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Supreme Court Saves US Boy's Life, Permits Indian Cousin To Donate Liver
The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a three-year-old boy, a US citizen in critical need of liver transplant, by permitting his distant Indian cousin to donate the organ, saying it is not an appropriate case to consider the legal requirement.
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In A 1st For Madhya Pradesh, Brain Dead Woman's Hands Donated For Transplantation
The hands of a brain dead 52-year-old woman in Indore in Madhya Pradesh were donated for transplantation into a Mumbai-based teen girl, which a health official on Monday said was the first case of its kind in the state.
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Why "Hurry To Arrest Highly Qualified Doctors": High Court To Pune Cops
The Pune police on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it will not arrest or take any coercive action against a robotic surgeon and three other doctors of a private hospital who were named in an FIR earlier this year.
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In Transplant Breakthrough, Pig Kidney Attached to Human Successfully
Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.
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Double-Lung Transplants Rise After Covid 'Honeycombs' Organs: Study
Hospitals across the U.S. have reported a rise in lung transplants for severe coronavirus cases, the Cleveland Clinic, one of the country's top-ranked medical centers, said last week.
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Mumbai's 56-Year-Old Heart Transplant Patient Beats Covid In A Week
In heartening news from Mumbai, a 56-year-old heart transplant patient, who had suffered a stroke, multiple organ failure and pneumonia because of COVID-19, has successfully fought off the deadly disease in just one week.
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Bangladeshi Woman Donates Kidney To Son After Both Defeat COVID-19 In Kolkata
Uttam Kumar Ghosh, a Bangladeshi national, got a new lease of life in Kolkata after his mother donated one of her kidneys to him, but his survival story is not just a case of organ transplant, as both had to get the better of COVID-19 before the surgery.
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Toddler Receives Mother's Kidney, Part Of Liver In Pioneering Transplant
Oxalosis can cause urinary infections and permanent kidney damage, and in the most severe cases, can stunt the patient's growth and cause brittle bones that are vulnerable to fractures.
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How A Rare Triple Swap Of Kidneys Came To Rescue Of Three Husbands
In perhaps a first-of-its-kind case in Delhi, a 'triple-swap' of kidneys came to the rescue of three men, who needed kidney transplants, but were found medically incompatible to receive the organ from their wives. Instead, they received the kidneys from each others' wives, in back-to-back transplant surgeries lasting 14 hours at Pushpawati Singhani...
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In A First, Kerala Issues Protocol For Patients To Be Confirmed Brain Dead
The Kerala government has issued protocols to be followed to confirm brain death cases with an aim to make organ transplants more transparent in the state.
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After Top Doctors' Arrests, More Trouble For Mumbai's Hiranandani Hospital
The prestigious Hiranandani hospital in Mumbai has been ordered to stop organ transplants for now. Its licence for such operations has been suspended after five doctors, including the CEO and Medical Director of the hospital, were arrested yesterday in connection with kidney selling scandal.
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Five organ transplant patient gives birth to a baby girl
A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.
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Mohanlal wishes to donate his organs
Superstar Mohanlal expressed his desire to donate his organs, citing the case of a school-girl who recovered from a severe liver disease.
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Supreme Court Saves US Boy's Life, Permits Indian Cousin To Donate Liver
The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a three-year-old boy, a US citizen in critical need of liver transplant, by permitting his distant Indian cousin to donate the organ, saying it is not an appropriate case to consider the legal requirement.
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In A 1st For Madhya Pradesh, Brain Dead Woman's Hands Donated For Transplantation
The hands of a brain dead 52-year-old woman in Indore in Madhya Pradesh were donated for transplantation into a Mumbai-based teen girl, which a health official on Monday said was the first case of its kind in the state.
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Why "Hurry To Arrest Highly Qualified Doctors": High Court To Pune Cops
The Pune police on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it will not arrest or take any coercive action against a robotic surgeon and three other doctors of a private hospital who were named in an FIR earlier this year.
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In Transplant Breakthrough, Pig Kidney Attached to Human Successfully
Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.
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Double-Lung Transplants Rise After Covid 'Honeycombs' Organs: Study
Hospitals across the U.S. have reported a rise in lung transplants for severe coronavirus cases, the Cleveland Clinic, one of the country's top-ranked medical centers, said last week.
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Mumbai's 56-Year-Old Heart Transplant Patient Beats Covid In A Week
In heartening news from Mumbai, a 56-year-old heart transplant patient, who had suffered a stroke, multiple organ failure and pneumonia because of COVID-19, has successfully fought off the deadly disease in just one week.
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Bangladeshi Woman Donates Kidney To Son After Both Defeat COVID-19 In Kolkata
Uttam Kumar Ghosh, a Bangladeshi national, got a new lease of life in Kolkata after his mother donated one of her kidneys to him, but his survival story is not just a case of organ transplant, as both had to get the better of COVID-19 before the surgery.
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Toddler Receives Mother's Kidney, Part Of Liver In Pioneering Transplant
Oxalosis can cause urinary infections and permanent kidney damage, and in the most severe cases, can stunt the patient's growth and cause brittle bones that are vulnerable to fractures.
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How A Rare Triple Swap Of Kidneys Came To Rescue Of Three Husbands
In perhaps a first-of-its-kind case in Delhi, a 'triple-swap' of kidneys came to the rescue of three men, who needed kidney transplants, but were found medically incompatible to receive the organ from their wives. Instead, they received the kidneys from each others' wives, in back-to-back transplant surgeries lasting 14 hours at Pushpawati Singhani...
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In A First, Kerala Issues Protocol For Patients To Be Confirmed Brain Dead
The Kerala government has issued protocols to be followed to confirm brain death cases with an aim to make organ transplants more transparent in the state.
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After Top Doctors' Arrests, More Trouble For Mumbai's Hiranandani Hospital
The prestigious Hiranandani hospital in Mumbai has been ordered to stop organ transplants for now. Its licence for such operations has been suspended after five doctors, including the CEO and Medical Director of the hospital, were arrested yesterday in connection with kidney selling scandal.
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Five organ transplant patient gives birth to a baby girl
A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.
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Mohanlal wishes to donate his organs
Superstar Mohanlal expressed his desire to donate his organs, citing the case of a school-girl who recovered from a severe liver disease.
