Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. II Issue NO.: 5 (February 2000)
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Memorial Service” for donor families in Chennai

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This issue of the “Indian Transplant Newsletter” is special because it covers an event called “The Memorial Service” organised by MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) for cadaver organ donor families in Chennai on ...

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Preservation Fluids

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Preservation fluids influence the cadaver graft function, survival rates and complications. The type of fluid used is even more critical in liver transplantation. The preservation fluids are expensive, are currently being imported, and are not ...

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Programme launched to probe trafficking in organs

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  Organs Watch – a first-of-its-kind program was launched on November 8, 1999 to identify human rights abuses surrounding the trafficking of organs by two professors from the University of California, Berkeley, and two professors from ...

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Racism rears its head in Organ Transplantation

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Racism reared its ugly head in an incident in the U.K, involving a donor family who insisted that the donated organ should go only to white patient and not to a “coloured” person. Shockingly, the kidney was accepted on those terms and ...

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Eminent figures of Transplantation

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Dr. Fritz Bach was one of the three distinguished recipients of the 1998 Medawar Prize. His scientific accomplishments are enormous and have spanned four decades. He was also appointed as the first recipient of the Lewis Thomas Chair at Harvard ...

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6th All India Transplant Games Held

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The 6 th All India Transplant Games were held at the Lal Bahadur Stadium, Hyderabad on the 20 th and 21 st November, 1999. The games were held under the banner of the “All India Transplant Games Federation” of which Dr. R. V. ...

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All India Transplant Games Meet

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It was a bright sunny morning on November 20 th and many roads and major junctions leading to the stadium were decorated with lots of banners, about organ donation and games meet, waving and fluttering in the breeze welcoming the participants. The ...

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Memorial Service for the Organ Donors of Chennai

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Memorial Service for the Organ Donors of Chennai   At an emotionally very moving function on the 30 th October, 1999 twenty one-organ donor families were honoured by Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation at a function in ...

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Hand Transplants

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Hands On! More on the first modern Hand transplant The world’s first modern hand transplant was performed on sept.23,1998, in France (Transplantation Journal Watch, Vol l  Issue I). It is now more than a year since the transplant ...

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Lung Transplants

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Youngest Double Lung transplant recipient Aseven year old, Laura Guzman of Chicago, USA, became the Chicago area's youngest double lung transplant recipient on August 9, 1999. It also marked the first double lung transplant at childrem's ...

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Immunosuppressants

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A potential immunosuppressant A compound called IPL 423,323 has been selected, by the biopharmaceutical company Inflazyme pharmaceuticals, to study as a potential new treatment for organ rejection and psoriasis. According to the company, the ...

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Liver Transplants

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Cadaveric split liver transplants preferred to living-donor transplants The first international symposium dedicated to expanding the donor pool was held in Pittsburgh in August 1999. In a statement, the meeting’s sponsor, the university ...

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R & D in Transplantation

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New Heart Storage Solution Cleared by FDA Celsior – the first standardized flushing and cold storage solution for donor hearts was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States last year. According to ...

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Issues related to Kidney Transplantation

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HLA matching at local level more beneficial Should organs be allocated on a national or local basis? This  is the ongoing debate in the U.S.A. mark A. Schnitzler, PH.D, of Washington University School of Medicine and colleagues addressed ...

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Lung Transplantation

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Lung transplantation increases survival of children with cystic fibrosis  A study was done at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, to evaluate the effect of lung transplantation on children with cystic fibres. 124 ...

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liver Transplantation

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1) Lamlvudine reduces post-transplant recurrence of Hepatitis B virus infection & can delay the need for Liver Transplantation in some patients with Chronic Hepatitis B   At the 50 th annual meeting of the American Association ...

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Immunosuppressive Drugs

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Rapamycin effective in preventing organ rejection As part of the on-going research on immunosuppressants some interesting findings have come up. Laurence A. Turka of the University of Pennsylvania and Terry B. Strom of Harvard Medical School ...

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R & D in Transplantation

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I) Transplantation Tolerance  Hans J. sclitt and colleagues in Hanorver, Germany, in a study based on heart transplant in rats, reported that the induction of transplant tolerance depends on the small number of blood cells that are passed ...

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Xenotransplantation

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 No infection in humans from pig virus  A report in the august 20, 1999 of science()1999: 285:1236-1241)says that in retrospective study conducted to access the safety of xeno-transplantation ,  researchers found no evidence of ...

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