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Scientists Reverse Type 1 Diabetes By Reprogramming Patient's Fat Cells
The patient had been suffering from hard-to-control diabetes despite intensive insulin treatment and had received pancreas transplantation in 2017.
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Cells From Man's Pancreas Implanted In His Liver
In a path-breaking medical case, insulin-making beta cells were successfully removed from the pancreas of a 19-year-old motorbike accident victim and transplanted to his liver by doctors in Italy, saving the man from the risk of becoming diabetic.
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10 Myths About Organ Donation
Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...
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10 Myths About Organ Donation
Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...
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Hospital Carries Out Combined Pancreas, Kidney Transplant In Hyderabad
The state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad claimed that it has carried out a complex transplantation surgery involving pancreas and kidney on a young diabetic patient with kidney failure.
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Pig Pancreas Transplant May Help Cure Diabetes
Chinese researchers have successfully used pig's pancreas in transplant operations to treat three type-1 diabetic patients, a significant achievement in finding a cure to the chronic disease, a media report said today.
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Kochi Doctors Perform Kerala's First Pancreas Transplant
A hospital in Kochi has successfully conducted Kerala's first combined pancreas-kidney transplant, the third such in India.
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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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Nine-year-old US girl undergoes six-organ transplant
The surgery performed on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.
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Kidney plus pancreas transplant best for diabetics
People with type 1 diabetes who need a kidney transplant fare better over the long term when they receive a pancreas transplant at the same time.
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Pancreas transplant for diabetes
People with type 1 diabetes often develop kidney failure and a combined kidney and pancreas transplant offers the prospect of curing both problems.
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Organ Donation
The concept of organ donation has not caught on well in India for want of public education and awareness. Thousands of lives are lost in India annually since transplantation of unpaired organs like heart, liver and pancreas is either difficult or impossible from living donors. This is only possible on a large scale if these organs are available fro...
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Scientists Reverse Type 1 Diabetes By Reprogramming Patient's Fat Cells
The patient had been suffering from hard-to-control diabetes despite intensive insulin treatment and had received pancreas transplantation in 2017.
-
Cells From Man's Pancreas Implanted In His Liver
In a path-breaking medical case, insulin-making beta cells were successfully removed from the pancreas of a 19-year-old motorbike accident victim and transplanted to his liver by doctors in Italy, saving the man from the risk of becoming diabetic.
-
10 Myths About Organ Donation
Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...
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10 Myths About Organ Donation
Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...
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Hospital Carries Out Combined Pancreas, Kidney Transplant In Hyderabad
The state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad claimed that it has carried out a complex transplantation surgery involving pancreas and kidney on a young diabetic patient with kidney failure.
-
Pig Pancreas Transplant May Help Cure Diabetes
Chinese researchers have successfully used pig's pancreas in transplant operations to treat three type-1 diabetic patients, a significant achievement in finding a cure to the chronic disease, a media report said today.
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Kochi Doctors Perform Kerala's First Pancreas Transplant
A hospital in Kochi has successfully conducted Kerala's first combined pancreas-kidney transplant, the third such in India.
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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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Nine-year-old US girl undergoes six-organ transplant
The surgery performed on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.
-
Kidney plus pancreas transplant best for diabetics
People with type 1 diabetes who need a kidney transplant fare better over the long term when they receive a pancreas transplant at the same time.
-
Pancreas transplant for diabetes
People with type 1 diabetes often develop kidney failure and a combined kidney and pancreas transplant offers the prospect of curing both problems.
-
Organ Donation
The concept of organ donation has not caught on well in India for want of public education and awareness. Thousands of lives are lost in India annually since transplantation of unpaired organs like heart, liver and pancreas is either difficult or impossible from living donors. This is only possible on a large scale if these organs are available fro...
