Vikrant Sood

Associate Professor,  Department of Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Sector D-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India 

Location: India

Consulting Services

Career Advice and Mentoring Case Consulting Journal Manuscript Conferences

Areas Of Interest

Pediatric Hospitals

Professional Narrative

Currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Hepatology at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (under Government of NCT of Delhi), Dr Vikrant Sood was the first certified Pediatric Hepatologist and Liver Transplant Physician in the country. He later underwent advanced training in pediatric liver transplantation and metabolic liver diseases at the prestigious UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA. His entire team has been instrumental in establishing a fully functional Liver unit which is well equipped for prompt management of infectious, metabolic and hereditary liver diseases in children, including successfully running the only public sector Pediatric liver transplant program in the country

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences 2016

Education

MBBS, NHL Medical College, Ahmedabad 2002
MD Pediatrics, SJH and VMMC, New Delhi 2008
DM Pediatric Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences 2013

Referees

Prof Patrick McKiernan, BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST.

“Professor”

Prof Robert Squires, UPMC Children's Hospital.

“Professor”

Publications

  1. Sood V et al., Operational Tolerance after Liver Transplantation: First Report from India, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2022.09.002.
  2. Suchismita A, Ashritha A, Sood V et al., Study of Adherence to Medication in Pediatric Liver Diseases (“SAMPLD” Study) in Indian Children, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2022.10.006.
  3. Ashritha A, Gautam V, Lal BB, Mukund A, Vijay P, Khanna R, Sood V, Alam S. Percutaneous Cholecystocholangiography-A Tool to Conclusively Exclude Biliary Atresia. Indian J Pediatr. 2022 Sep 20.
  4. Tripathy TP, Patidar Y, Chandel K, Varadarajan A, Sood V, Laroia ST. Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Biliary Tree as a Differential in a Paediatric Patient Presenting with Biliary Dilatation: Not Always a Choledochal Cyst. Acta Med Litu. 2022;29(1):112-117. 
  5. Maria A, Lal BB, Khanna R, Sood V, Mukund A, Bajpai M, Alam S. Rotational thromboelastometry-guided blood component use in cirrhotic children undergoing invasive procedures: Randomized controlled trial. Liver Int. 2022 Aug 17. 
  6. Bhardwaj G, Khanna R, Verma M, Sood V, Pamecha V, Kumar G. Adherence to Immunosuppression in Indian Children after Liver Transplant. Indian J Pediatr. 2022 Sep;89(9):928. 
  7. Upadhyay P, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Gupta E, Rastogi A, Alam S. Incidence and Predictors of Relapse After Stopping Antiviral Therapy in Pediatric Chronic Hepatitis B. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2022 Sep 1;41(9):714-719.
  8. Lal BB, Sood V, Jain K, Bihari C, Khanna R, Alam S. Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Need for Genetic Analysis Before Liver Transplantation. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2022 Mar-Apr;12(2):686-688.
  9. Lal BB, Sood V, Rastogi A, Mukund A, Khanna R, Sharma MK, Alam S. Safety, Feasibility, Yield, Diagnostic and Prognostic Implications of Transjugular Liver Biopsy in Children and Adolescents. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2021 Nov 1;73(5):e109-e114. 
  10. Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Novel Variations in MYO5B Presenting as Isolated Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Long-Term Outcome after Partial Internal Biliary Diversion. Indian J Pediatr. 2021 Oct;88(10):1052.
  11. Bolia R, Sood V. Splenic stiffness measurement: need for technical standardization. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Apr 1;33(4):595-596. 
  12. Pawaria A, Khanna R, Sood V, Siloliya M, Benjamin JJ, Kumar G, Alam S. Subjective global nutritional assessment as a nutritional tool in childhood chronic liver disease. Br J Nutr. 2021 May 14:1-10. 
  13. Vijay P, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Cystatin C: best biomarker for acute kidney injury and estimation of glomerular filtration rate in childhood cirrhosis. Eur J Pediatr. 2021 Nov;180(11):3287-3295.
  14. Upadhyay P, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Non-Invasive Predictors of High Risk Esophageal Varices - Methodological Issues. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2021 Oct 21.
  15. Sood V, Squires JE, Mazariegos GV, Vockley J, McKiernan PJ. Living Related Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Liver Diseases in Children. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2021 Jan 1;72(1):11-17.
  16. Pawaria A, Sood V, Lal BB, Khanna R, Bajpai M, Alam S. Ninety days transplant free survival with high volume plasma exchange in Wilson disease presenting as acute liver failure. J Clin Apher. 2021 Feb;36(1):109-117. 
  17. Vijay P, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Patidar Y, Alam S. Dynamic Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter (ONSD) guided management of raised intracranial pressure in pediatric acute liver failure. Hepatol Int. 2021 Apr;15(2):502-509. 
  18. Lal BB, Sood V, Snehavardhan P, Khanna R, Pasupuleti SSR, Siloliya M, Kumar G, Alam S. A novel, bedside, etiology specific prognostic model (Peds-HAV) in hepatitis A induced pediatric acute liver failure. Hepatol Int. 2020 Jul;14(4):483-490. 
  19. Sood V, Lal BB, Sharma S, Khanna R, Siloliya MK, Alam S. Gilbert's Syndrome in Children with Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia - An Analysis of 170 Cases. Indian J Pediatr. 2021 Feb;88(2):154-157.
  20. Mahajan S, Lal BB, Sood V, Khillan V, Khanna R, Alam S. Difficult-to-treat ascitic fluid infection is a predictor of transplant-free survival in childhood decompensated chronic liver disease. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2020 Oct;39(5):465-472. 
  21. Pandey S, Sood V, Khanna R, et al. Natural history, risk factors, and outcome of hepatopulmonary syndrome in pediatric liver diseases. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2020;39(1):66‐74.
  22. Snehavardhan P, Khanna R, Lal BB, Sood V, Sood AK, Alam S. Comparison of Two Diagnostic Criteria for Hepatopulmonary Syndrome-High Prevalence in Biliary Atresia. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020;70(5):623‐627.
  23. Snehavardhan P, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Efficacy and Safety of Sodium Benzoate in The Management of Hyperammonemia in Decompensated Chronic Liver Disease of the Childhood-A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020;70(2):165‐170.
  24. Sood V, Lal BB, Gupta E, Khanna R, Siloliya MK, Alam S. Hepatitis A Virus-related Pediatric Liver Disease Burden and its Significance in the Indian Subcontinent. Indian Pediatr. 2019;56(9):741–744.
  25. Sood V, Lal BB, Rawat D, et al. Spectrum of Pediatric Autoimmune Liver Disease and Validation of Its Diagnostic Scores in Indian Children. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2018;67(4):e65–e72.
  26. Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Immunotolerant children with chronic hepatitis B - To treat or not - The dilemma continues. J Hepatol. 2018 Oct;69(4):979-981.
  27. Kumar R, Lal BB, Sood V, et al. Predictors of Successful Kasai Portoenterostomy and Survival with Native Liver at 2 Years in Infants with Biliary Atresia. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2019;9(4):453–459.
  28. Sarin SK, Choudhury A, Sharma MK, et al. Acute-on-chronic liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific association for the study of the liver (APASL): an update [published correction appears in Hepatol Int. 2019 Nov;13(6):826-828]. Hepatol Int. 2019;13(4):353–390.
  29. Alam S, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Kumar G. AARC-ACLF score: best predictor of outcome in children and adolescents with decompensated Wilson disease. Hepatol Int. 2019;13(3):330–338.
  30. Sood V, Khanna R, Rawat D, Sharma S, et al. Study of Family Clustering and PNPLA3 Gene Polymorphism in Pediatric Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Indian Pediatr. 2018 July;55(7):561-7.
  31. Sood V, Lal BB, Alam S, Rawat D, Bihari C. Limited Diagnostic Significance of Gamma Glutamyl Transpeptidase Levels in Advanced Pediatric Cholestatic Liver Diseases. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2019 Apr 10;39(1):22-7.
  32. Lal BB, Vijay P, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Acute Kidney Injury May Not Be As Uncommon As Believed in Children With Advanced Chronic Liver Diseases. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2019;68(1):e17.
  33. Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. How to identify the need for liver transplantation in pediatric acute-on-chronic liver failure? Hepatol Int. 2018 Nov;12(6):552-559.
  34. Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R, Rawat D, Verma S, Alam S. Pegylated interferon-based sequential therapy for treatment of HBeAg reactive pediatric chronic hepatitis B-First study in children. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jul;37(4):326-334.
  35. Khemka N, Lal BB, Sood V, Khanna R. Transjugular Liver Biopsy vs Percutaneous Liver Biopsy with Tract Embolization in Children with Coagulopathy. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2019 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print]
  36. Sood V, Chawla J, Lal BB, Khanna R, Bihari C, Alam S. Hepatic Dysfunction in a child Post Bone Marrow Transplantation. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2018 Sep;8(3):327-331.
  37. Sood V, Lal BB, Rastogi A, Khanna R, Rawat D, Alam S. Regression of fibrosis in pediatric liver diseases. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2018 May 9. [Epub ahead of print]
  38. Sood V, Chaudhari SR, Borle D, Sureka B, Bihari C, Kumar S. Cystic Presentation of Hepatic Schistosomiasis. Indian J Pediatr. 2018 Apr;85(4):313-315. Epub 2017 Sep 19.
  39. Sood V, Alam S. Outcome of Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation in India. Indian Pediatr. 2018 Apr 15;55(4):349-350. 
  40. Bihari Lal B, Vijay P, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Prediction of Large Varices in Children With Cirrhosis: Platelets, Bilirubin, or Etiology?. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2018;67(2):e40–e41.
  41. Lal BB, Alam S, Sood V, Rawat D, Khanna R. Profile, risk factors and outcome of acute kidney injury in pediatric acute-on-chronic liver failure. Liver Int. 2018 Jan 11. [Epub ahead of print]
  42. Chougule A, Rastogi A, Maiwall R, Bihari C, Sood V, Sarin SK. Spectrum of histopathological changes in patients with non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis.Hepatol Int. 2018 Mar;12(2):158-166.
  43. Kumar A, Sood V, Khanna R, Verma SK, Mehra N, Rawat D, Alam S. Clinical Spectrum and Outcome of Pediatric Drug Induced Liver Injury. Indian J Pediatr. 2017 Dec 16.
  44. Sood V, Lal BB, Khanna R, Rawat D, Bihari C, Alam S. Noncirrhotic Portal Fibrosis in Pediatric Population. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2017 May;64(5):748-753.
  45. Sood V, Rawat D, Khanna R, Sharma S, Gupta PK, Alam S, Sarin SK. Study of Carnitine/Acylcarnitine and Amino Acid Profile in Children and Adults With Acute Liver Failure. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2017 Jun;64(6):869-875.
  46. Alam S, Khanna R, Sood V, Lal BB, Rawat D. Profile and outcome of first 109 cases of paediatric acute liver failure at a specialized paediatric liver unit in India. Liver Int. 2017 Oct;37(10):1508-1514.
  47. Alam S, Khanna R, Sood V, Lal BB, Rawat D. Response to Profile and outcome of first 109 cases of paediatric acute liver failure at a specialized paediatric liver unit in India: Methodological issues. Liver Int. 2017 Nov;37(11):1741.
  48. Sood V, Lal BB, Lata S, Rastogi A, Alam S. Cholemic or Bile Cast Nephropathy in a Child with Liver Failure.J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2017 Dec;7(4):373-375.
  49. Sood V, Alam S. Outcome of Biliary Atresia After Kasai's Portoenterostomy: Few Concerns. Indian Pediatr. 2017 Aug 15;54(8):690.
  50. Sureka B, Rastogi A, Bihari C, Bharathy KGS, Sood V, Alam S. Imaging in ductal plate malformations. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2017 Jan-Mar;27(1):6-12.
  51. Ganju S, Lal BB, Khanna R, Sood V, Alam S. Characterizing and Defining "Infantile Liver Failure". J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2017 Jul;65(1):e23.
  52. Alam S, Sood V. Metabolic Liver Disease: When to Suspect and How to Diagnose? Indian J Pediatr. 2016 Apr 29. [Epub ahead of print] 
  53. Alam S, Lal BB, Sood V, Rawat D. Pediatric acute-on-chronic liver failure in a specialized liver unit: Prevalence, profile, outcome and predictive factors. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2016 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print]
  54. Sood V, Agrawal N, Alam S, Rawat D, Khanna R, Bansal K, Bihari C. Primary Pancreatic Lymphoma Simulating Acute Cholestatic Hepatitis in a 7-Year-Old Child.ACG Case Rep J. 2015;2(3):190-2.
  55. Sood V, Rawat D, Khanna R, Alam S. Cholestatic liver disease masquerading as Wilson disease. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2015 Mar;34(2):174-7.
  56. Sood V, Lal BB, Alam S, Rawat D, Khanna R, Rajesh S. Traumatic Pancreatic Transection with Abdomino-Pelvic Pseudocyst Formation. Journal of Pediatrics2015;166:1094-e1.
  57. Sood V, Khanna R, Rawat D, Alam S. Diagnosis, management, and long-term issues in pediatric Budd-Chiari syndrome- Letter to Editor. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016 Sep;28(9):1102.
  58. Alam S, Lal BB, Khanna R, Sood V, Rawat D. Acute Liver Failure in Infants and Young Children in a Specialized Pediatric Liver Centre in India. Indian J Pediatr. 2015 Jan 6. [Epub ahead of print].
  59. Sood V, Lal BB, Rawat D, Khanna R, Alam S. Elevated C-Reactive Protein And Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis In Children with Chronic Liver Disease and Ascites- Letter To Editor. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.Volume 59(1), July 2014, p e 15.
  60. Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S, Rawat D, Bhatnagar S, Rastogi A. Ductal Paucity and Warkany Syndrome in a patient with Congenital Extrahepatic Portocaval Shunt. World J Hepatol 2014; 6(5): 358-362.
  61. Saxena P, Bihari C, Rastogi A, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S, Sarin SK. Hepatitis A induced hemophagocytic syndrome. Trop Gastroenterol. 2014 Apr-Jun; 35(2):122-4.
  62. Sood V, Chellani H, Arya S. Congenital Syphilis as Neonatal Cholestasis Syndrome – an extinct entity? Journal of Pediatric Sciences. 2014; 6: E216.
  63. Bihari C, Rastogi A, Rajbongshi A, Sood V, Khanna R, Alam S. Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) Presenting as Decompensated Liver Disease: Case Report. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research 2013; 2(8): 750-752
  64.  Aggarwal M, Sood V, Kumar A, Saurabh K. Jodhpur disease revisited: a rare cause of severe protein energy malnutrition. Ann Gastroenterol 2012; 25 (2): 262-264
  65. Sood V, Aggarwal M, Aggarwal KC. Neonatal Tetanus Elimination in India—Still a long way to go. Indian J Pediatr. 2011 Apr; 78(4):491-2.
  66. Sood V, Chellani H, Arya S, Guliani BP. Changing spectrum of Retinopathy of Prematurity and variations among siblings of multiple gestation. Indian J Pediatr. 2012 Jul; 79(7):905-10.
  67. Aggarwal M, Sood V, Aggarwal KC. Tetanus in Pediatric Patients- Predictors Affecting Mortality and Role of Immunoglobulin. Indian Pediatr. 2011 Dec; 48(12):987-8.
  68. Aggarwal M, Sood V, Deswal S, Aggarwal KC. Caudal Regression Syndrome with Bilateral Popliteal Webbing without Maternal Diabetes: A Rare Entity. Child Nerv Syst.2012 Oct; 28 (10):1819-21.

Grants,Awards and Certifications

Grants :

NA

Awards & Prizes :

  1. ‘American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) International GI Training Grant Award 2019’:
    • For training as a visiting physician in Pediatric Transplant Hepatology and Medical Genetics at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA.
  2. Excellent E-Poster award at the 5th Korea Digestive Disease Week held in November 2021.
  3.  ‘Young Investigator Award’ at the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Annual Meeting 2019 held in Glasgow, Scotland.
  4. ‘Young Investigator Award’ at ESPGHAN Annual Meeting 2018 held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  5. ‘Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL) Plenary Award, 2016’ held in New Delhi, India.
  6. ‘Young Investigator Award’ at ESPGHAN Annual Meeting 2016 held in Athens, Greece.
  7. Winner of both First and Second Prizes in Oral Paper presentations (Hepatology Section) at PEDGASTROCON 2013 held at Pune, India.
  8. Winner of First Prize in Oral paper presentation (Hepatology Section) at PEDGASTROCON 2012 (Annual Indian Pediatric Gastroenterology Conference) held at SGPGI Lucknow, India.
  9. Second Prize in ‘Competitive Grand Rounds’ organized by Indian Journal of Pediatrics at AIIMS, New Delhi held on 13th September 2015.

Languages

Language Proficiency :

English (Excellent Spoken and Written) Hindi (Sanskritised Hindustani) (Excellent Spoken and Written)

Translation Services :

Hindi (Sanskritised Hindustani) to Hindi (Sanskritised Hindustani) (Excellent Spoken and Written)

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