Organ Transplants

How is a Kidney Transplant Done
Kidney transplant is a surgical procedure conducted for replacing a malfunctioning kidney of the patient with a healthy kidney from the donor. Read on to understand more on how a kidney transplant is done.

Information on Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplantation is one of the most important developments in the field of medicine. It involves the replacement of a diseased kidney with a healthy kidney obtained from another person. Know more about kidney transplantation...

Double Arm Transplant Patient Doing Better than Expected
A German man who lost both arms six years ago is doing remarkably well after a double arm transplant this summer.

Bone Marrow Transplant
Bone marrow transplant is a procedure, in which healthy bone marrow is transplanted into a patient with unhealthy bone marrow. This procedure is needed to treat a number of medical conditions such as hereditary metabolic diseases, hereditary blood diseases, different types of cancer and hereditary immune deficiencies. Here is some useful information about bone marrow transplant and its types.

Four Organ Transplant Recipients get HIV and Hep C from Donor
Four Chicago-area organ transplant recipients discovered that their donor had given them more than they bargained for when they all tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis C.

Surgery and Medicine - Face Transplant
So far only partial face transplants have been done, but a full face transplant is very likely to be possible in the near future.

Nerve Transplants: A Little-Known Alternative to Amputation
Nerve transplants offer many advantages over amputation. The most obvious benefit is the aesthetic aspect.

First Double Arm Transplant Patient Recovering Well
German farmer Karl Merk performing basic tasks with new limbs after undergoing pioneering surgery in July

The Liver Center
Liver Transplant Center at Apollo Hospital is managed by young dynamic doctor Dr. Anand Khakhar

Liver Transplant in India
Liver is the second largest organ of human body and needs much care while in trouble. The Apollo Hospital, Chennai has the finest liver transplant program in India.

A Vital Change That Could Save Thousands of Lives
Leader: Three people die every day in Britain for want of an organ transplant. When asked, most of us claim to be happy for our organs to be used to save others after we die, yet only one quarter of the population has registered to do so

Cardiomyopathy - Don’t Take a Heart Transplant for an Answer!
You don’t ever want to be hearing that you might be a candidate for a heart transplant. What steps can you take now to help avoid this?

A Vital Change That Could Save Thousands of Lives
Leader: Three people die every day in Britain for want of an organ transplant. When asked, most of us claim to be happy for our organs to be used to save others after we die, yet only one quarter of the population has registered to do so

Transplant Woman Tells of Her Life With a New Face
The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant has learned to eat and speak but has yet to manage her biggest challenge: a kiss.

Transplant Tourism : The Market for Human Organs
Medical opinion is increasingly on-side with transplantation as the best possible option for patient's facing organ failure. Advances in organ transplant procedures have increased the odds that the surgery will offer a new lease of life.

First Genome Transplant Turns One Species Into Another
Research is aimed at producing green fuel - Critics warn of terrorists creating new bioweapons

Are Doctor's Playing God?
A newspaper article, about plans by surgeons in New York to transplant an entire womb from a brain-dead donor into a living woman, set me thinking. Is modern medicine playing God? Doctors can now transplant almost any human organ.

Man Rejects First Penis Transplant
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.

Scientists Ready for Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant. The 24-hour operation involves lifting an entire face from a dead donor - including nose cartilage, nerves and muscles - and transferring them to someone hideously disfigured by burns or other injuries.

Scientists Prepare to Turn Fiction Into Fact With First Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant.

Quality of life vastly improved for most patients
The prospects for most people who have liver transplants are good. Nine in 10 recipients are alive a year after the operation and five-year survival rates are between 70% and 85%, but there is a big shortage of donors, and ideally the organs should come from people under 50.

Workers at microwave popcorn factory may need lung transplants, lawyers say
A new and horrible industrial disease has emerged to join the great scourges of a supposedly forgotten past: popcorn packer's lung.