Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. IV Issue NO.: 11 (February 2002)
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Interesting report on Organ trafficking from “Organ watch”

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Ms. Nancy Scheper – Hughes, of “Organ watch” (an international NGO tracking Human organs commercialization), presented her findings in a speech to the United States Congress on June 27, 2001. She said, “The growth of ...

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The ‘Required Request Law’ for Solid Organs

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Eye Bank of India (EBI) has been lobbying for a ‘required request’ law to boost the eye donation programme in the country. At present, the EBI has 215 eye banks all over the country and retrieves on an average 16,000 corneas every year. ...

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Organ Donation Figures Need a Boost in Germany.

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The will to give is there, but what is really needed is to translate thought into deed. Dr. Martin Molzahn, Head of the German foundation of organ transplantation [DSO] said that while 70% of Germans say they would donate organs after death, only ...

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Kidney Racket in Peru

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The kidney trade seems to be spreading its tentacles all over, the latest entrant being Peru. A growing number of Americans who need a Kidney and who are willing to pay almost anything have made Peru their hunting ground. Recently a single mother ...

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Transplant Pioneer Passes Away

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Boston 1954 - the world’s first successful human organ transplant, a kidney transplant between identical twins was performed. The man under whose dynamic leadership - this milestone was achieved was Francis [Frannie] Danie Moore, M.D. He was ...

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First Heart Transplant Recipient Climbs Up!

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Kelly Perkine, 40, has faced really steep health problems, but six year after receiving a life-saving heart transplant. She decided to tackle something steeper, literally. The 19,340 foot high Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain peak in Africa ...

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Liver Transplant for HIV Positive Patient:

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Larry Kramer, 66, a renowned playwright and novelist in the US needed a liver transplant because of end stage liver failure caused by hepatitis B. there was one major catch, though. He was HIV positive (full story in Indian Transplant Newsletter ...

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Annual Function to Honor the Families of Cadaver Organ Donors Held At the Karnataka Raj Bhavan

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On the 10 th  of January, 2002, the Karnataka Raj Bhavan played host to the FORTE Donor Award Ceremony. These awards were instituted to accord public recognition to the families of organ donors in the state of Karnataka. It is also a way in ...

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‘Pratibha’- Organ Donation Awareness by Students in Chennai

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‘Prathibha’- 'splendour' ‘brilliance’ was the name of the thematic exhibition organized by the students of GK Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College, Ambattur, Chennai in January this year. One of the projects, which is ...

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Kidney Trade Rules The Roost in Bangalore

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NGO's like FORTE promoting cadaveric organ transplantation have never had it so tough with Bangalore being labelled the center for kidney trading in India through unrelated kidney transplants. This time the story begins in the district of Mandya ...

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The Real Miracle of Transplant Surgery

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In September 1999, 11 of the pioneers from them early days of transplantation were invited to meet together in California to share their recollection. At this meeting, the development of transplantation was described as “one of the two or ...

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Brain Death & Organ Donation – Medical, Legal & Ethical issues

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Case study 5: All Or None (Case discussed at brain death symposium held by MOHAN Foundation at CMC Hospital, Vellore in year 2001) 16 year old boy brought to the emergency in unconscious state. Bitten by a snake when playing in the garden. ...

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My Unsung Hero- Mr.N.Sethuraman

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           Born in a staunch orthodox Hindu family a vision of universal brotherhood, in the year 1949, my husband completed schooling from Tanjore District and did his M.Sc. Geoology, from Annamalai University with ...

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Our Exciting Experience With “Organ Donation“ Programme at our School

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C Jasmine, S Krithika, M Nagalakshmi, R Karthik G K Shetty  Vivekananda  Vidyalaya Junior College   We feel proud to introduce ourselves as the students of GK SHETTY VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA JOUNIOR COLLEGE ...

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Corneal Transplant

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Researchers working at Kyoto Prefectural University of medicine. Japan have come up with a transplant technique that is suitable for acute ocular injury as well as chronic phase patients with massive scarring. In this technique corneal epithelial ...

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Liver Transplants

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Time – Saving Liver Transplant Technique     In a field where time holds the key Dr. Elmahdi Elkhammas and D Mitchell Henry from Ohio State University Medical Centre in Columbus have good news. They have developed ...

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Stem Cell Transplant

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Simultaneous stem cell Transplant of help in multiple   Myeloma   Researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle USA presented the result of a pilot study involving 41 patients with multiple myeloma at ...

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Xenotransplants

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“Single Knock out" Pigs Created Pigs have long been consider the most viable le animal as potential sources of organs for humans given the ever going transplant WAITING LIST THE WORLD OVER. However the immune system rejection has ...

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Immunosuppressants

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Rapemune Available in tablet form   Rapemune (Sirolimus), an Immunosuppressant from Wyeth-Ayerst laboratories, was approved for use in the US in September 1999 for kidney transplant patients.  The company has now announced that ...

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R & D in Transplantation

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Say Cheese! Researchers at the University Of Michigan School Of Dentistry in Ann Arbior and Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden may have good reason to smile. Their work on detail pulp cell innervations could have positive ramifications ...

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Issues related to Kidney Recipients

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NUTRITION GUIDELINES FOR CRF PATIENTS A long felt need in the case of children and adults with chronic renal failure has been addressed by the National Kidney Foundation, USA. It had released the K/DOQ/Clinical Practice guidelines for ...

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Eyes

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An Eyeopener - Artificial Silicon retinas Envisioning a bright future for patients with retinitis pigmentosa are artificial silicon retinas (ASR). The ASR consists of a silicon microchip about one - tenth of an inch in diameter and one - ...

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