Dr. Felix Rapaport is a familiar name in the world of transplantation. He served the Transplantation Society as Founding Secretary, past-President, and continuous council membership for 32 years and was also the Founder and Editor of ...
For a revolution to happen many technologies help to evolve simultaneously and peak at the same time. We are on the fringe of such a revolution in the field of transplantation. The chemical book of life comprises of 3.2 billion characters arranged ...
Despite our constant reminders many centers undertaking cadaver transplantation failed to provide their latest figures. This makes compiling of such information very difficult. On the last count (September 1999), 272 kidney, 26 heart, 1 lung, 11 ...
The world’s first liver transplant involving four patients was carried out by doctors at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan last year. Working in four teams, 20 doctors performed a series of operations lasting 26 hours. In all, three patients ...
A double forearm transplant was successfully performed in January this year in France. The recipient was Denis Chatelier whose forearm had been shattered by a home-made bomb. The surgery was performed by Dr. Jean-Michel Dubenard at Lyon Eduoard ...
“Her left arm and hand is pink and warm and the nails are growing. There is a little movement in hand”. This was Malaysian Health Minister Chua JuiMeng speaking to reporters about a month after the world’s first arm and hand ...
The Center for Organ Recovery & Education in the USA honored about 2,100 donor family members in May this year. The eighth annual ceremony was held at its headquarters in Pittsburgh followed by a reception. According to Patricia KailKornick, ...
Is there life without immunosuppression? This is the question that Dr. George Mazariegos and his colleagues are trying to answer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. Their study on liver transplant ...
A workshop on intensive care of the brain dead multi-organ donor was held on June 11, 2000 at Sundaram Medical Foundation, Anna Nagar, Chennai. The Chennai chapter of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine and MOHAN Foundation jointly ...
Inmates of Vadodara central jail serving life sentences for murder have decided to donate their eyes. On March 31, they signed the eye donation form and created history. The youngest donor, 23 year old, Pinto says “there is no life for us ...
The Manipal Heart Foundation , Bangalore was the scene of a successful homograft in a patient suffering from Marfan’s syndrome , which is a rare disorder affecting the blood vessels of the body. Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty explained that in ...
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a person with one kidney should be considered physically handicapped for the benefit of job reservation .A division bench allowed the plea of Chander Bhan who has only one kidney and had applied to ...
" Let us try not to waste organs" was the sentiment that brought together leading hospital in Chennai to start the " Initiative for organ sharing Groups" (IOSG). The first meeting was held in December 1999 under the auspices of MOHAN Foundation. ...
Foundation for Organ Retrieval & Transplant Education (FORTE) at Bangalore organized a walkathon in the month of February to spread the awareness about cadaver organ donation. The event as flagged off by the Chief Minister S.M. Krishna near ...
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh have now been found selling their kidneys in Delhi. A broker shatrugenudu Raju and his accomplice. Srinivasamurthy were remanded to judicial custody in May this year and charged with causing harm and cheating under section ...
Dr. K. Ganapahy M.S..FACS.FICS, Ph.D-eminent neurosurgeon, Secretary- Neurological Society of India, Member-Neuro traumatology section of the Neurological society of India secretary General –Asian Australasian society Neurological ...
Editor’s note: Dr. K. Ganapathy has certified the first multi-organ brain dead donor in the country. This is his account of the event that created history. Courtesy “The Hindu” January 21, 1996. ...
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Hospital Kidney Heart Liver Lungs Chennai Apollo Hospitals* 6 1 Sri Ramachandra Medical College ...
INTERNATIONAL DONOR RATES – 1998 DONORS PER MILLION POPULATION Spain 31.5 USA 21.2 France 16.9 Portugal 16.7 Scandia ...