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Nanotherapy offers ray of hope for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Evanston (Illinois) [US], January 18 (ANI): A team of researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a technique to help make immunomodulation more effective. The method used nanocarriers to re-engineer the commonly used immunosuppressant rapamycin.
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Study finds better long-term outcomes with infant kidney transplants
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
California [US], January 15 (ANI): A new study has found improved outcomes for children with kidney disease who receive transplants as infants.
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US: In first-of-its-kind, man with terminal heart disease gets transplant
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 11 (ANI): In a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery, a 57-year-old Maryland man with terminal heart disease has received a genetically modified pig heart.
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Researchers find new method to evaluate donor kidney quality
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 9 (ANI): Researchers have found a way to evaluate the quality of kidneys before transplantation that could help increase the number of usable donor kidneys.
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MGM Healthcare achieves a rare feat of performing combined procedures of l
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 7 (ANI/BusinessWire India): MGM Healthcare, Chennai today showcased a successful and a rare and complex surgery performing a living liver donor transplantation and a beating-heart bypass surgery on a 61-year-old male from Nellore in a single sitting. The
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A new method that could offer a more accurate way to evaluate donor kidney
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 7 (ANI): A new study has found a way to evaluate the quality of kidneys before transplantation that could one day help increase the number of usable donor kidneys.
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Youngest child to successfully undergo small intestine transplant in Asia
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 5 (ANI/PRNewswire): Rela Hospital, a multi-speciality, quaternary care hospital in Chennai, has entered the Asia Book of Records for having successfully performed a small intestine transplant surgery on a 4-year-old boy from Bangalore, the youngest in
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Study suggests kidney retransplantation may offer better survival than dia
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 1 (ANI): After kidney failure, kidney transplantation is the preferred therapy, but kidneys transplanted from deceased donors often do not last for the rest of a recipient's life.
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Globally renowned Cardiothoracic Specialist and Heart & Lung Transplan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 30 (ANI/NewsVoir): Globally renowned Cardiothoracic specialist and Heart & Lung Transplant surgeon Dr Kumud Dhital has joined Sparsh Group of Hospitals to lead the Heart and Lung Transplant Unit at the soon-to-be launched Sparsh Multi-organ Transpl
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Retransplantation may offer better survival than dialysis: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): Kidney transplantation is the preferred therapy after kidney failure, but kidneys transplanted from deceased donors often do not last for the rest of a recipient's life.
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Study finds brain stimulation may aid children with arthrogryposis
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): A team of researchers from the Turner Scientific Research Institute for Children's Orthopaedics studied how the brains of children with arthrogryposis control elbow flexion after muscle transplantation.
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Lungs harvested in Gujarat's Ahmedabad travels to Delhi via air, two green
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): Lungs harvested from a brain-dead patient in Ahmedabad was on Wednesday transported to Delhi for life-saving transplant surgery. The organ was transported covering a distance of 950 kms in 3 hours via air and two green corridors.
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