Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. I Issue NO.: 4 (October 1999)
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Dissatisfaction of Cadaver Organ Donor Families

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Organ Transplantation is not just another surgery. Behind every story of transplantation is the story of either sudden tragedy or supreme sacrifice. There is almost holiness about the event. The emotional sensitivity of the cadaver donor family ...

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Annual issue of the Newsletter

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The current issue is the first annual issue of the newsletter. It contains the compiled cadaver transplant figures from our country from all the centres (mostly from 1994-95) since the THO act was passed to the present day. The figures quoted in ...

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Pigs and Xeno-transplantation

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Professor Ian Wilmut has moved on from sheep to pigs. The man was catapulted to fame with the creation of Dolly, the cloned sheep, is now trying his hand at cloning pigs. He feels that pigs would be the perfect source of organs for transplant into ...

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Kindeys for sale on the internet

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Professor Ian Wilmut has moved on from sheep to pigs. The man was catapulted to fame with the creation of Dolly, the cloned sheep, is now trying his hand at cloning pigs. He feels that pigs would be the perfect source of organs for transplant into ...

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Pennsylvania Programme gives $300 to families for funeral costs

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Pennsylvania families of organ donors will receive $300 toward their loved one’s funeral expenses in a new programme that started in July 1999.The money from the state’s Organ Donor Awareness Trust Fund will be given to the funeral home ...

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Combined Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation done in India

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History was created in the transplantation diary of India when the first combined pancreas and kidney transplantation was done at the Institute of kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Civil Hospital Compound, Asarwa, Ahmedabad on July 17, 1999 ...

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Central Organ registry to be started

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The Tamil Nadu- Dr. MGR University with Dr. K. Anandakannan, the Vice Chancellor, at its helm has restarted efforts to get the Central Organ Registry going. First time round, the registry failed to take off but hopes are high this time. The ...

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My heart will go on

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When Hema Sundar Raj passed away on September 23, 1995, her heart was transplanted into Mymoon Beevi at Madras Medical Mission hospital, Chennai. It has been four years now and Mymoon Beevi, the country’s first heart transplant patient is ...

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Cadaver Transplantation Workshop Held

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A cadaver transplantation workshop was held on August 12, 1999 as part of ASUCON’99 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institution, Chennai. The workshop covered a wide range of topics and was of interest not only to those ...

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The Saviour in search of eyes

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A small town, Sidhpur, on the banks of the Saraswathi boasts of a doctor who has dedicated his life to a cause that is extremely dear to his heart - eye donation. He does this in his own unique manner. He embarked on this journey when he lost his ...

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ISOT 2000 to be held at Chandigarh

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The 12 th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT) is to be held at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India from 18 th – 20 th February 2000. In keeping with the ...

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A Man with a Mission – T.V.Raghavan

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A Man with a Mission – T.V.R AGHAVAN   “The life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.” – Swami Vivekananda. So began ...

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The Worldly Sojourn

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“By the grace of god, the brief sojourn, this self had passed through this life, has been one with no regrets. It was a simple life of contentment and happiness in small achievements in the material, physical and spiritual fields. I have ...

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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By: Mrs. Malathi Venkatesan Chronic Renal Failure is usually accompanied by a host of other diverse problems that are something to be reckoned with besides kidney failure. Nausea, breathlessness, extreme exhaustion and chronic fatigue are some ...

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Feedback

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“I am in the process of starting a renal unit at our institute and the dialysis facility is just being set up. Transplantation is a target for the future for us. It is very heartening to note the efforts you are putting in to promote the ...

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Cadaver Transplant Activity all India Figures (1995 – 1999)

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Place Period of Activity Kidney Heart Liver Lungs Pancreas Ahmedabad * Combined Kidney-Pancreas 1999 3 - - - ...

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