There are two different types of organ donation – living organ donation and cadaver donations. Organs from patients who are brain dead are called cadaver donations. Organs which can be harvested include – heart, eye, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc. Brain death usually occurs six to ten minutes after cardiac arrest and the person can be kept on ventilator support (so all other bodily functions are running) till the organs can be retrieved.
The woman was suffering from chemotherapy induced Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
City-based BLK Super Specialty Hospital on Friday urged the Centre to strengthen provisions to encourage organ donations in the country.
A mother narrates a heart-wrenching story of how her liver helped her son survive and get back to normal life in a couple of months.
"I encourage everyone in the world to spread such message and to donate organs to the one they love"
This is the first time in the world that a dual live-donor liver and kidney transplant surgery has been performed in such a small child.
Amitabh Bachchan, Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and other celebrities who have pledged to donate their organs.
ORGAN India, organised a Collaborative Conclave for Organ Donation with NOTTO. Dr Padma Shri (Prof.) Jagdish Prasad, DGHS will inaugurate the event as the Chief Guest.
Data from the Health Ministry has revealed that 51,354 eyes were donated in 2013-14, of which only 22,384 were used for eye transplants.
Some 272 donors of 675 organs transplanted over the past five years had all suffered from cancer or malignancy.
A city court on Saturday sent five doctors including the CEO of L.H. Hirandanani Hospital to judicial custody till August 26 in the illegal kidney sale and transplant racket
Every year 200,000 people in India need a new kidney and 100,000 need a new liver, but only two to three per cent of the demand for new organs is met.
Let's pledge to donate organs and save lives, this organ donation day.
Want to pledge your organs but don't know how to go about it? Read this.
The nationwide campaign is aimed at sensitizing people on the concept of organ donation as well as encouraging them to pledge their organs in an effort to save precious lives and positively impact the well-being of the nation.
With less than one per cent organ donation rate in India, there is a strong need of creating more awareness among people about the initiative, said health experts.
Researchers have identified a panel of genes which can help predict whether a transplanted kidney will later develop fibrosis.
Fortis Healthcare Limited successfully transported a donor's heart in the early hours of Saturday morning, at 6.30 a.m. from Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, Vasant Kunj in South Delhi reaching Medanta, the Medicity in 12 minutes.
'Donating organs is a gift of life and is an altruistic, egalitarian and essentially moral act, says J P Nadda.
Here's how a 32-year-old brain dead patient gave a new lease of life to five different patients.
China's health, police and transportation authorities have jointly established a 'green passage' to ensure fast and safe transfer of donated human organs.
Find out more about live organ donation and this rare liver transplant which was the first in the country,
Despite this being the 13th heart transplant conducted in Mumbai, doctors say awareness about organ donations is the need of the hour.
According to the hospital, an estimated 500,000 people await organ donation in India, but only 5 percent of them receive a second lease of life.
An 80-member joint family living in Agashe village near Virar in Maharashtra has suddenly come into prominence after all of them voluntarily pledged to donate their bodies or organs and tissues.
Every year 200,000 people in India need a new kidney and 100,000 need a new liver, but only two to three per cent of the demand for new organs is met.
Let's pledge to donate organs and save lives, this organ donation day.
Want to pledge your organs but don't know how to go about it? Read this.
The nationwide campaign is aimed at sensitizing people on the concept of organ donation as well as encouraging them to pledge their organs in an effort to save precious lives and positively impact the well-being of the nation.
With less than one per cent organ donation rate in India, there is a strong need of creating more awareness among people about the initiative, said health experts.
Researchers have identified a panel of genes which can help predict whether a transplanted kidney will later develop fibrosis.
Fortis Healthcare Limited successfully transported a donor's heart in the early hours of Saturday morning, at 6.30 a.m. from Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, Vasant Kunj in South Delhi reaching Medanta, the Medicity in 12 minutes.
'Donating organs is a gift of life and is an altruistic, egalitarian and essentially moral act, says J P Nadda.
Here's how a 32-year-old brain dead patient gave a new lease of life to five different patients.
China's health, police and transportation authorities have jointly established a 'green passage' to ensure fast and safe transfer of donated human organs.
Find out more about live organ donation and this rare liver transplant which was the first in the country,
Despite this being the 13th heart transplant conducted in Mumbai, doctors say awareness about organ donations is the need of the hour.
According to the hospital, an estimated 500,000 people await organ donation in India, but only 5 percent of them receive a second lease of life.
An 80-member joint family living in Agashe village near Virar in Maharashtra has suddenly come into prominence after all of them voluntarily pledged to donate their bodies or organs and tissues.
A 52-year-old brain dead patient's family agreed to donate his organs following which his heart was flown to Mumbai. A 42-year-old patient then underwent a successful heart transplant.
The donor's two kidneys successfully saved lives of two patients respectively at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, the two corneas were sent to AIIMS and the liver was transported to The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) for transplantation.
In a first, an Indore donor's heart reaches a Mumbai teen via 'green corridors', giving her a new lease of life
Ice-free cryopreservation has been used for preserving semen, blood, embryos, plant seeds and some other biological applications but will now be used to preserve organs too.
The government is trying to increase the number of voluntary organ donations in the country
PM highlights the necessity of organ donation in the country
Doctors join two livers to save an obese man's life
Unique organ donation -- liver from live donor, kidney from deceased donor saves a man's life
Delhi govt. chalks new guidelines on cadaver donation
Brain dead man saves three precious lives
