Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. VI Issue NO.20/21. Jun-Oct 2005
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Organ Failure and Transplantation in Asia

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Asia is the largest of the seven continents and has population of 3.6 billion people currently. It makes up 56% of the words population of 6.4 billion people. This region has 51 of the words 235 countries and it also has some of the fastest growing ...

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Successful Survival of AIDS patient after Heart Transplant

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Robert Zackin, of the Harvard School, in the U.S., became infected with HIV in 1986 and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1992. He was put on antiviral drugs to keep the AIDS in check, but the drugs themselves can have devastating side effects and damage ...

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Stem cells used to treat blindness

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Taking a cue from India, scientists based at the Centre for Sight in East Grinstead have become the first UK team to use adult stem cells in treating blindness. Their success mirrors years of similar work conducted by Indian scientists based at the ...

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U.S. Transplant Games

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The U.S. Transplant Games have been held every two years since 1990 by the National Kidney Foundation to honour transplant patients and donors. The 2004 Transplant Games held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were especially significant since they marked ...

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Immunosuppression – Is less better?

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How much immunosuppression is enough for lung transplant patients has been a question that doctors have struggled with for years.  It could well mean the difference between life and death for a patient because these drugs, which suppress the ...

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Rabies - Infected organ donor linked to four recipient deaths

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Tragedy struck yet again at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas when a recipient apparently contracted rabies after receiving a piece of artery necessary for the successful completion of a liver transplant. The liver came from a healthy ...

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Face to Face

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Here is something that sounds like it is right out of a sci-fi movie-a  woman looks at herself in the mirror, but the reflection is not one she recognises because it’s not here old familiar face looking back at her, but someone ...

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Chinese person longest surviving heart-kidney transplant recipient in Asia

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Song Shuihong, 47, from China has set a record in Asia, having survived for nearly 20 months, after having a heart-kidney transplant operation. The previous survival period for a recipient was less than 100 days. Song was diagnosed with ...

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Organ Transplants in Japan on the Rise

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Organ transplants from brain-dead donors are becoming more frequent in Japan. The organ transplant law in Japan came into effect in October 1997 and the first transplant took place in February 1999. The increasing frequency of transplants is due, ...

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Kolkata on the Cadaver donation Map

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On 8 April 2005, two cadaver renal transplantations were performed successfully at the Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata. Both the recipients were discharged from the hospital with normal renal function. The donor was a 38 year old Bengali ...

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Second NATCO Meet at Bangalore

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A meet of transplant coordinators was organised, under the auspices of the National Association of Transplant Coordinators, by FORTE, Bangalore, at Manipal Hospital on 23 April 2005. The programme was aimed at bringing together transplant ...

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Corneal Transplant done in Kashmir after three decades

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After a gap of 32 years, two corneal transplants were performed in Sringar, Kashmir, in April 2005 by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The transplants were done on a 17 year old girl and a 45 ...

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Maharashtra Cadaver Organ Donation Day

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MOHAN Foundation, Pune, represented by its coordinator, Mrs. Nayan Dhamdhere, organised “Maharashtra Cadaver Organ Donation Day” on 27 March 2005. A motor rally with a mobile exhibition and street play was organised to mark the ...

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“The Noble Wish”- Film Release in Hyderabad

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The Hyderabad Chapter of MOHAN Foundation released a film on organ donation to create awareness and sensitise people to the idea of organ donation. Titled “The Noble Wish” the film depicts the last wish of an organ donor in a simple and ...

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Organ Donation bridges communal divide

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Organ failure and death cuts across religious lines, but fortunately, so too does the selfless desire to help one’s fellow human beings in pain and suffering. A heart warming case in point is the story of 48-years old Zayeeda (name changed to ...

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Hope for heart-failure Patients

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Pushpa Gupta has been bed-ridden for the last seven years with chronic heart failure. The poor pumping mechanism of the heart hampers the functioning of the liver and kidneys as well due to inadequate blood supply. Chronic heart failure eventually ...

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Justice in the Dock

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Sometimes timely medical intervention makes all the difference between life and death, but in the case of 61 year old Suresh Chander, it was timely judicial intervention that could have made that difference, but didn’t. He died waiting for a ...

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Organ Donation bridges communal divide

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G. Jayalakshimi and Ayanti Guha , Transplant Coordinators – Global Hospitals, Hyderabad Transplantation of human organs is undoubtedly one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of this century. However very few Indians patients are able ...

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Meniscal Transplants

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Dr. Venkatachalam Meniscal Injuries  The menisci are semilunar cartilages in the knee joint. When intact they distribute stress inside  the knee joint  and cat like washers. They also help in lubrication of the joint. They ...

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Hounouring the Organ Donors of Hyderabad and their families

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We salute their courage and generosity M. S. MADHAVI , wife of Vanama Suresh, a resident of Kothagudem, Andrhra Pradesh, suddenly developed vomiting and severe headache. She was admitted to KIMA on 10 Nov 2004 and was operated on for brain ...

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