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Transplanting Hepatitis C-infected Donor Kidneys Could Cut Time on Dialysis

Transplanting Hepatitis C-infected Donor Kidneys Could Cut Time on Dialysis

The new model predicts that transplantation with an HCV-infected kidney followed by HCV treatment was more effective and less costly than treating HCV before transplantation, largely because...

Kidney Donation is Safe for Older Adults – Here’s Why

Kidney Donation is Safe for Older Adults – Here’s Why

Kidney donations among adults over 60 years of age do not pose any operation-related risk and add no risk of long-term kidney failure, a recent research at the University of Minnesota finds....

Face Transplantation: Best Option for Patients with Severe Facial Trauma

Face Transplantation: Best Option for Patients with Severe Facial Trauma

A special update on ‘Facial Transplantation Today’ highlights the benefits of opting for facial transplantation among patients with severe facial disfigurement following traumatic injuries t...

More Patients With Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Receiving Liver Transplants: Study

More Patients With Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Receiving Liver Transplants: Study

A new report finds liver transplant centers are changing a long-standing practice of delaying potentially life-saving liver transplantation for patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis until...

New Insights to Early Lung Transplant Failure Uncovered

New Insights to Early Lung Transplant Failure Uncovered

Patients who receive new lungs face a higher rate of organ failure and death, as compared to those who undergo heart, kidney and liver transplants. One of the reseasons behind such failure i...

Eastern India: First Human-To-Human Heart Transplant Performed

Eastern India: First Human-To-Human Heart Transplant Performed

The heart of a 21-year-old man who died in Bengaluru a day back was transplanted on a 39-year-old patient from Jharkhand. "This operation is being performed for the first time in the e...

Opioid Epidemic Boosts Number of Organs Available for Transplant

Opioid Epidemic Boosts Number of Organs Available for Transplant

Organs from drug-overdose deaths are suitable for transplantation, research shows. More than 10-fold increase in the proportion of donors who died from drug intoxication between the years 2...

Inclusion of Organ Donor Option in Driving Licence Application Form Welcomed

Inclusion of Organ Donor Option in Driving Licence Application Form Welcomed

A social group has welcomed the government’s move to include a column in the driving licence form for applicants to pledge his/her organs for donation, which can help in easy process, create...

World’s First Total Penis and Scrotum Transplant by Johns Hopkins Surgery Team

World’s First Total Penis and Scrotum Transplant by Johns Hopkins Surgery Team

A successful total penis and scrotum transplant, the first of its kind in the world, was performed by a Johns Hopkins’ reconstructive surgery team. The team that performed the first bilatera...

Transplanted Livers can Help Lower Risk of Organ Rejection

Transplanted Livers can Help Lower Risk of Organ Rejection

Transplanted livers play an active role in regulating the host's immune system, and also helps lower the risk of organ rejection, reveals a new study published in Kidney International. ...

Cancer Patients Waiting for a Liver Transplant in the US, Less Likely to Get One

Cancer Patients Waiting for a Liver Transplant in the US, Less Likely to Get One

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on the liver transplant list in the USA were more than 50% less likely to receive a transplant in 2014-2016 than they were in 2005-2007, accordin...

Goa Health Ministry Ordered Probe After The State's First Organ Transplant Via Green Corridor

Goa Health Ministry Ordered Probe After The State's First Organ Transplant Via Green Corridor

A probe by the Goan Health Ministry was ordered after the state's first organ harvesting and transplantation. The sixty year old Goan donor's kidneys and liver were transported to Mumbai and...

Heart Transplant Gives 56-year-old a New Lease of Life

Heart Transplant Gives 56-year-old a New Lease of Life

A heart transplant conducted within three hours of harvesting the heart from a donor in Jaipur helped a 56-year-old patient get a new lease of life. "The patient is recovering well aft...

Trained Navigators Help Increase Transplant Waitlist for Kidney Failure Patients

Trained Navigators Help Increase Transplant Waitlist for Kidney Failure Patients

Disadvantaged patients with kidney failure who received guidance from a trained navigator with a degree in social work were more likely to be eventually put on the transplant waiting list th...

Most Kidney Donors are Women - Donations Declined Among Men

Most Kidney Donors are Women - Donations Declined Among Men

Between 2005 and 2015, the unadjusted rate of living kidney donation in the United States was 30.1 and 19.3 per million populations in women and men, respectively. After adjusting for...

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