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3rd August to be Observed as Heart Transplant Day in India
Heartwarming news indeed! August 3 rd has been declared Heart Transplantation Day by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He announced this at a function held at his Race Course Road residen...
Read MoreAll India & SAARC Transplant Games- An Event for the Community
The forthcoming VIII Transplant Games t be held at Chennai has shown some keen participation so far and for the first time will have not only Kidney transplant patients but also patients, who ...
Read MoreAnnual conference of the Indian society of organ transplantation(ISOT-2003) held at Hyderabad
The 14 th Annual conference of the ISOT was held at Hyderabad from 7 th to 10 th August 2003 at Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy Human Resouces Development Institute. ...
Read MoreFirst Cadaveric Bone and Joint Transplantation done in Chennai
On July 8, 2003 the first cadaveric bone and joint transplantation surgery was performed at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Government General Hospital, Chennai. The patient Mr. sivakumar (22 ...
Read MoreIssues related to Kidney Transplantation
Urological Complications after Renal Transplantation: A Single Center Review on 1100 Cases A retrospective review of 1100 cases of consecutive live-donor renal transplants done between 1989 and ...
Read MoreIssues related to Liver Transplantation
Liver transplantation in India Is liver transplantation in India a viable proposition? The experience at Indraprasatha...
Read MoreLiving Heart Donation
Odd, but true-living heart donation can be done but odder still, it can only be done by an individual requiring a lung transplant. This is because the individual would receive a heart-lung bloc donat...
Read MoreLiving Lung Donation
The recipient of a living lung donation requires not one, but two donors. This is because the donors gives one lobe each, which are then combined to form a single lung for the recipient. The first li...
Read MoreMrs. B. Vijayalakshmi Raj – The Art of “Giving” Hyderabad
Mrs. B. Vijalakshmi Raj (68 years) was a multifaceted personality –a social activist, a juvenile court judge and editor of a monthly magazine called “Anaamika”- who gave her best to...
Read MoreMrs. Daisy Rani (Coimbatore)
Mrs. Daisy Rani, a 40-year-old lady, who lived in Coimbatore, went to Trivandrum to undergo brain surgery. Unfortunately, following the surgery she did not recover and was declared brain dead. Her hu...
Read MoreNational Transplant Coordinators Forum Formated at Hyderabad
The maturity of a cadaver transplant programme in a country is judged by a few factors. One of these factors include having a cohesive Transplant Co-ordinators group. In India, we took the first step...
Read MoreScaling New Heights
Kelly Perkins likes climbing mountains, which proves that she not only has a head for heights, but more importantly, the heart for it. Kelly, who is from California, is a heart transplant patient. Sh...
Read MoreThe Heart of the Matter
Getting to the heart of any controversy is difficult, but when the heart, quite literally, becomes the heart of a controversy, it becomes twice as difficult. The controversy started when a prison inm...
Read MoreTriple Switch Kidney Transplant
What does one do when a kidney failure patient awaiting transplant has w willing donor, but their blood or tissue types don’t match? Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, seems to...
Read MoreWorld Organ Donors Day
In USA national Organ donors day is celebrated in the month of February, similar days are celebrated in other countries too. It is time that the WHO declares a “world Organ Day” or even ...
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