Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. III Issue NO.: 8 (February 2001)

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Is it time to have a "Common platform" for eye and solid organ donation campaign

In the last 10 year the eye donation programme in India is slowly coming of age, thanks to a lot of efforts and excellent supports from various NGO’s, International fellowship organization and eye bank of India.   Something similar ...

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Death of Prakash

Prakash was a 31 year old very enthusiastic young man who was full of vitality. He had undergone a successful cadaver transplant three year ago at one of the hospitals in Chennai. He hailed from Erode and committed to the cause of promoting organ ...

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2001 International transplant directory

The 2001 edition of the international transplant directory has been completely updated and contains the most accurate information available on the world of transplantation. The directory is organized in an easy-to-use format containing the names, ...

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Witnessing brain death tests cold help families cope

Allowing relatives to witness tests to confirm a loved one is brain dead may help them to cope with their loss, doctors and nurses said in London, U.K. Despite explanations form medical staff,      families often find it ...

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A Case of nerves!

In November 2000 surgeons at Memorial Hermann children’s hospitals in Houston, Texas were literally working on a case of nerves .They performed the first neither living -do-nor nerve transplant in an 8-months old boy who had a brachial plexus ...

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Study on growing Liver tissue from Bone Marrow

Scientists from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and London’s Imperial College of Medicine and Royal Free Hospital are studying the possible of stimulating liver regeneration using cells from the patient’s own bone marrow. ...

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“THO”Act shows its muscle

The “Transplantation of Human Organs Act" spares no one violating the provision that are laid down by it, be it a medical practitioner or a lay person .A court ruling in new Delhi denied bail to three people including two doctors who were ...

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THO Act Chapter VI – Offences and Penalities

18. (1)Any person who renders his services to or at any hospital and who, for purposes of transplantation, conducts, associates with, or helps in any manner in the removal of any human organ without authority, shall be punishable with imprisonment ...

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Organ Donation Awareness Week

Actor Sarathkumar, Host of the popular television Tamil quiz show” Koteeswaran”came out of the tube to be in direct touch with the people in January this year as part of “Organ Donation Week”. The campaign was organized by ...

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A Noble gesture in Chennai

The government general hospital, Chennai was in the news some month ago for saving the lives of two people suffering from chronic renal failure .The kidney transplant that saved them were made possible by the noble and generous act of organ ...

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Organ donation in Australia- an overview

Greg Armstrong Vice President, International transplant Coordinators Society Brisbane, Australia Cadaveric organ donation commenced in Australia in the 1960s with the first cadaveric organ transplant (kidney) being performed in ...

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Indian experience with social, moral & ethical issues

Cases study 2 : The belligerent family ...

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Longest surviving patient of kidney transplantation in India

“My patient Mr. J. M. Tanna aged 75 years was transplanted on 1st October 1970, by Mr. Frank Ellis, and assisted ...

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Hand Transplants

Centre of excellence for hand transplantation established in Houston, USA The Houston and transplant composite tissue allograft institute has been established by the Park Plaza Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA, as a research and clinical ...

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Kidney Transplants

Largest Study in the world on Cancer mortality in Kidney transplant recipients The largest study of its kind in the world was done in Britian to evaluate cancer mortality in kidney transplant recipients. A cohort of over 24000 transplant ...

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Heart Transplants

Watch what you eat! ...

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Issues related to kidney transplantation : young versus old

Young versus old  Does the age of donors matter in cadaver kidney transplants ? Apparently, it does. ...

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Intestinal transplantation

The challenge of post-operative management of patients following intestinal transplantation  ...

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Bone Marrow Transplantation

“MINI” bone marrow transplants effective against haematologic malignancies   ...

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Heart Transplantation

Possibility of avoiding heart transplantation in children with acute myocarditis Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, USA have come up with the interesting finding that OKT3 administered in combination with other ...

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Liver Transplantation

Tuberculosis - One of the causes of PUO after Liver Transplant in children A report in the July 2000 issues of the paediatric infectious disease journal has described 6 causes of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection that occurred among 256 ...

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