Since its inception in 1995, the cadaver organ transplant programme in our country has so far failed to achieve its objectives. One of the major hurdles has been the unrelated transplants that have been happening rampantly with the permission ...
The issues of organ transplantation for HIV positive patients is talking centre stage in USA with novelist, playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer playing a leading role. Kramer who is HIV positive is one of four HIV positive patients currently ...
On September 11 and in the days immediately following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, air travel in the US came to a grinding halt. While rescue efforts continued in New York and Washington, the transplant ...
Cryptic statement above, but it could help boost blood bank supplies. A study published in the journal of the American Medical Association looked at the possibility of people with hemochromatosis, donating blood on a regular basis. For these ...
Xeno – transplantation research got a boost with the Vatican issuing a position paper in October this year encouraging research into xeno-transplantation but with caution as the watch word. Issues of ethics and high costs of xeno ...
Dr. Christian Barnard 1922-2001 Dr. Christian Barnard, the man who was as well known in the medical world as he was in the world of the common man, died on September 2, 2001. He suffered a fatal asthma attack after going for a swim at a resort ...
20 th September, 2001 – a 40-year-old woman who had been tragically involved in a road traffic accident was declared brain dead, but her courageous and generous family consented to donating her organs to help others live a new life. The ...
Dr. Lloyd Vincent, Head of the department of Nephrology, St.John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore was horrified to find out that several of his patients who were undergoing dialysis and awaiting kidney transplantation had been approached ...
A conference on “Current Perspectives in Liver Diseases and Hepatic Encephalopathy” at the PGI Chandigarh brought into focus once again the need to generate more cadaver organ donation through active awareness programmes. Although data ...
Genetics was the focus of this year’s Noble Prize for Physiology and Medicine. This prestigious prize was awarded to Lee Hartwell, PhD, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Professor of Genetics at the ...
Mr.A.R. Krishnaswamy,Transplant Coordinator,Madras Medical Mission, Chennai The ultimate goal of any Organ Procurement Organization is assisting reffering Hospitals and Transplant Centers in potential donor situation. Formulation ...
Picture perfect “A picture is worth a thousand words” – this was brought home beautifully by a group of young heart and minds working harmoniously with their ...
INDIAN EXPERIENCE WITH SOCIAL, MORAL & ETHICAL ISSUES OF ORGAN DONATION Case Study 4: Marriage Squabbles (case discussed during brain death symposium held at CMC Vellore by MOHAN foundation) 55-year-old diabetic hypertensive ...
Robert Tools, 59, the world’s first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart and Tom Christenson, 70, the second recipient of the same are making steady progress, according to surgeons Laman Gray Jr and Robert Dowling at Jewish ...
Domino transplants are a way of optimizing organ supply by utilizing an organ that otherwise would have been thrown away. Arlyn Schier, 52, was diagnosed with familial ...
Clinical study of living skin replacement to help wound healing: The name is Vitrix. This cellular dermal replacement involves living human dermal cells (fibroblasts) and ...
Research on animal – derived biomaterials for use in humans: Researchers at the Department of Biomedical Research Engineering in Purdue University in the USA have shown ...
DR.N.MADHU SANKAR*, DR.BENJANMIN NINAN, DR.K.M.CHERIAN Heart-Lung transplantation has come of age and is offered to patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary disorders. We have performed to Heart-Lung transplantation at the institute ...
Pointers on increasing organ donation consent rates: Laura Siminoff, PhD and her team from case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio have had ...
Elimination of pre-transplant cross-matching possible in some recipients: The august 2001 issue of clinical transplantation carries a report by Arthur Matas, MD and his ...
Intestinal transplant outcome improves: Intestinal transplantation is now the standard of therapy for patients with intestinal failure and complications resulting ...
Combined heart-lung-liver transplantation possible in some patients: Peter Friend, MD and colleagues at the Churchill Hospital in oxford, UK has found that combined ...
Possibility of preserving fertility through ovarian tissue transplantation into arms An arm-twisting tactic, of sorts, but promising hope to women who have their ovaries ...
Multiple Sclerosis Patients helped by autologous stem cell transplantation Patients with severe progressive multiple sclerosis have hope yet.10 patients with multiple ...
Change in immunosuppressive therapy benefits heart transplant patients There are no hard and fast rules in immunosuppressant. Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre in ...