Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage toggle caption Jessica Tezak for NPR It’s late on a Friday afternoon at the Nashville International Airport when Dr. Marty Sellers hops out of a van and strides towards a small private jet idling on the runway. "We’re doing an NRP recovery," says Sellers, referring to normothermic regional perfusion, …
The Union Government has set a timeline of six to eight weeks for health authorities in the States/Union Territories to decide on applications seeking living donor organ transplantation. The decision follows a Delhi High Court order in January, which directed the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to prescribe timelines for steps in the process of considering an application pertaining …
CNN — Marzena Stasieluk needed a new kidney. It wasn’t so bad that she would be prioritized for a liver from a deceased donor, her family said, but bad enough that a kidney transplant likely wouldn’t work. “So, they kind of, like, threw their hands up and were just, kind of, like, ‘sorry.’ ” In January 2020, an appointment with …
As Parvati Parihar winds up her household chores, she steps out of her shanty to rest on a charpai, where the youngest of her four daughters is lying half asleep. Eight years later, my younger brother sold his kidney as we needed the money and then my wife, too, did the same two years ago," Ramkumar said. Dr Anup Kumar, …
The Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow has successfully performed its first ABO incompatible kidney transplant, becoming the second medical education institute in the state capital, after SGPGIMS, to perform such a procedure. Prof Abhilash Chandra of the nephrology department said that the kidney transplant of a 26-year-old youth from Lakhimpur Kheri, who had B positive blood …
It is 50 years since a team of doctors of the Christian Medical College, Vellore, performed the country’s first successful kidney transplant on February 2, 1971. On returning to Vellore in 1970, they started to plan the first kidney transplant at the CMC. Without two operating theatres — one for the donor and the other for the recipient — Dr. …
