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Three-in-One Liver Transplant in Japan
The world’s first liver transplant involving four patients was carried out by doctors at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan last year. Working in four teams, 20 doctors performed a series of op...
Read MoreA Big thank you to organ donor families in Pittsburgh
The Center for Organ Recovery & Education in the USA honored about 2,100 donor family members in May this year. The eighth annual ceremony was held at its headquarters in Pittsburgh followed by a...
Read MoreA Gift of Life-Dr.K.Ganapathy
Editor’s note: Dr. K. Ganapathy has certified the first multi-organ brain dead donor in the country. This is his account of the event that created history. Courtesy “The Hin...
Read MoreA landmark judgement passed
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a person with one kidney should be considered physically handicapped for the benefit of job reservation .A division bench allowed the plea of Chander ...
Read MoreA Story from the heart
The Manipal Heart Foundation , Bangalore was the scene of a successful homograft in a patient suffering from Marfan’s syndrome , which is a rare disorder affecting the blood vessels of th...
Read MoreCadaver Organ donation and transplantation in India
Despite our constant reminders many centers undertaking cadaver transplantation failed to provide their latest figures. This makes compiling of such information very difficult. On the last count (Sep...
Read MoreCadaver Transplantation Activity January - May 2000
Hospital Kidney Heart Liver Lungs Chennai Apollo Hospitals* 6 1 ...
Read MoreDouble Forearm Transplant in France
A double forearm transplant was successfully performed in January this year in France. The recipient was Denis Chatelier whose forearm had been shattered by a home-made bomb. The surgery was perform...
Read MoreEminent figures of Transplantation
Dr. Felix Rapaport is a familiar name in the world of transplantation. He served the Transplantation Society as Founding Secretary, past-President, and continuous council membership for 32 years and ...
Read MoreFeedback
“Thank you for sending very informative Indian Transplant Newsletters to the Eurotransplant central office. It is good to be informed about similar problems in the field of organ donation and t...
Read MoreGive the baby a big hand!
“Her left arm and hand is pink and warm and the nails are growing. There is a little movement in hand”. This was Malaysian Health Minister Chua JuiMeng speaking to reporters about a month...
Read MoreHuman Genome Project’s Milestone
For a revolution to happen many technologies help to evolve simultaneously and peak at the same time. We are on the fringe of such a revolution in the field of transplantation. The chemical book of l...
Read MoreInitiative for organ sharing group started in Chennai
" Let us try not to waste organs" was the sentiment that brought together leading hospital in Chennai to start the " Initiative for organ sharing Groups" (IOSG). The first meeting was held in Decembe...
Read MoreINITIATIVE FOR ORGAN SHARING GROUP STARTED IN CHENNAI
“ Let us not try to waste organs” was the sentiment that brought together leading hospitals in Chennai to start the “Initiative for Organ Sharing Group”(IOSG). The firs...
Read MoreInternational Donor Rates - 1998
INTERNATIONAL DONOR RATES – 1998 DONORS PER MILLION POPULATION Spain 31.5 USA 21.2 France 16.9 ...
Read MoreInterview with Dr. K. Ganapathy
Dr. K. Ganapahy M.S..FACS.FICS, Ph.D-eminent neurosurgeon, Secretary- Neurological Society of India, Member-Neuro traumatology section of the Neurological society of India secretary General &nd...
Read MorePrisoners pledge their organs
Inmates of Vadodara central jail serving life sentences for murder have decided to donate their eyes. On March 31, they signed the eye donation form and created history. The youngest donor, 23 year o...
Read MoreSelling Saga Continues
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh have now been found selling their kidneys in Delhi. A broker shatrugenudu Raju and his accomplice. Srinivasamurthy were remanded to judicial custody in May this year and cha...
Read MoreWalkathon to promote organ donation
Foundation for Organ Retrieval & Transplant Education (FORTE) at Bangalore organized a walkathon in the month of February to spread the awareness about cadaver organ donation. The event as flagge...
Read MoreWho needs Immunosuppression?
Is there life without immunosuppression? This is the question that Dr. George Mazariegos and his colleagues are trying to answer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantati...
Read MoreWorkshop for Intensivists held in Chennai
A workshop on intensive care of the brain dead multi-organ donor was held on June 11, 2000 at Sundaram Medical Foundation, Anna Nagar, Chennai. The Chennai chapter of the Indian Society of Critical C...
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