Sanjiv Kumar Sinha, an orthopedician from Bihar, underwent a successful dual liver-kidney transplant in Bangalore.
Diabetic Kidney Disease - Symptoms, Signs, Causes, Diagnosis, Stages & Treatment
Diabetic nephropathy refers to kidney damage due very high levels of blood sugar levels in diabetics.
Diabetic nephropathy refers to kidney damage due very high levels of blood sugar levels in diabetics.
In November 2012, he experienced severe shortness of breath and was referred to Global Hospitals in Chennai. There, he was told that his liver got damaged and that he required a liver transplant.
He had to wait for a 6-month long period during which time he also suffered kidney damage.
About Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
At BGS Hospital in Bangalore, a team of multi-organ transplant surgeons and anesthetists operated on their fellow-doctor, first transplanting liver and later the kidneys under the same anesthesia effect.
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Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general information about Alcoholic Liver Disease.
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Kaiser Raja, a hepatologist from BGS Global Hospital, said, “Since it was two transplants at once, there was a high risk of infection. We had to minimize the bleeding as well.”
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Coffee Consumption Reduces Risk of Dying from Liver Cirrhosis
Drinking two or more cups of coffee each day cuts mortality risk from liver cirrhosis by 66 percent, finds study.
Drinking two or more cups of coffee each day cuts mortality risk from liver cirrhosis by 66 percent, finds study.
Source-Medindia
