Along with routine laparoscopic surgery Dr Ravishankar K Diddapur performs advanced laparoscopic hepatobiliary surgeries like
- Laparoscopic Hepatectomy
- laparoscopic deroofing of liver cysts
- Laparoscopic drainage of liver abscess
- Laparoscopic Radio frequency ablation in selected cases of liver tumors
- Laparoscopic ultrasound and liver biopsy
- Laparoscopic pancreatectomy
- Minimally invasive pancreatic necrosectomy
- Laparoscopic Pseudocystogastrostomy
- Laparoscopic surgery for gallstone disease(Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and CBD exploration)
Being trained in advanced specialist surgical units in UK Dr Ravishankar K Diddapur deals with all varieties of hepatobiliary cases and performs complex surgeries. To his credit he has performed laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Jehovah’s Witness patients and also in patients with poor cardiac function with EF of 30%. He has performed similar surgeries in cirrhotic patients and in patients with gangrenous gallbladders. Has conversion rates of less than 5% and has had no bile duct injury or vascular injury over the last 4 years at NUH. He has performed the first in house laparascopic hepatectomy at NUH and also the first minimally invasive pancreatic necrosectomy at NUH, Singapore.
The unit performs complex major surgeries like for
- Gallbladder Cancer in the form of Radical cholecystectomies
- Whipple’s operation – has maintained a nil 30 day mortality over the last 4 years at NUH
- Distal pancreatectomy
- Total pancreatectomy
- Cholangiocarcinomas/Hilar Cholangiocarcinomas
- Redo surgery for biliary stricture
- Surgery and management of portal hypertension related problems
- Surgery for intractable ascites
- Re-exploration surgery for complex Hepato biliary problems