Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. I Issue NO.: 3 (June 1999)
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Asking for Organs

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The success of cadaver transplant programmes depends to a great extent on the person asking for organs from relatives and his or her approach to the situation. In a “Brain Death” situation this is one of the most difficult tasks for a ...

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“Journal Watch” Section

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The “Indian Transplant Newsletter” has added a “Journal Watch” section with this issue and this will become a regular feature of the Newsletter. This section will have summaries of important transplant related articles from ...

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Income tax refunds helps increase "Awareness Fund Coffer"

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Pennsylvania has yet another new organ donation awareness project. Governor Tom Ridge talking about the urgent need for organ donation awareness said, “One person dies every other day, in, our common wealth waiting for a transplant. More ...

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Transplant baby becomes heart donor

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A ten-month-old boy, Joey Bullock of Lancaster, Texas, who received a liver and bowel transplant become a heart donor after he died in mid November of an unrelated cause. He was recovering from his transplant when he choked on mucus, which led to ...

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Kidney Transplants - A perfect match & more

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Teresa Fleming, of Manchester Township, Pennsylvania, had a Kidney transplant in 1984 and went on dialysis after the graft failed eight years later. She had no idea that she was going to find her match- in more ways than one- somewhere cross the ...

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Snippets

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ORGAN STORAGE Organ preservation is the key to successful organ transplants today. The ancient Egyptians, in a way, kick started the concept of organ storage. The word Mummies and Egypt are synonymous. The mummification of dead bodies took ...

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xenotransplanantation idea gaining support

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Xenotransplantation is slowly getting the thumps up from not only physicians, surgeons and transplant recipients but also the American public. In a poll conducted by the National Kidney Foundation of 1200 randomly selected Americans, 62% accepted ...

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Kidneys offered from suicide victim

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KIDNEYS OFFERED FROM SUICIDE VICTIM Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired Michigan pathologist, who believes in assisted suicide helped a 45- year-old quadriplegic commit suicide in June 1998. He then offered the man’s kidneys for ...

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Lack of Organ donations in Japan

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LACK OF ORGAN DONATIONS IN JAPAN In June 1997, Japan passed a new law accepting the concept of brain death and permitting organ donations from persons who have been declared brain dead. Unfortunately, no heart, liver or lung transplantation ...

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Live related Liver Transplants - A beginning made in India

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REBECCA THOMAS, FORTE, BANGALORE When four of the seven listed pediatric patients waiting for liver transplant died at St. John’s Bangalore, it became obvious that for children different strategies would have to be adopted. One patient ...

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Isot meet at Calcutta

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Dr. Anant Kumar, Secretary, ISOT The 11 th ISOT meeting was held in Calcutta from 29 th to 31 st Jan. 1999. It was well attended by 150 delegates and Dr. Piyush N. Joshi was the guest from Tennessee, USA. He delivered a lecture on ...

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Urology Conference at Bhubaneswar discusses Cadaver Transplantation Issues

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A similar symposium on Cadaver Renal Transplants was organised earlier in the month of January at the Annual conference of The Urological Society of India at Bhubaneswar. The following doctors participated in the symposium covering the various ...

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Patient support group launched in Bombay

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After a successful launch of patient support group for Kidney Transplant and failure patients at Chennai a similar support group was launched by MOHAN Foundation at Bombay on 18 th  April, 1999 with the help of Mrs. Malathi Venkatesan ...

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The Bombay Experience with Cadaver Transplant- Past and Present

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One of the first people who wrote to us after the very first issue of the Indian Transplant Newsletter was Padma Shri D. K. Karanjavala, M.S, FRCS (Eng) from Bombay. Many of us tend to think of cadaveric transplants in India as new but cadaveric ...

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She gave her all..

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Loretta Andrews – wife, mother, friend of the homeless and of children in need. So many descriptions but the one that fitted her perfectly is the one that many of us only aspire to be a fine human being. She was here in Chennai as part of ...

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Milestones

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First Successful Hand transplant Performed in France in September 1998. (see report Journal watch) First Successful Larynx Transplant Performed in Cleveland Clinic, U.S.A. in January 1998. (see report Journal watch) First Brain Cell ...

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Cadaver Transplant Activity

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Cadaver Transplant Activity In Punjab & Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Uttar Pradesh(upto March 1999)   Place Kidney Heart Liver Lungs Chandigarh ...

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