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New Insights into Children Awaiting Liver Transplants

New Insights into Children Awaiting Liver Transplants

U.S. liver allocation system disadvantages children awaiting transplants. Children are at a considerable disadvantage when competing with adults for livers from deceased organ donors in the ...

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Over 300,000 People Suffer from Kidney Diseases: Expert

Over 300,000 People Suffer from Kidney Diseases: Expert

Over 300,000 people are suffering from end-stage kidney diseases and despite that just few transplantations are taking place, says renal transplant physician and nephrologist Raka Kasuhal. ...

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Organs of Brain-Dead Person Saves Three Lives

Organs of Brain-Dead Person Saves Three Lives

Organs of a 58-year-old brain-dead person were donated to three patients in two separate hospitals in the city, stated hospital authorities. The patient, a resident of central Kolkata's...

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Brain Dead Teenager's Organ from Bengal Save Three Lives

Brain Dead Teenager's Organ from Bengal Save Three Lives

Organs of Mallika Majumdar, a 15-year-old teenage girl who was declared brain dead at a city hospital were donated to three other critically ill patients, stated the hospital authority. ...

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Somnath Chatterjee's Body to be Donated to Kolkata Hospital

Somnath Chatterjee's Body to be Donated to Kolkata Hospital

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who passed away on Monday due to multiple organ failure will be accorded a gun salute at the West Bengal Assembly. After which, his body will be d...

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Kidney Transplant Chains More Successful in Saving Lives

Kidney Transplant Chains More Successful in Saving Lives

Transplant societies which put kidney transplant chains first and kidney exchanges next, can increase the total number of transplants, thereby saving more lives finds new research from the U...

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Normothermic Machine Perfusion For Liver Transplant - A New Technology Available in India

Normothermic Machine Perfusion For Liver Transplant - A New Technology Available in India

This break-through procedure called Normothermic Machine Perfusion for Liver transplant aims to improve liver transplant success rates across India. Addresses the key challenge of org...

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Indian Doctors Give 51-Year-Old Captive Iraqi a New Heart

Indian Doctors Give 51-Year-Old Captive Iraqi a New Heart

A 51-year-old Iraqi captive gets a new lease of life from Indian doctors; he was given an artificial heart in India. The patient had suffered several bullet injuries at the hands of terroris...

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Which Mechanisms Come into Place After a Kidney is Transplanted into a Patient?

Which Mechanisms Come into Place After a Kidney is Transplanted into a Patient?

Blood samples taken from kidneys recipients can help us understand how the repair and regeneration of the transplanted organs occur, finds a new study. The findings of this study are publish...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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