“About one lakh people die due to brain death. Out of this, only 300 are ultimately taken up for liver or organ donation. There is a discrepancy in the available pool and the numbers that are ultimately used.”
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A two-month-old Nigerian baby weighing 2.1-kg has successfully undergone a liver transplant at a city hospital in Delhi and is claimed to be the smallest baby yet to undergo the surgical procedure.
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A ‘cadaveric skin transplantation’ has been successfully performed at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research here, claimed to be the first to be performed in a government hospital.
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More than 2.5 lakh blind people in India could regain eyesight if majority of the Indian hospitals start conducting eye transplants, showed statistics recently released by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
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“The patient suffered from ischemic heart disease (condition that affects the supply of blood to the heart) and already had a stent procedure surgery. The heart was harvested from the 30-year-old man in Indore who had died in a road accident.”
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