile leaks after right lobe donor hepatectomy’. ILTS 2010, Hongkong

21. Presentation ‘Managing challenges in arterial reconstruction in LDLT-Our experience with 239 cases’.ILTS 2010,Honkong

22. Poster presentation ‘Management of extensive portal vein thrombus involving the mesoaxial junction during living related liver transplantation- Case report’.IASG 2009, Mumbai

23. Poster presentation ‘Ectopic pancreas at ampulla of vater presenting as periampullary tumor-A case report’.(IASG 2009, Mumbai)

24. Oral presentation ‘Management of Portal vein thrombosis in recipients and its implications’. IASG 2009, Mumbai25. Oral presentation ‘Alternative arterial in flow in adult living donor liver transplant’. IASG 2009, Mumbai

26. Poster presentation ‘Outcome of patients with Preoperative bilirubin >20mg% in LDLT’. INASL. 2009, New Delhi

27. Poster presentation ‘Annular pancreas presenting as a case of pancreatolithiasis in adult-Case report’.IASG 2008, Chennai

28. Poster presentation ‘Liver resection without porta dissection in the era of liver transplantation’. IASG 2008, Chennai

29. Poster presentation ‘Role of glutamine dipeptide after abdominal surgeries’ MPASICON 2007, Indore