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The kidney is the most commonly sought-after organ in transplant tourism, with prices for the organ ranging from as little as $1,300 [13] to as much as $150,000. [55] Reports estimate that 75% of all illegal organ trading involves kidneys. [56] The liver trade is also prominent in transplant tourism, with prices ranging from $4,000 [57] to ...
In a first of its kind procedure in India, KIMS Hospitals Lung Transplant Doctors successfully performed a double lung transplant surgery on a Covid-19 patient. [32] The KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant team has performed 12 Covid Double Lung transplants and overall 50 Lung and Heart transplant procedures between September 2020 and April 2021. [33]
Lung transplantation is the therapeutic measure of last resort for patients with end-stage lung disease who have exhausted all other available treatments without improvement. A variety of conditions may make such surgery necessary. As of 2005, the most common reasons for lung transplantation in the United States were: [2]
The Government of India enacted the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 to curb organ trading and promote deceased organ donation. After facing a multi-billion rupee kidney scandal in 2008, an amendment was proposed in 2009 [11] and passed in 2011 to get rid of loopholes which previously made illegal organ trading possible.
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.
The hospital performed the first lung transplantation in the Telugu states in 2012. Archana Shedge, a 34-year-old from Pune suffering from interstitial fibrosis underwent the life-saving surgery. [8] In 2017, Yashoda Hospitals performed the first combined heart and lung transplant in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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There is a shortage of organs available for donation with many patients waiting on the transplant list for a donation match. About 20 patients die each day waiting for an organ on the transplant list. [43] When an organ donor does arise, the transplant governing bodies must determine who receives the organ.