Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. V Issue NO.14. Feb-Jun 2003
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Liver Transplant Group formed in the Country

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Technically, Liver transplant is the most demanding of all solid organ transplants and also perhaps the most difficult. However once transplanted the long term results are gratifying and comparable if not better than kidney transplants. The first ...

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VIII All India Transplant Games and First Official SAARC Transplant Games

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To bring together the Transplant patients of various organs on one common platform Chennai will host the above games on 13 th and 14 th of December 2003.For a change, the show is led by the two NGOs (MOHAN and TANKER) rather than hospitals. ...

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Efficient Home Dialysis System in the Offing

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A major technological advance in a home dialysis system could make it possible over the next four or five years for patients’ nephrologist, at Cincinnati children’s Hospital Medical Center who has been working on this for more than a ...

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A Case For Kidney- Shaped Airports!

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Do airports have to be kidney shaped? If we take our cue from nature and look at how our kidneys have an efficient shape for the purpose of transferring elements from one medium to another, well, airports do precisely that as well. Therefore, it ...

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Organ Transplant Mix-up in the U.S.

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A tragic procedural error led to the tragic end of Jessica Santillan, a 17-year old girl from Mexico, after she underwent transplant surgery at Duke University Hospital, North Carolina, U.S.A. Jessica had a 'heart-Lung' transplant on February 7, ...

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A Question of Ethics or Economics

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Once again, questions are being raised about the organ transplantation scenario in China and Japan. China has already been in the dock for using organs from criminals who have received the death penalty. Apparently, the death penalty can be applied ...

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Baby up for Organ Sale

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The organ trade, it seems, will spare no one and in a particularly cruel twist to the tale, it was the mother herself who auctioned her baby boy off for his organs to be used in transplants. The three-member gang of Ukrainians, including the baby's ...

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Health and Budget 2003

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The Union Budget for 2003 has devoted some attention to the health sector, raising hopes that this would set a trend of pro-active policy-making, both at the Centre and the State Governments to make health care affordable and of higher quality. ...

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Wings to the Rescue

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It was a question of getting a surgeon to the hospital on time so that he would perform a life-saving organ transplant and the "wings" that rose to the occasion and did precisely that was an aircraft from Taneja Aerospace and Aviation Ltd (TAAL), a ...

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Hospitals Under Scrutiny in Chennai For Trading In Organs

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Various hospitals in Chennai, which have been granted registration to perform kidney transplants under the "Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994," will need to clean up their act if they want to continue performing transplants. According to the ...

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Summary of Proceedings of the First National Consensus Symposium on Liver Transplantation and Cadaveric Organ Donation

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The First National Consensus Symposium on Liver Transplantation and Cadaveric Organ Donation was held at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi on 2 February 2003. This was the culmination of a keen desire on the part of most of us working towards ...

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Workshop on the implementation of the transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994: Challenges and Policy Options

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As a part of a research study on "Healthcare Regulations in Tamil Nadu", the Foundation for Sustainable Development at IIT (M) conducted a workshop on "Implementation of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994: Challenges and Policy Options" ...

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First Bone Bank in India to be Started in Chennai

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It is a step in the right direction, literally, for patients with bone cancer, with the Government of Tamil Nadu approving in principle the establishment of the first Bone Bank in the country in the Government General Hospital, Chennai. Leading the ...

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Mrs. Kannambal Chandrasekaran - In the Footsteps of Florence Nightingale.. Forever

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Mrs. Kannambal Chandrasekaran did the nursing profession proud not only in life, but also in death. This dynamic lady who was born on March 2, 1944 in Coimbatore received her Diploma in Nursing from Christian Medical College, Vellore. She then ...

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NKF, USA - Honours Dr. Georgi Abraham

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Dr. Georgi Abraham was the recipient this year of the prestigious Gold Medal for his achievements from the National Kidney Foundation of USA. He is considered as the father of the CAPO programme in India. He received the gold medal during the ...

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Kidney Transplantation

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Kaposi's Sarcoma Linked to Stowaways in Transplanted Kidneys Mario Luppi of the university of Modena and Reggio Emilia also of Modena, Italy and colleagues analyzed cancerous  skin cells from six women with Kaposi's sarcoma. These ...

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The economic implications of HLA matching in Cadaveric Renal Transplantation

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Some years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine carried an article on the economic implications of HLA matching in cadaveric renal transplantation, in the context of local versus national allocation of organs and a debate of sorts ensued. This ...

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Incidence of Chronic Kidney disease in the US

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health used the recently developed National Kidney. Foundation Clinical Practice Guide lines, which provide a standardized definition of chronic kidney diseases and stages, to a nationally ...

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Cadaver Organ donation and Transplantationin Saudi Arabia

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The kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has an active cadaver organ donation and transplantation programmes under the auspices of the Saudi centre for organ transplantation scholars approved the act of organ donation. SCOT then launched a major publicity ...

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Cadaver Organ donation and Transplantation in India

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The transplantation of human organs (THO) Act, 1994, kick-started the cadaver transplantation programme in India with its acceptances of brain death as a definition of death. The cadaver transplantation activity in India from January 1995 to June ...

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Indian Cadaver Figures 1995 - 2003

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Place Kidney Liver Heart Chennai 178 7 15 Vellore 37 3   Coimbatore 28     ...

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