Kidney transplant

Indian doctor, 3 Bangladeshis held in trans-boundary kidney transplant racket

Racket would lure donors from Bangladesh, reports Indian Express

First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies

Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, received the transplant in March in a four-hour surgery that the hospital at the time called "a major milestone in the quest to provide more readily available organs to patients."

The ordeal of patients with chronic kidney diseases

Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.

Humanity was all she believed in

Twenty-year-old Sara Islam’s consent to donate her organs after her death has given new life to four, two with completely damaged kidneys and two without eyesight, in the country’s first successful transplantation of organs from a brain-dead patient.

BSMMU surgeons perform country's 'first' cadaveric kidney transplant

Surgeons at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University successfully transplanted kidneys from a clinically dead person to two separate patients last night..One of the surgeons said it was the first cadaveric kidney transplant performed in the country.

Five arrested for kidney trade on social media

Rab arrested five members a gang, including its ringleader, on charge of buying and selling kidneys using social media.

Kidney Donation: Patients suffer for legal constraints

Fahmida, who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years, now desperately needs a second kidney transplant. Her mother Fatema Zohra had donated her a kidney in 2015, but it got damaged within a year.

Transplant of kidney from brain-dead to begin soon

Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.

Lab-grown kidneys work in animals

Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.

July 9, 2024
July 9, 2024

Indian doctor, 3 Bangladeshis held in trans-boundary kidney transplant racket

Racket would lure donors from Bangladesh, reports Indian Express

May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024

First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies

Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, received the transplant in March in a four-hour surgery that the hospital at the time called "a major milestone in the quest to provide more readily available organs to patients."

January 21, 2023
January 21, 2023

The ordeal of patients with chronic kidney diseases

Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.

January 20, 2023
January 20, 2023

Humanity was all she believed in

Twenty-year-old Sara Islam’s consent to donate her organs after her death has given new life to four, two with completely damaged kidneys and two without eyesight, in the country’s first successful transplantation of organs from a brain-dead patient.

January 19, 2023
January 19, 2023

BSMMU surgeons perform country's 'first' cadaveric kidney transplant

Surgeons at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University successfully transplanted kidneys from a clinically dead person to two separate patients last night..One of the surgeons said it was the first cadaveric kidney transplant performed in the country.

July 20, 2022
July 20, 2022

Five arrested for kidney trade on social media

Rab arrested five members a gang, including its ringleader, on charge of buying and selling kidneys using social media.

December 1, 2019
December 1, 2019

Kidney Donation: Patients suffer for legal constraints

Fahmida, who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years, now desperately needs a second kidney transplant. Her mother Fatema Zohra had donated her a kidney in 2015, but it got damaged within a year.

February 10, 2019
February 10, 2019

Transplant of kidney from brain-dead to begin soon

Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.

September 22, 2015
September 22, 2015

Lab-grown kidneys work in animals

Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.