ITN Vol 1; Issue 3, 1999

The Bombay Experience with Cadaver Transplant- Past and Present

One of the first people who wrote to ITN after the first issue of the Indian Transplant Newsletter was Padma Shri Dr. D.K. Karanjavala, M.S, FRCS (Eng) from Bombay.

“... Many of us tend to think of cadaveric transplants in India as new but cadaveric renal transplantation were carried out in the mid 1960's by Dr. D. K.Karanjavala and his team at the K.E.M Hospital, Bombay. Dr. Karanjavala was the Urologist & Surgeon-in-charge of Kidney Transplant programme at K.E.M Hospital for several years. Their work was published in the Indian Journal of Surgery – “Cadaveric Renal Transplantation; a report of initial experience ...”