Recycled heart devices offer new life in poor nation, study finds - Vitals
Recycled heart devices offer new life in poor nation, study finds - Vitals: r at least eight years, a Philadelphia heart specialist and his colleagues have been smuggling used cardiac devices in...
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Determining Suitability of Kidney Donors
The Waiting List: How long you’ll have to wait depends on many things but is primarily determined by the degree of matching between you and the donor. Some people wait several years for a good match,...
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Organ Transplant Waiting Lists : infographic
Kidneys Lead Organ Donation Most in Demand
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Fortis Cardiac Surgeons Successfully Perform India’s First ‘HEARTMATE II...
Fortis Malar Hospital successfully implanted India’s first HeartMate II LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) on a 58 year old gentleman suffering from combined renal and heart failure conditions.The...
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Organ Transplants History and Timeline :
Join the NHS Organ Donation Register1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm [Czech Republic]1954: First successful kidney transplant by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray (Boston,...
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UK Organ Donation Statistics: Infographic
Join the NHS Organ Donation RegisterAccording to Organ Donation UK,In the UK between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012:3,960 organ transplants were carried out, thanks to the generosity of 2,143...
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Organ Donation among Black and minority ethnic communities
Join the NHS Organ Donation RegisterNHSBT - Organ Donation - Black and minority ethnic communities: Black and minority ethnic communitiesPeople from South Asian, African and Afro-Caribbean communities...
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Organ Donation and Sex : Why Women are more generous organ donors,
Join the NHS Organ Donation RegisterTwo Indian women donated organs of their brain-dead husbands over the weekend, helping 11 seriously ill patients. Both donations were within a few hours of each...
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The Waiting List for Transplants in US
Source: patientadvocate.files.wordpress.com via Sumit on PinterestIn the United States, more than 84,000 men, women and children are waiting for organ transplants. Their struggle to live depends on a...
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First-ever liver transplant from live donor in region | Dr Subba Rao’s press...
Fortis Hospital Mohali successfully registered the region’s first-ever live donor liver transplant, with a woman donating a portion of the organ to her husband, a businessman from Gurdaspur....
View ArticleCricketers pad up for organ donation
ROBYN Hookes understands the topic of organ donation is difficult for families to approach, but hopes a cricket match in Bendigo on Sunday will help to raise awareness of its importance.Eaglehawk’s...
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Congenital Heart Diseases
Every 15 Minutes: Facts on Congenital Heart Disease - An infographic from Children's National Medical Center
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Kolkata is the Hub of illegal Kidney Trade to East Asia
The Great Kidney Bazaar: "West Bengal has become a hub of trade in human kidneys — so much so that kidney transplant patients from other parts of India and even abroad are flocking to Calcutta in...
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The Success of Transplants Story in in Tamil Nadu
Transplants in India : 1980 to 2013Transplants in Tamil Nadu :1980 to 2012 What has Tamil Nadu done in Healthcare, which no one state in India has been able to do as yet ?The answer is Cadaver...
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8 Organs which You Can Donate
Mahesh Kumar, a private company employee residing at Purasaiwalkam,from Chennai was eagerly waiting to meet his sister Sangeetha and her children at dinner on July 27. a few hours later, he was...
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60,000 lives lost in a year due to Liver Failure :
According to government of India records, about 60,000 people die in India due to liver failure every year. According to at Medanta Medicity Gurgaon Liver Transplant Department it treats about 280...
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5 Organs that can be Transplanted
1. Heart For those suffering heart failure from a disease or virus, a donated heart makes the difference between living or dying. 2. Lungs Donated lungs are transplanted into people suffering from...
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