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Kidney Transplant Waitlist: Weak Patients Have Lesser Chances of Being Listed

Kidney Transplant Waitlist: Weak Patients Have Lesser Chances of Being Listed

Frailty or weakness can lower a patient’s chances of receiving a kidney transplant and of even being placed in the kidney transplant waitlist. The findings of this study are going to be disc...

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Are Transplant-able Kidneys in United States Going to a Waste?

Are Transplant-able Kidneys in United States Going to a Waste?

By comparing transplant practices in two countries - the US and France, it was found that many transplanted French kidneys would have had a high probability of discard in the US system, find...

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Certain Defects Could Prove Risky for Prospective Kidney Transplant Patients

Certain Defects Could Prove Risky for Prospective Kidney Transplant Patients

Bad kidney transplant outcomes such as organ rejections and early deaths have been found to be associated with people those who have had a visual or walking disability before the transplant....

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Organs of a Brain-dead Donor Give New Lease of Life to Six Persons

Organs of a Brain-dead Donor Give New Lease of Life to Six Persons

Organs of a young male donor who had been declared brain dead have been retrieved by a private hospital and were donated to six persons on Friday. The donor, who was injured in a road ...

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Liver Transplants: Survival Rates of Older Individuals Sees Improvement

Liver Transplants: Survival Rates of Older Individuals Sees Improvement

Survival rates of Older Individuals after Liver transplant have improved, finds a new study. A one-year acute rejection rate was found to be 30 percent lower in the older individuals of the ...

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Gut Bacteria Linked to Heart Transplant Success or Failure

Gut Bacteria Linked to Heart Transplant Success or Failure

A gut microbiome was found to play an important role in how well the body accepts a transplanted heart. The study was conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researche...

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Doctors Successfully Perform Kolkata's Second Heart Transplant on a 51-Year-Old Man

Doctors Successfully Perform Kolkata's Second Heart Transplant on a 51-Year-Old Man

Doctors at a private hospital successfully conduct city's second heart transplant and save a 51-year-old man from Kolkata. The heart, donated by a brain-dead accident victim from Andhr...

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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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