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US killer wants organs donated
Zee News Columbus: A child killer scheduled for execution this week has asked that his organs be donated to his ailing mother and sister. Death row inmate Ronald Phillips’ lawyers say in a letter to the Ohio prisons agency that Phillips would also be willing to … |
Livers from donors with pre-hospital cardiac arrest considered for transplant – News-Medical.net
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Livers from donors with pre-hospital cardiac arrest considered for transplant
News-Medical.net “A primary concern in using organs from donors who suffered a heart attack is the extra donor warm ischemia time-how long it takes to retrieve an organ from donors with non-beating hearts until blood supply ceases to circulate through the tissues (cold … |
20% lung cancer caused by air pollution – Times of India
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20% lung cancer caused by air pollution
Times of India “Rising pollution is related to rising incidence of lung cancer. After Delhi, Hyderabad has reached a stage, where harmful substances in the air are recorded much above normal levels at most of the junctions,” said Dr P N S Reddy, a top pulmonologist … Smoke, smoke everywhere, not a puff to breatheAsian Tribune |
Britons being sold illegal kidneys for surgery in Sri Lanka – Telegraph.co.uk
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Britons being sold illegal kidneys for surgery in Sri Lanka
Telegraph.co.uk A journalist working for the Times newspaper posed as a relative of a Briton seeking a kidney transplant and claims to have been offered an organ originating either from India or the UK. The agreement took place at a meeting with organ “facilitator … |
Bariatric Surgery Risk Increases With Kidney Disease – Medscape
Bariatric Surgery Risk Increases With Kidney DiseaseMedscapeMacLaughlin said that one important reason for having bariatric surgery is to help severely obese patients to achieve a weight that allows them to qualify for kidney transplantation. Dr. Kayse…
Madurai lags behind in cadaver organ transplant – Times of India
Madurai lags behind in cadaver organ transplantTimes of IndiaMADURAI: While hundreds of patients seek organs, very few cadaver organ transplants are done in Madurai. Chennai city is way ahead of other places in the state, especially in terms of the num…
Authorities investigate death of British man who collapsed after opening … – UPI.com (blog)
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Authorities investigate death of British man who collapsed after opening …
UPI.com (blog) “His heart stopping caused the death of his brain which caused multiple organ failure,” said coroner Robert Chapman. “We don’t really know what caused his heart to stop. There is a possibility that he had a fatal cardiac arrhythmia — a change in his … Mystery surrounds man’s ‘Pandora’s box’ deathNEWS.com.au |
Combination angiotensin inhibition increased hyperkalemia, acute kidney injury … – Healio
Combination angiotensin inhibition increased hyperkalemia, acute kidney injury …HealioCombination therapy with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and an angiotensin-receptor blocker was tied to an increased risk for hyperkalemia and acute kid…
Devices have changed heart transplants – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Devices have changed heart transplants
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel … and is becoming a problem of engineering, miniaturization and, believe it or not, batteries,” says cardiologist Michael Hess , who directs the Pauley Heart Center’s heart transplantation program — one of the world’s oldest — at the Medical … |
Breakthrough may lead to new treatment for heart attack – Times of India
Times of IndiaBreakthrough may lead to new treatment for heart attackTimes of India… reduce damage from heart attack and protect the organ from further injury. The stop and start of blood flow to the heart during and after a heart attack causes sever…