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6th All India Transplant Games Held
The 6 th All India Transplant Games were held at the Lal Bahadur Stadium, Hyderabad on the 20 th and 21 st November, 1999. The games were held under the banner of the “All India Trans...
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It was a bright sunny morning on November 20 th and many roads and major junctions leading to the stadium were decorated with lots of banners, about organ donation and games meet, waving and flutter...
Read MoreEminent figures of Transplantation
Dr. Fritz Bach was one of the three distinguished recipients of the 1998 Medawar Prize. His scientific accomplishments are enormous and have spanned four decades. He was also appointed as the first r...
Read MoreHand Transplants
Hands On! More on the first modern Hand transplant The world’s first modern hand transplant was performed on sept.23,1998, in France (Transplantation Journal Watch, Vol l Issue I). I...
Read MoreImmunosuppressants
A potential immunosuppressant A compound called IPL 423,323 has been selected, by the biopharmaceutical company Inflazyme pharmaceuticals, to study as a potential new treatment for organ rejec...
Read MoreImmunosuppressive Drugs
Rapamycin effective in preventing organ rejection As part of the on-going research on immunosuppressants some interesting findings have come up. Laurence A. Turka of the University of Pennsylvan...
Read MoreIssues related to Kidney Transplantation
HLA matching at local level more beneficial Should organs be allocated on a national or local basis? This is the ongoing debate in the U.S.A. mark A. Schnitzler, PH.D, of Washington Univer...
Read Moreliver Transplantation
1) Lamlvudine reduces post-transplant recurrence of Hepatitis B virus infection & can delay the need for Liver Transplantation in some patients with Chronic Hepatitis B At the 50...
Read MoreLiver Transplants
Cadaveric split liver transplants preferred to living-donor transplants The first international symposium dedicated to expanding the donor pool was held in Pittsburgh in August 1999. In a state...
Read MoreLung Transplantation
Lung transplantation increases survival of children with cystic fibrosis A study was done at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, to evaluate the effect of lung transp...
Read MoreLung Transplants
Youngest Double Lung transplant recipient Aseven year old, Laura Guzman of Chicago, USA, became the Chicago area's youngest double lung transplant recipient on August 9, 1999. It also marked the...
Read MoreMemorial Service for the Organ Donors of Chennai
Memorial Service for the Organ Donors of Chennai At an emotionally very moving function on the 30 th October, 1999 twenty one-organ donor families were honoured by Multi Organ Harvestin...
Read MoreMemorial Service” for donor families in Chennai
This issue of the “Indian Transplant Newsletter” is special because it covers an event called “The Memorial Service” organised by MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) fo...
Read MorePreservation Fluids
Preservation fluids influence the cadaver graft function, survival rates and complications. The type of fluid used is even more critical in liver transplantation. The preservation fluids are expensiv...
Read MoreProgramme launched to probe trafficking in organs
Organs Watch – a first-of-its-kind program was launched on November 8, 1999 to identify human rights abuses surrounding the trafficking of organs by two professors from the University ...
Read MoreR & D in Transplantation
New Heart Storage Solution Cleared by FDA Celsior – the first standardized flushing and cold storage solution for donor hearts was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for use in ...
Read MoreR & D in Transplantation
I) Transplantation Tolerance Hans J. sclitt and colleagues in Hanorver, Germany, in a study based on heart transplant in rats, reported that the induction of transplant tolerance depends o...
Read MoreRacism rears its head in Organ Transplantation
Racism reared its ugly head in an incident in the U.K, involving a donor family who insisted that the donated organ should go only to white patient and not to a “coloured” person. Shockin...
Read MoreXenotransplantation
No infection in humans from pig virus A report in the august 20, 1999 of science()1999: 285:1236-1241)says that in retrospective study conducted to access the safety of xeno-transpla...
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