Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. 8 Issue NO.: 26 (Feb-Jun 2008)
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Presumed consent or mandated choice to overcome organ shortage

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Vol. 8 Issue NO.: 26 (Feb-Jun 2008)
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The global organ shortage is a crisis, but is it a crisis with a cure? Some countries believe- it is. To overcome the problem of organ shortage many countries have used “Presumed consent” (PC) – as the method of consent for organ ...

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“Restored” living donor kidneys used for Transplantation

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Vol. 8 Issue NO.: 26 (Feb-Jun 2008)
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The eternal shortage of organs for transplantation means that all avenues to utilise a donated organ should be explored. Mannami M et al. (2008) have investigated one such avenue (as reported in the Am J Transplant 8:811-818 and Nature Clinical ...

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The altruistic kidney donor chain

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It is the brainchild of University of Toledo’s Dr. Michael Rees; he describes it as the gift that keeps on giving…..meet the never-ending altruistic donor. Dr. Rees says the real challenge is getting funding to pay for the donors to ...

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A winner all the way!

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Kidney transplants can signal a return to an absolutely normal life and that was amply demonstrated at Euro 2008 by 28-yearold Ivan Klasnic. He not only returned to playing top class football just over a year after undergoing a kidney transplant ...

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Courage under fire

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For Mr. S. Murali, a retired airman of the Indian Air Force, and his wife, M. Sivakumari, facing up to the death of their six-year-old son, M. Sivakumar was the ultimate test of courage. While at home in Chidambaram, Sivakumar, a Standard I student ...

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“Organ-a-thon” – A bike-a-thon for organ donation awareness

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The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. MOHAN Foundation has been striving over the past decade to involve people from different walks of life to join it in its journey to create awareness about organ donation. The post-graduate ...

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Turning tragedy into triumph

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Vol. 8 Issue NO.: 26 (Feb-Jun 2008)
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Lalitha Dharmalingam’s family could not have forerseen that a routine evening walk could turn into a tragedy. Lalitha, a resident of Peerkankaranai, Chennai, was hit by an autorickshaw on 17th May 2008 when she was walking near her home. She ...

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Kidney Transplants in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh’s kidney transplant programme has been active for over five years and they have done close to 400 kidney transplants.   More recently the country accepted brain death legislation and they now hope to start the deceased ...

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Corporate initiatives on organ donation

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The HCL Experience - a special feature on the organ donation initiative by HCL Technologies, Chennai. The buzzword is corporate social responsibility; but it hasn’t been just words, but words followed by defi nite action in much of the ...

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Buddhism and Organ Donation

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Continuing our series on religion and organ donation, we present here a compilation of views on Buddhism and organ donation.   Buddhists believe organ donation is a personal decision and should be left to an individual’s ...

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Excerpts of proposed amendments in transplantation of Human Organs Act

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The Union Parliament had enacted the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) in 1994 and the Act came into force in February, 1995. The main purpose of the Act is to regulate the removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for ...

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Cadaver Organ Donation Activity (January - June 2008)

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