Indian Transplant Newsletter. Vol.23 Issue No.4, October 2024 – December 2024
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Five States Leading Deceased Donation and Transplantation in India

Sunil Shroff
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p1
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India's deceased organ donation program has seen significant success primarily in five states - Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. Over the past three years, each of these states has consistently recorded more than 100 ...

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First Robotic Double Lung Transplant Marks a New Era in Transplantation

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p2
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October 22, 2024, marked a new era in transplantation when the surgical team at NYU Langone Health accomplished a major milestone, by performing a completely robotic 'double lung transplant' on Cheryl Mehrkar, 57. The team led by Lead surgeon ...

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US Implements Policy Change: Allows Organ Transplants from HIV-Positive Donors

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
ndian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p2
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New guidelines allowing HIV-positive people to get kidney or liver transplants from HIV-positive donors have been published by US health officials.  This new regulation removes unnecessary barriers to kidney and liver transplants, expanding ...

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A Kidney Donor in the Past, Now a Recipient of Genetically Modified Pig Kidney

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p2
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Towana Looney, 53, is free from dialysis and in better health following a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month by NYU Langone Health surgeons. The operation represents the most recent encouraging development in a newly developed surgical ...

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Impact of State Honour' initiative: Tamil Nadu registers all-time increase in Organ Donations

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p3
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Tamil Nadu has set a new record and has reported 268 deceased organ donations in 2024, against 178 in 2023, leading to 1,500 deceased donor organ transplants in a year. The state retrieved 863 solid organs and 637 tissues, the highest numbers since ...

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Kota Becomes the First City to Place Plaques Outside the Homes of Corneal Donor Families

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p3
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Kota became the first city in the country, to place a plaque outside the houses of corneal donor families, which has "I am proud to be an eye-donating family" scripted in golden letters.   This interesting awareness campaign was started ...

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NOTTO's New Move: Centralized Cornea Waitlist Soon

Poonam Sharma, Sujatha Suriyamoorthi
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 OctDec; 23(4):p3
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Organ waiting lists - heart, liver, kidney - are available centrally on the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization's (NOTTO) website (https://www.notto.mohfw.gov.in/); no such list exists for cornea as of yet. Eventually, a centralised ...

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Odisha - An Emerging State's Experience with Deceased Organ Donation

Bramhadatta Pattnaik
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p4
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AIIMS Bhubaneswar has recently initiated deceased organ donation program. Tell us about it? AIIMS Bhubaneswar achieved a landmark milestone by performing its first deceased organ donation on February 23, 2024. This was followed by two more ...

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17th National Transplant Games by Narmada Kidney Foundation

Bharath V Shah
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p5
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Narmada Kidney Foundation (NKF) is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) set up in 1993 to create awareness about kidney diseases, organ donation and transplantation. One of its major activities is to conduct national transplant games ...

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Advancing Skills in Liver Transplantation: A Workshop for Transplant Coordinators held in Hyderabad

Jaya Jairam, Hemal Kanvinde
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p6
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Transplant coordinators, including clinical coordinators specializing in liver transplantation, were given an opportunity to improve their knowledge through a comprehensive one-day workshop under the aegis of the LTSI Conference in Hyderabad. The ...

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Ethics in Action - Annual Workshop for Transplant Coordinators

Pallavi Kumar
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p7
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The Network and Alliance of Transplant Coordinators (NATCO) successfully hosted its 17th Annual Conference on October 19-20, 2024, at the KD Hospital Auditorium in Ahmedabad. The two-day event, graciously hosted by KD Hospital, brought together ...

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Need for Legislations in India to Safeguard Living Donors

Jaya Jairam
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p8-9
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Addressing Organ Shortages: The Role of Living Donors For individuals with organ failure, transplantation offers a vital lifeline, significantly improving quality of life and survival. However, organ shortages, particularly kidney, remain a ...

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MOU with Coventry University, Warwichshire NHS Trust

Pallavi Kumar
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p9
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Coventry University, Warwickshire NHS Trust, and University Hospitals Coventry have joined forces with MOHAN Foundation to Advance Global Organ Donation and Transplantation   On October 16, 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was ...

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Allocation Policies - Liver Allocation Practices in Different States Across India

Hemal Kanvinde
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p10-11
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In the recent years, liver transplantation has gained momentum in many states of India. Across the country, 4,491 liver transplants were carried out in 2023, of which 840 (18.7%) involved deceased donors. The National Organ Tissue Transplant ...

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Himalayan International Transplant Conference, Nepal 2024

Pallavi Kumar
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec; 23(4):p11
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“The Himalayan International Transplant Conference” was held on December 14 - 15, 2024 at Everest Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal. The theme for the conference was "Promoting Organ Donation in the Developing World”.   At the ...

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Anant Acharya: A Kidney Recipient & An Organ Donation Ambassador

Anant Acharya
Indian Transplant Newsletter. 2024 Oct-Dec;23(4):p12
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Life has a way of surprising us, often in ways we least expect. At 35, I faced one of the toughest challenges of my life a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD). For someone who lived a disciplined life - no smoking, no drinking - this ...

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