Liver Transplant News
Michelle Trachtenberg Death: In a statement, NYPD said that officers responded to a 911 call just after 8 a.m. and Trachtenberg was pronounced dead by emergency medical workers, who also responded to the scene.
The mission was crucial given it was conducted at short notice.
Doctors in Chennai have performed a liver transplant and revived a comatose patient
The patient had also tested COVID-19 positive before the surgery
Doctors performed a liver transplant of a one-year-old girl child 'Hoor' of Saudi Arabia. The operation was performed in Artemis hospital of Gurugram. The liver transplant was performed using bovine jugular vein of a cow to provide blood circulation to the new liver.
A team of doctors covered a distance of 30.8 kilometres in 45 minutes using the local train to cover most of the distance.
A renowned Indian surgeon, Dr Subhash Gupta, is all set to perform three to four liver transplant surgeries in Karachi, as per a report by Pakistan media.
While 53-year-old Simon Bramhall admitted to assault, he pleaded not guilty to charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.
Continuing her humanitarian gesture, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday announced that a Pakistani national will be given visa for his liver transplant in India.
Azariah Malala and Lilaz Bakhtiyar from Fiji and Iraq are suffering from congenital liver defects, forms of Biliary atresia.
Thomas Starzl performed the world's first liver transplant in 1963 and the world's first successful liver transplant in 1967.
The surgery took place on January 13.
As children, suffering from this condition grow older, their skin gets thickened and the light penetration decreases making phototherapy less effective.
The woman, who was admitted at Kokilaben Dhirubai Ambani Hospital, suffered from liver cirrhosis and was need of a transplant as she was in a critical state.
According to the doctors, while David's birth weight was 3 kg, the disease ravaged him, leading to malnourishment and weight loss.
Family members of a 53-year-old male patient - Samar Chakraborty - who was declared brain dead on Monday assented to the procedure to transplant the liver that is expected to bequeath a new lease of life to a 46-year-old female recipient with liver damage.
An 82-year-old man who hails from Kerala has given a new lease of life to a patient about half his age with his family donating his liver.
It took the ambulance a mere 3.36 hours to transport the liver from Nashik's Rishikesh Hospital to Pune's Sahyadri Hospital.
A Bengaluru-based biotechnology start-up has developed a 3D-printed tissue that functions like a human liver and can one day be used for full-fledged liver transplants, according to the developers.
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