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Dead hearts revived for transplant with new medical technology
Alphr The main reason for this is that donor hearts can only be taken from living subjects – patients who have suffered brain-death have their organs removed while they’re still functioning, allowing for a safe transplant. In short, there aren’t that many … New Device Pumps Life Into ‘Dead‘ HeartsNewser |
Deccan ChronicleDr Harsh Vardhan dedicates CoE in organ transplantation at Amrita Institute of …Financial ExpressTransplantation of organs include tissue like bone marrow, solid organs like liver, heart, kidney, lung, small intestine, pancreas and co…
Dr. Harsh Vardhan Dedicates to the Nation, the Centre of Excellence in Organ …Business StandardThe organs can be donated by live donors for certain organs or procured from brain dead deceased donors. Such services are backed by a team of specialist d…
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A racial gap in kidney transplants closes but work remains
Gazettextra The trend among blacks was “driven wholly by increased rates of transplants from deceased donors,” the study authors said. About 80 percent of operations in blacks in 2011 were cadaver organs, which tend to fare worse than those from living donors. |
I am in dna of India |
Organs of brain dead person save three lives in Gurgaon
I am in dna of India Medanta’s Chief Liver Surgeon Dr. A.S. Soin, who led the transplant team, said, “After we found a deceased donor kidney matching with Agraj, we decided to perform a unique combination of live donor liver and deceased donor kidney transplants on him. |
4-year-old boy who underwent intestine transplant in July diesPittsburgh Post-GazetteNationwide, organs from deceased donors were directed to specific recipients in at least 612 instances, 98 of them involving livers, from 2008 to 2012. But those figur…
South China Morning Post (subscription) |
‘Please give him another chance’ – wife pleads for heart donation to save …
South China Morning Post (subscription) Doctors cut open Lee’s abdomen but called off the operation when it emerged that the dead donor had cancer. Only about 2 per cent of Hongkongers, or 170,000 people, are registered donors on the Department of Health’s list, while more than 2,000 … |
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This Box Can Bring Dead Hearts Back To Life
Smithsonian However, the technology is raising ethical questions among some doctors regarding declaring a patient dead. Designed by the Massachusetts-based company called Transmedics, the technology is designed to keep hearts working after the donor’s death by … |
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Kidney recipients, donors want info about each other’s health
Reuters “Information about the donor may be of significant interest to the recipient to decide whether to accept the organ,” she and her colleagues explain in the study. “Likewise, a potential donor may want information about an intended recipient to decide … |
South China Morning Post (subscription)Take it from me: Hong Kong housewife who gave two-thirds of her liver to …South China Morning Post (subscription)But doctors warned that one in 200 donors die from such donations, stressing that an organ receive…