Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. IV Issue NO.13. Oct 2002 - Feb 2003
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2002 – The Year of Kidney Scandals

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In the field of medicine” The year of 2002” has been the year of kidney scandals in India. From South to north we have seen how the unrelated transplants trade has flourished. One after another kidney scandals haunted us. The few states ...

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2002-The Year also of Shift in Attitude to organ donation

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The only redeeming feature of the year has been the slight shift in the attitude of public in India towards organ donation. Some of us who have been in the forefront of the cadaver organ donation program have seen this slight shift. In the last six ...

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Face off

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Remember the John Travolta/Nicolas cage movie “Face OFF”  where they exchange appearances – well it looks  real life is about  to imitate reel life. Face transplants could become a reality in as short a time  ...

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First Whole Ovary Transplant in China

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  A history of sorts was created on March 5, 2002 with the first whole ovary transplant being performed in china at the Zhejiang university medical school on a 34 year old woman who had to have her own ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed ...

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Gene therapy to the rescue

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When Wilco Conradi was born two years ago in the Netherlands with severe combined immunodeficiency of SICD it seemed that his life  would centre around  the germ proof plastic  enclosure which would  be his living quarters and ...

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Religion, War – no bar to Organ Donation

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In the midst of all conflicts in the Middle East between the Palestinian and the Israelis, there are still acts of such generosity of spirit that it renews one’s faith in Humanity. One such act happened on June 5, 2001 when the family of ...

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Here’s to life

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Raising a toast to life anew is18 year for Reuben Bhowmick from Bangalore, all thanks to the presence of mind and altruism of a family of a youth  who died in an accident. For Reuben and his father, it was nothing short of a miracle that a ...

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India Protests Kidney removal from Indian in Bahrain

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Bringing into prominence the extremely delicate scenario in which organ donation takes place and the importance of the family in giving consent was an incident that took place in Bahrain in July 2002. D. Vinod Kumar 28, from Kerala was critically ...

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Ovarian transplant done in India

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Close to the heels of the first ovarian transplant done in China, the first ovarian transplant was done in India of March 29, 2002 in Mumbai.  The recipient was a 17 year old Nita (named changes) born with Turners syndrome – a genetic ...

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Mani – Another unsung hero

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Mani Kandan was born on March 23 1973. He graduated from Calicut Regional Engineering College. He was very sensible, compassionate and quiet person who always wanted to help others. Misfortune struck his family when he started getting headaches. ...

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13th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation

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The 13 th annual meeting of the Indian society of organ transplantation was held from 26 th -28 th Septemeber 2002 at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate institute of medical Sciences, Lucknow. Almost 100 national and six international invited delegates ...

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Kidney trade in Punjab

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The epicenter of kidney trade seems to have moved  to Punjab with cases of  kidneys  being bought  and sold coming  to light in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana. In Amritsar and Jalandhar, the police produced the alleged ...

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Focus on need for more Organ Retrieval Centres

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In the face of ever growing need for organs the focus has shifted to peripheral centres, which  get a large number of brain death cases. Unfortunately, organs cannot be retrieved from these hospitals , as they are not registered under the ...

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Kidney Transplantation

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Excellent long-term results of cadaveric kidney transplantation in Korea    Doctors in the division of transplantation surgery Department of surgery, chonnam National University medical school, Kwangju, Korea and the department ...

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liver Transplantation

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Tuberculosis after liver transplantation Tuberculosis (TB) has recently been found to cause serve infection in patients post transplantation and therefore patient care after liver transplantation should also focus on the possibility of TB ...

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Non-heartbeating donor kidneys associated with excellent patient and graft survival

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A study of 31 uncontrolled non-heart beating donor (NHBD) kidneys put to rest the concern of poor function when using cold storage preservation for these kidneys. The median warm ischemia time (WIT) was 30 minutes (range 7-60). All cases prior to ...

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Issues related to organ donation trends in living related organ donation

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What role does gender and financial status play in a person agreeing to be a live – related kidney donor? Attempting to answer these questions was a study conducted by doctors from postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, ...

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Computerized registry for transplant waiting list and organ matching software

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Since the Transplantation of Human Organ Act was passed in 1994, the total number of cadaver transplants done for various solid organs is as follows( Jan 1995 – Jun 2001) : Kidney -379, Heart – 34, Liver – 12,Pancreas – ...

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Tuberculosis after liver transplantation

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Tuberculosis (TB) has recently been found to cause serve infection in patients post transplantation and therefore patient care after liver transplantation should also focus on the possibility of TB developing post liver transplantation one such ...

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UW solution holds promise for cryopreservation of primary isolated hepatocytes

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Researchers at the Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College and the Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry in Japan carried out a study to evaluate the cytoprotective effect of University ...

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Moving towards developing a Bioartificial Hepatic Organ

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A step in the right direction in constructing a bioartificial hepatic organ was taken by researchers at the Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine And Dentisity, Japan and Harvard-massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

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