cadaveric hand transplant

A mother's love proved stronger than fear when her 17-year-old son Armaan faced acute liver failure. Renu Khanna donated a portion of her liver in a life-saving transplant at Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai. Doctors successfully performed the surgery, and both mother and son are now recovering. This remarkable act highlights the power of maternal sacrifice and medical expertise.

To boost cadaveric organ transplant, the civic-run Sion hospital will conduct a hands-on training programme on Saturday for doctors to ensure better outcomes for such operations.

Around 200 surgeons have signed up to be trained on frozen cadavers from the anatomy department of Sion Hospital. Chennai-based liver transplant surgeon Dr Mohamed Rela will also conduct the programme.

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Taking a leaf out of Tamil Nadu’s health programme , the state government will soon roll out a plan to boost cadaveric organ donation in Maharashtra.

King George’s Medical University is set to revive its Cadaveric Multi Organ Donation (CMOD) programme in a full-fledged manner.

More than 100 experts and personnel from nearly half a dozen departments and institutions made the cadaveric multi-organ donation and subsequent transplants successfully on Saturday.

Annually, around 100 cadaver transplants take place in India which is about .01 per million population.

Organ transplant programme that reached its peak in 2015, with 218 transplants has been on a steady decline in the last two years with just around 30 transplants in 2017.

The Union health and family welfare ministry granted licence to Jawaharlal institute of postgraduate medical education and research (Jipmer) to perform cadaveric tissue transplantation.

Doctors say Organ Transplant Act will first have to be rectified before the face transplant surgery can be performed.

A J Hospital, which has harvested organs from more than six brain-dead persons in the past one year, celebrated World Organ Donation Day-2016, on Saturday.

Less than 20 hand transplants have been performed in India, with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi having started the procedure.

India's cadaver transplant programme achieved a significant milestone in 2023, with over 1,000 deceased donors. It also surpassed other countries in the total number of hand transplants. Manipur, a conflict-torn state, joined the deceased donation programme, conducting two donations. Telangana led in cadaver donations, followed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

When deceased Samar Chakraborty's family donated his organs, not much was required to find a matching recipient. Being O+, Chakraborty was a universal donor and recipients of any blood group could have benefited. Besides his liver--which saved cirrhosis patient Madhuri Saha--his heart could also have saved another person but for the fact that none of the hospitals in the city is licensed to carry out the surgery .

This Monday, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) will undertake its first live kidney transplant, becoming the third facility in Lucknow to do so.

Manu, the first patient ever to undergo hand transplants at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Kochi on January 13 this year, has turned an organ donation crusader.

The Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) concluded a three-day 'Thoracic CME' workshop in Hyderabad on Saturday. Notable experts like Dr Hiroshi Date provided insights into living donor transplants, marking the first-of-its-kind workshop hosted in a government hospital in the state.

Prakash (name changed), a loader from Kadaluru in Tamil Nadu, was at a loss for words when he saw his hands. The 31-year-old couldn’t believe that he had got his limbs back, three years after they were crushed by the mechanical doors of a cargo vehicle.

King George's Medical University and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences have decided to work together for organ transplant.

In what may give the much needed push to organ transplantation activities in Uttar Pradesh, the state government has decided to set up the State Organ Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO), a state-level body that can revolutionize the sector in a big way.

Shreya (name changed on request) is raring to eat a piece of cake. "My doctor said I can have 'gulab jamun' too, and some pastry. All in a week's time from now," she said with a joyful glint in her eyes.

A 22-year-old man, who was working on contractual basis in a government agency, saved life of three persons as his family members donated his organs after he was declared brain dead while he was undergoing treatment for the head injuries he had suffered on February 21 in Niwai of Tonk district.