Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. IV Issue NO.: 15 (Jun-Oct 2003)
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National Transplant Coordinators Forum Formated at Hyderabad

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Vol. IV Issue NO.: 15 (Jun-Oct 2003)
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The maturity of a cadaver transplant programme in a country is judged by a few factors. One of these factors include having a cohesive Transplant Co-ordinators group. In India, we took the first step in this direction at the last Indian Society of ...

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World Organ Donors Day

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Vol.IV Issue No.15. JUNE - OCTOBER 2003
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In USA national Organ donors day is celebrated in the month of February, similar days are celebrated in other countries too. It is time that the WHO declares a “world Organ Day” or even a week. The Prime Minister in India has recently ...

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All India & SAARC Transplant Games- An Event for the Community

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Vol.IV Issue No.15. JUNE - OCTOBER 2003
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The forthcoming VIII Transplant Games t be held at Chennai has shown some keen  participation so far and for the first time will have not only Kidney transplant patients but also patients, who have undergone liver and heart transplants. The ...

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Scaling New Heights

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Kelly Perkins likes climbing mountains, which proves that she not only has a head for heights, but more importantly, the heart for it. Kelly, who is from California, is a heart transplant patient. She had the transplant in 1995. In the weeks ...

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Triple Switch Kidney Transplant

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What does one do when a kidney failure patient awaiting transplant has w willing donor, but their blood or tissue types don’t match? Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, seems to have found an answer to that question. The ...

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The Heart of the Matter

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Getting to the heart of any controversy is difficult, but when the heart, quite literally, becomes the heart of a controversy, it becomes twice as difficult. The controversy started when a prison inmate in California, USA, received a heart ...

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Living Lung Donation

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The recipient of a living lung donation requires not one, but two donors. This is because the donors gives one lobe each, which are then combined to form a single lung for the recipient. The first living lung donation, according to UNOS, was in ...

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Living Heart Donation

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Odd, but true-living heart donation can be done but odder still, it can only be done by an individual requiring a lung transplant. This is because the individual would receive a heart-lung bloc donation from a cadaver, and the individual's own ...

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3rd August to be Observed as Heart Transplant Day in India

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Heartwarming news indeed! August 3 rd has been declared Heart Transplantation Day by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He announced this at a function held at his Race Course Road residence to mark the first heart transplant carried out ...

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First Cadaveric Bone and Joint Transplantation done in Chennai

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On July 8, 2003 the first cadaveric bone and joint transplantation surgery was performed at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Government General Hospital, Chennai. The patient Mr. sivakumar (22 Years) had none cancer of the leg (osteosarcoma ...

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Annual conference of the Indian society of organ transplantation(ISOT-2003) held at Hyderabad

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The   14 th  Annual conference of the ISOT was held at Hyderabad from 7 th  to 10 th  August 2003 at Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy Human Resouces Development Institute. Pre-conference workshops on kidney (Lap ...

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Issues related to Kidney Transplantation

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Vol. IV Issue NO.: 15 (Jun-Oct 2003)
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Urological Complications after Renal Transplantation: A Single Center Review on 1100 Cases A retrospective review of 1100 cases of consecutive live-donor renal transplants done between 1989 and 2002 in the Department of Urology and Renal ...

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Issues related to Liver Transplantation

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Vol.04 Issue No.15. June- October 2003
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Liver transplantation in India               Is liver transplantation in India a viable proposition? The experience at Indraprasatha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi definitely suggests ...

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Mrs. B. Vijayalakshmi Raj – The Art of “Giving” Hyderabad

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Mrs. B. Vijalakshmi Raj (68 years) was a multifaceted personality –a social activist, a juvenile court judge and editor of a monthly magazine called “Anaamika”- who gave her best to all the roles she chose to play and when she ...

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Mrs. Daisy Rani (Coimbatore)

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Vol.04 Issue No.15. June- October 2003
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Mrs. Daisy Rani, a 40-year-old lady, who lived in Coimbatore, went to Trivandrum to undergo brain surgery. Unfortunately, following the surgery she did not recover and was declared brain dead. Her husband, transcending his grief, decided to donate ...

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