Tamil Actor “Bonda” Mani requires a kidney transplant
CHENNAI: Actor ‘Bonda’ , who has been admitted to Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital in Chennai, is suffering from chronic renal failure, health minister Ma Subramanian said after visiting him. The health condition of the 59-year-old actor is presently stable, but doctors are preparing him for dialysis. On Saturday, doctors will perform a […]
11, including two doctors, are charged in a 6,000-page chargesheet for the Delhi Kidney Racket.
The doctors involved, worked at reputed hospitals in Delhi but joined the gang to earn more. They were paid Rs 1.5-Rs 2.5 lakh per surgery, claimed the chargesheet. The Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against 11 persons, including two doctors, for allegedly running a kidney transplantation racket in South Delhi. The accused were arrested in June following […]
Safdarjung Hospital witnesses its first robotic kidney transplant
Anup Kumar, who lead the surgery, said it involved a keyhole procedure as opposed to a 10-12 cm long incision that increases the risk of infection, hernia, and other complications India’s first robotic kidney transplant surgery at a government facility involving a 39-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukabad has been performed at New Delhi’s Safdarjung […]
Nawab Malik tells PMLA court that he almost lost his left Kidney
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Tuesday told the special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court that “he has almost lost his left kidney and is required to be kept in a clean and hygienic environment Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Tuesday told the special PMLA (Prevention of Money […]
A successful and simultaneous Heart-lung transplant was performed by Dr.DY PATIL Hospital in Pune
Dr. Bhagyashree P Patil Ma’am with the patient. Dr DY Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre in Pune’s Pimpri-Chinchwad has performed a successful simultaneous heart-lung transplant on a woman suffering from a rare lung disease – lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) – along with severe pulmonary hypertension. This disease causes a gradual loss of lung function. At […]
Doctors in Pune confirm that a woman who went a rare Heart-lung Transplant,is recovering rapidly
Representative image PUNE: A 37-year-old woman who in August became Pune’s first recipient of a dual heart-lung transplant, is now healthy and doing fine, her doctors said during a press briefing on Tuesday. The woman, a bank employee and a resident of Sinhagad Road area, had a rare lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM. The condition […]
Bengaluru’s pride Dr. Sandeep Nayak ranked amongst the top 3 winners of the global robotic surgery innovation award
A Bengaluru-based surgeon has been named as one of the winners of the KS International Robotic Surgery Innovation competition. Dr Sandeep Nayak was among the three surgeons from the US, India and Spain who won top honours in the ‘KS International Robotic Surgery Innovation competition’ by Michigan-based Robotic Surgery evangelist Vattikuti Foundation. The winners were selected from 100 global entries by an […]
51- year-old survived his second tranplant at Kauvery Hospitals
The patient, who was undergoing transplant for the second time, faced incompatibility with the donor on two fronts Doctors at Kauvery Hospitals here have managed to perform a second kidney transplant for a 51-year-old man despite the patient facing incompatibility with the donor on two fronts. A release from the hospital said the patient underwent […]
The youngest boy to undergo En Bloc Kidney Transplant was a 5-year-old boy from Sonipat.
The successful en-bloc kidney transplant was led by a team of surgeons at AIIMS. (Representational) New Delhi: A 5-year-old boy underwent a successful en-bloc kidney transplant at the AIIMS recently, making him the youngest patient to have undergone this procedure in India. En-bloc kidney transplantation occurs when two kidneys from the same small […]
AIIMS-Bhubaneswar was successful in its first-ever kidney transplant
AIIMS-Bhubaneswar (File Photo | EPS) By Express News Service BHUBANESWAR: AIIMS-Bhubaneswar has added another feather to its cap by successfully conducting its first live-donor kidney transplantation recently. The recipient and his donor father from Khurda district have been discharged from the hospital and are doing fine. The transplanted kidney is also functioning well with a […]
