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Girls raise £313 for sick kids’ charity
The Paisley Daily Express … problems passing into the bloodstream via the lungs, and there are variable degrees of lung scarring. Generally, some children may grow out of their condition, others will need lung transplantation and, sadly, others do die. To make a donation to … |
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9-Year-Old Robert ‘Boo’ Maddox Spends 500 Days In Hospital For Swine Flu …
Medical Daily A medical breakthrough soon dispelled that assumption, when transplant surgeon and Mayo’s surgical director of kidney transplantation, Dr. Mikel Prieto, announced the good news. “I know what’s wrong with your boy,” Maddox remembers Prieto saying, “and … |
BBC NewsQ&A: The ethics of an opt-out organ donation systemBBC News… Medicine, Ethics, Society and History (MESH) at the University of Birmingham. His main interest is transplantation ethics, and he is currently working on a project funded by QE …
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Awareness on organ donation very low
Deccan Chronicle He was moved from Kasturba Hospital in Manipal to the city based BGS Global Hospital when his condition started deteriorating. “The doctor at BGS Hospital told me about the condition of my liver and the only way out for my survival was liver … Solid Organ Transplant: What Vaccines Do Kids Need?Medscape |
Medical XpressNot only bone density, but also quality of bone predicts fracture riskMedical XpressThe results also suggest that in children who have undergone kidney, liver or heart transplantation, the various changes related to bone microarchitecture…
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Study: Nearly 60 Percent of Americans Will Develop Kidney Disease
Washington Informer Finally, end–stage kidney disease requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation, has a lifetime risk of 3.6 percent which is dramatically higher among African–Americans at 8 percent. African Americans had a greater risk of developing more advanced … |
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Post-heart transplant at PGI, caution and celebration — of life
Indian Express On Sunday, a heart transplantation surgery gave a brain-dead Hoshiarpur man’s heart to a Ambala resident (name withheld). He is currently recuperating in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at PGI. The first-ever heart transplant surgery was conducted by a … |
Lack awareness a major hurdle in organ transplantsBusiness StandardAccording to Neelam Mohan, director, department of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation, Medanta-The Medicity Hospital, maintaining a donor after s/he is bra…
Solid Organ Transplant: What Vaccines Do Kids Need?MedscapeIn some solid organ transplants, for example in liver transplantation, immune suppression may be weaned enough that live virus immunizations can be given after transplantation. This can only be…
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Iraqi man saves his 7-month-old son by partial liver donation
Business Standard That is why we went for live transplant,” Dr Vivek Vij, director of liver transplantation, Fortis hospital. “An adult man’s liver usually has eight segments. We have used two segments of Hunar’s liver which is almost 20 per cent of the entire liver for … |