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13th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
The 13 th annual meeting of the Indian society of organ transplantation was held from 26 th -28 th Septemeber 2002 at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate institute of medical Sciences, Lucknow. Almost 100 n...
Read More2002 – The Year of Kidney Scandals
In the field of medicine” The year of 2002” has been the year of kidney scandals in India. From South to north we have seen how the unrelated transplants trade has flourished. One after a...
Read More2002-The Year also of Shift in Attitude to organ donation
The only redeeming feature of the year has been the slight shift in the attitude of public in India towards organ donation. Some of us who have been in the forefront of the cadaver organ donation pro...
Read MoreComputerized registry for transplant waiting list and organ matching software
Since the Transplantation of Human Organ Act was passed in 1994, the total number of cadaver transplants done for various solid organs is as follows( Jan 1995 – Jun 2001) : Kidney -379, Heart &...
Read MoreFace off
Remember the John Travolta/Nicolas cage movie “Face OFF” where they exchange appearances – well it looks real life is about to imitate reel life. Face transplants ...
Read MoreFirst Whole Ovary Transplant in China
A history of sorts was created on March 5, 2002 with the first whole ovary transplant being performed in china at the Zhejiang university medical school on a 34 year old woman who had to ha...
Read MoreFocus on need for more Organ Retrieval Centres
In the face of ever growing need for organs the focus has shifted to peripheral centres, which get a large number of brain death cases. Unfortunately, organs cannot be retrieved from these hosp...
Read MoreGene therapy to the rescue
When Wilco Conradi was born two years ago in the Netherlands with severe combined immunodeficiency of SICD it seemed that his life would centre around the germ proof plastic enclosu...
Read MoreHere’s to life
Raising a toast to life anew is18 year for Reuben Bhowmick from Bangalore, all thanks to the presence of mind and altruism of a family of a youth who died in an accident. For Reuben and his fat...
Read MoreIndia Protests Kidney removal from Indian in Bahrain
Bringing into prominence the extremely delicate scenario in which organ donation takes place and the importance of the family in giving consent was an incident that took place in Bahrain in July 2002...
Read MoreIssues related to organ donation trends in living related organ donation
What role does gender and financial status play in a person agreeing to be a live – related kidney donor? Attempting to answer these questions was a study conducted by doctors from postgraduate...
Read MoreKidney trade in Punjab
The epicenter of kidney trade seems to have moved to Punjab with cases of kidneys being bought and sold coming to light in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana. In Amrits...
Read MoreKidney Transplantation
Excellent long-term results of cadaveric kidney transplantation in Korea Doctors in the division of transplantation surgery Department of surgery, chonnam National University m...
Read Moreliver Transplantation
Tuberculosis after liver transplantation Tuberculosis (TB) has recently been found to cause serve infection in patients post transplantation and therefore patient care after liver transplantatio...
Read MoreMani – Another unsung hero
Mani Kandan was born on March 23 1973. He graduated from Calicut Regional Engineering College. He was very sensible, compassionate and quiet person who always wanted to help others. Misfortune str...
Read MoreMoving towards developing a Bioartificial Hepatic Organ
A step in the right direction in constructing a bioartificial hepatic organ was taken by researchers at the Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine And Dentisity, Japan ...
Read MoreNon-heartbeating donor kidneys associated with excellent patient and graft survival
A study of 31 uncontrolled non-heart beating donor (NHBD) kidneys put to rest the concern of poor function when using cold storage preservation for these kidneys. The median warm ischemia time (WIT) ...
Read MoreOvarian transplant done in India
Close to the heels of the first ovarian transplant done in China, the first ovarian transplant was done in India of March 29, 2002 in Mumbai. The recipient was a 17 year old Nita (named changes...
Read MoreReligion, War – no bar to Organ Donation
In the midst of all conflicts in the Middle East between the Palestinian and the Israelis, there are still acts of such generosity of spirit that it renews one’s faith in Humanity. One such act...
Read MoreTuberculosis after liver transplantation
Tuberculosis (TB) has recently been found to cause serve infection in patients post transplantation and therefore patient care after liver transplantation should also focus on the possibility of TB d...
Read MoreUW solution holds promise for cryopreservation of primary isolated hepatocytes
Researchers at the Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College and the Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry in Japan carried out a study to ...
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