Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi

Associate Consultant

16 Years of Experience

HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon

MBBS, MS, M.Ch, DNB, FAMS, FALS, FACS

Rela Hospital, Chennai

English, Hindi, Tamil

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About Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi

Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi is a well-known Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon with 16 years of experience.
His areas of expertise include advanced laparoscopic surgeries and has performed 1000+ laparoscopic surgeries.
He has an impressive record of over 3,000 successful surgeries and more than 5,000 patients who have recovered through his dedicated treatment plans.
Dr. Prithviraj treats gastric ulcers using advanced surgical techniques such as truncal vagotomy combined with gastrojejunostomy or laparoscopic highly selective vagotomy, ensuring minimal invasiveness.
He is also renowned for offering traditional gastrectomy, laparoscopic gastropexy, hernia repairs, transthoracic esophagectomy, hepaticojejunostomy, and cholecystectomy, among others.
Patients with hydatid disease, pancreatitis, ulcerative colitis, cancers of gastrointestinal region, and gallstone disease have highly benefited from his treatment plans.
Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi completed his MBBS from Madurai Medical College. He pursued an MS in General Surgery from PGI Chandigarh.
He attained an MCh in Gastrointestinal/HPB surgery at GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi.
He completed his DNB in Surgical Gastroenterology from the NBE Board, New Delhi, in 2018.
Dr. Prithviraj holds a Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery (FMAS) as well as a Fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Oncology (FALS).
He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).
Dr. Prithviraj has undergone advanced training with a Fellowship in Liver Surgery and Transplantation at Paul Brousse, France.

Education

MBBS, Madurai Medical College, Madurai, 2008
MS in General Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 2012,
MCh in Surgical Gastroenterology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, 2017
DNB in Surgical Gastroenterology, NBE Board, New Delhi, 2018
Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery (FMAS)
Fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Oncology (FALS)
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
Fellowship in Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Paul Brousse, France

Past Experience

Consultant,Vadamalayan Hospital, 2022
Visiting Consultant, Department GI, HPB surgery and Liver Transplantation, KIMS, Trivandrum, 2020
Surgical Trainee, Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris, France, 2017
Senior Resident, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 2014

Awards

First Order Medal, MS General Surgery, 2012
Best Orator Award, National Level Debate in GI surgery, Torrentz Young Scholar, 2016
Best Outgoing Student, Mch GI surgery exit exam, 2017
Vocational Excellence Award by Rotary West, Gastroenterology and Organ Donation Awareness, 2020
Best E-poster, IASG Virtual Annual Conference AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar, 2021

Associations/Membership

Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA), Indian chapter
Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons (IAGES)
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)
Association of Colorectal Surgeons of India (ACRSI), Indian chapter
Asia Pacific Hernia society and Hernia society of India

Paper Published

He has numerous publications. Some of his papers published are:

Raj P, Kaman L, Singh R, Dahyia D, Bhattacharya A, Bal A. Sensitivity and specificity of FDG PET-CT scan in detecting lymph node metastasis in operable periampullary tumours in correlation with the final histopathology after curative surgery. Updates in surgery.2013:65;103-7.
Anirudh Srinivas , Lileswar Kaman, Prithivi Raj, Vikas Gautam, Divya Dahiya, Gurpreet Singh, Rajinder Singh,Bikash Medhi. Comparison of the efficacy of chlorhexidine gluconate versus povidone iodine as preoperative skin preparation for the prevention of surgical site infections in clean-contaminated upper abdominal surgeries. Surgery today 2015: 45; 1378-1384
Vijay Richard, Divya Dahiya, Lileswar Kaman, Prithvi raj, Arunanshu Behera. Effect of perioperative glutamine administration on C-reactive protein and liver function tests in patients undergoing hepatic resection. Polish journal of surgery.2014:86;11-14.
Divya Dahiya, Prithviraj, Lileswar Kaman, Arunanshu Behera. Epidermoid cyst of the spleen: A rare case report with review of the literature. Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine.2014:15;249-51.
Satyajit Ashok Godhi, Prithivi Raj Nabi, Sundeep Saluja, Pramod Mishra. Minimally Invasive Versus Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Cancer: Practice Patterns and Short-term Outcomes Among 7061 Patients. Annals of surgery 2015 Epub Jun23.(Letter to editor)
Mishra PK, Saluja SS, Prithiviraj N, Varshney V, Goel N, Patil N. Predictors of curative resection and long term survival of gallbladder cancer – A retrospective analysis. Am J Surg. 2017 Aug;214(2):278-286.
Nabi, P., Mishra, S. & Nag, H.H. An Experience of Radical Gastrectomy in Indian Patients with Gastric Carcinoma. Indian J Surg 80, 452–456 (2018).
Nag HH, Raj P, Sisodia K. The technique of laparoscopic hepatic bisegmentectomy with regional lymphadenectomy for gallbladder cancer. J Minim Access Surg. 2017 Sep 20.
Gupta RK, Saran RK, Nabi P, Nag HH, Srivastava S. Importance of cytohistological correlation and diagnostic utility of endoscopic ultrasound in gastric glomus tumor: A case report. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2018
Nag HH, Nekarakanti PK, Sachan A, Nabi P, Tyagi S. Bi-segmentectomy versus wedge hepatic resection in extended cholecystectomy for T2 and T3 gallbladder cancer: A matched case-control study. Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2021;25:485- 491.
Poster presentations in 12th world congress IHPBA 2016, Brazil
Laparoscopic liver surgery program: an early experience from an indian centre”
“proximal splenoadrenorenal shunt: a safe and effective alternative in non cirrhotic portal hypertension”.
“well differentiated lymph nodal neuroendocrine tumour: can they be primary?”
Extra hepatic portal venous obstruction [ehpvo] with or without portal biliopathy – intra operative portal pressure measurements: a comparative study.
Video presentation in 12 th world congress IHPBA 2016, Brazil – Technique of laparoscopic radical cholecystectomy with hepatic bisegmentectomy (s4b,s5) for gallbladder cancer.
Poster in IASG 2019. Peritoneal Tuberculosis- Ascites Forming Type. Role of laparoscopic biopsy with Gene Xpert plus analysis.. Prithiviraj Nabi Ms Mch ; Sowmiya Sampathrajan Md ; Narendran Md; Arunkumar Md. Department Of Gastroenterology & Liver Transplantation , Vadamalayan Hospital , Madurai.
E- Poster presentation in IASG Virtual Annual Conference AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar. Radiation Induced Liver Injury mimicking Metastasis- Malignant Masquerade.