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Indian project aims to overcome shortage of donor organs
India's Department of Biotechnology has decided to give a big push for research in "tissue engineering."
There are a number of people in the world who suffer from chronic or acute conditions that lead to the failure of an organ. Organ failure can occur due to trauma (severe injury to the organ), certain infections, some chronic conditions like diabetes and abuse of addictive substances like alcohol. A person will require an organ transplant in cases where organ that has failed is to be 'replaced'. This replacement can only happen when the patient gets an organ from another person -- who is known as the donor. This donor may be someone who has recently died or someone who is living and wishes to donate his/her organ.
In the case of a dead donor (also known as a cadaver donor) a doctor can harvest organs like the heart, lungs, skin, eyes, intestines, liver, pancreas etc. But in the case of a living donor he/she can donate organs like the kidney and liver and even stem cells.
The process of organ donation is quite complex and needs a large amount of tests before the donation actually occurs. Apart from the tests there are a number of laws governing the transplantation and donation of organs -- mainly done to curb the rising trend of the organ black market. Wondering about the rules that govern an organ donation? Read all about it here.
In India the organ donation scenario is very dismal as a number of people shy away from pledging their organs either due to fear or because of all the myths that surround the practice. The fact of the matter still remains that organ donation can help save someone's life after a person's death. Why allow perfectly good organs to go to waste when they can be the reason for someone else's life? Want to know more about how to pledge your organs? Here are all the answers you might need.
India's Department of Biotechnology has decided to give a big push for research in "tissue engineering."
There is an urgent need to create awareness about hand transplants in India.
Dr.Ramakanta Panda, Padma Bhushan and worlds' leading cardiac surgeon offered 15 heavily subsidised heart transplants, to commemorate the occasion.
Here are few things you need to know about kidney transplant in kids.
Koroth Gopalan (age 78) was caught in small accident while morning walks in Vasai.
The woman was suffering from chemotherapy induced Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Read to know how one can undergo a lung transplant.
Dr (Prof) R N Makroo clears the doubt.
"I encourage everyone in the world to spread such message and to donate organs to the one they love"
The heart transplant was done on 2nd December, 2016 and the patient recovered well and he has been discharged.
The patient has been on waitlist for over two months as he suffered from Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
A two-month-old baby weighing 2.1-kg has successfully undergone a liver transplant.
Some 272 donors of 675 organs transplanted over the past five years had all suffered from cancer or malignancy.
Let's pledge to donate organs and save lives, this organ donation day.
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.
Bolstering efforts to carry out cadaver organ transplants in West Bengal, a team of doctors at a private hospital here on Tuesday night performed what is possibly eastern India's first such liver transplant in the city, the hospital said in a statement.
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute was yet again presented a challenge with 62 year-old Mutwakil Muhamed Ahmed Abunayeb suffering from medical conditions leading to deterioration in the functioning of his heart.
Using the eye wearable device Google Glass, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Massachusetts, US, have collected promising results as part of technology known as 'organs-on-chips'.
India's Department of Biotechnology has decided to give a big push for research in "tissue engineering."
There is an urgent need to create awareness about hand transplants in India.
Dr.Ramakanta Panda, Padma Bhushan and worlds' leading cardiac surgeon offered 15 heavily subsidised heart transplants, to commemorate the occasion.
Here are few things you need to know about kidney transplant in kids.
Koroth Gopalan (age 78) was caught in small accident while morning walks in Vasai.
The woman was suffering from chemotherapy induced Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Read to know how one can undergo a lung transplant.
Dr (Prof) R N Makroo clears the doubt.
"I encourage everyone in the world to spread such message and to donate organs to the one they love"
The heart transplant was done on 2nd December, 2016 and the patient recovered well and he has been discharged.
The patient has been on waitlist for over two months as he suffered from Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
A two-month-old baby weighing 2.1-kg has successfully undergone a liver transplant.
Some 272 donors of 675 organs transplanted over the past five years had all suffered from cancer or malignancy.
Let's pledge to donate organs and save lives, this organ donation day.
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.
Bolstering efforts to carry out cadaver organ transplants in West Bengal, a team of doctors at a private hospital here on Tuesday night performed what is possibly eastern India's first such liver transplant in the city, the hospital said in a statement.
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute was yet again presented a challenge with 62 year-old Mutwakil Muhamed Ahmed Abunayeb suffering from medical conditions leading to deterioration in the functioning of his heart.
Using the eye wearable device Google Glass, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Massachusetts, US, have collected promising results as part of technology known as 'organs-on-chips'.
