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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...