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Fifth US Hand Transplant Patient Heads Home to NY
Centre Daily Times, PA A hand transplant, unlike a solid organ transplant, involves multiple tissues (skin, muscle, tendon, bone, cartilage, fat, nerves and blood vessels) and is called composite tissue allotransplantation. A partnership of physicians and researchers at … Hand transplant patient due home in Massena Newswatch 50 Fifth US hand transplant patient heads home Bizjournals.com all 12 news articles |
1 more held in kidney racket case – Times of India
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1 more held in kidney racket case
Times of India, India KOLKATA: The detective department has made one more arrest in the kidney selling racket. Mridula Bhattacharya was arrested from 15 Garfa 3rd Lane on Monday night. She is related to Chandana Mukherjee, one of the accused in the case. … |
First successful liver transplant in state – Times of India
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First successful liver transplant in state
Times of India, India Also, since cadaver donation in other centres is less, many patients die waiting for the organ that matches their blood type. "Gujarat may be a dry state but alcohol abuse is rampant so is Hepatitis B and C, which spread in the same way as HIV, … |
Gujarat model state for cadaver donation' – Times of India
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Gujarat model state for cadaver donation'
Times of India, India "In India, Gujarat does maximum cadaver donation transplant where relatives of brain-dead people agree that their organs be harvested and given to other people. In our centre, 15 per cent of our transplants are from cadaver donated organs as compared … |
Two more arrested in kidney racket – Indopia
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Two more arrested in kidney racket
Indopia, India Kolkata , Feb 11 Two more persons have been arrested for alleged involvement in an inter-state kidney racket, taking the total number of arrests to eight. "We have proof that the two were close to Partho Mondal, the kingpin who is a resident of Delhi … |
Health dept seeks report on kidney racket – Times of India
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Health dept seeks report on kidney racket
Times of India, India KOLKATA: The state health department has asked the detective department to submit a report on the inter-state kidney selling racket busted recently in the city. Though six people have been arrested in connection with the racket so far, the kingpin is … |
Surgeons Find New Way to Remove Donor's Health Kidney – Johns Hopkins Gazette
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Surgeons Find New Way to Remove Donor's Health Kidney
Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD "Since the first laparoscopic donor nephrectomy was performed at Johns Hopkins in 1995, surgeons have been troubled by the need to make a relatively large incision in the patient's abdomen after completing the nephrectomy to extract the donor kidney. … Surgeons Remove Cancerous Kidney with Single Incision, California … Insciences Organisation all 3 news articles |
WHO Urges Ethical, Safe Practices In Organ Transplantation – eMaxHealth.com
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WHO Urges Ethical, Safe Practices In Organ Transplantation
eMaxHealth.com, NC In India alone, 150 000 patients suffer from end-stage renal disease, while 200 000 patients need liver transplantation and 80 000 require heart transplants. The non-availability of adequate numbers of donors remains a major challenge. … |
Symposium on organ donation ends at PGI – Chandigarh Newsline
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Symposium on organ donation ends at PGI
Chandigarh Newsline, India Chandigarh The two-day symposium on “Promotion of Deceased Organ Donation” concluded at the PGI on Sunday with nearly 200 delegates from all over the country providing their inputs on spreading awareness on cadaver donation. On the concluding day, … |
Face-transplants raise difficult ethical questions – Kansas City Star
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Face-transplants raise difficult ethical questions
Kansas City Star, MO Most innovative surgical procedures fail at first. The first kidney transplant recipients died long, drawn-out deaths. Heart transplantation worked once in the first 100 tries. Liver transplantation was a disaster until new drugs made success possible. … |