Heart harvested in Bengaluru,
transplanted in Chennai child
Bengaluru: The heart of a brain dead
one year and 10-month-old infant was harvested here and flown to Chennai Friday
by a special aircraft to be transplanted in a two year and eight-months-old
child, in record time, thanks to the 'green corridor' the city traffic police
opened up for the emergency operation.
"We got a call from Manipal
Hospital around noon asking us to create a green corridor for taking a heart
from the HAL airport for transplantation in a Chennai hospital. Though the
distance is 2.2 km, we stopped vehicular traffic on the busy road to allow the
ambulance reach the airport in record time," Deputy Commissioner of Police
(east) N. Satish Kumar said.
The donor's heart was rushed to Chennai
in a blue box containing an organ transplant solution, which allows it to beat
for at least six hours after being retrieved from the body.
"The infant was declared brain
dead late Thursday four days (Dec 14) after he was brought to our hospital with
brain damage due to hypoxia (lack of sufficient oxygen supply to brain),"
Manipal Hospital medical director Sudarshan Ballal said.
The hospital alerted the zonal
coordination committee for Karnataka, the nodal agency for organ transplants in
the state, which identified the recipient boy at Fortis Malar Hospital in Chennai,
waiting for a donor's heart in the same age group.
"When the doctors told us that our
boy was brain dead but his other vital organs were functioning, we consented to
donate his heart to the needy child in Chennai," a grieving father told
reporters at the hospital here.
This is the second time in four months
when traffic police facilitated a green corridor (vehicular traffic-free roads)
to transport a heart from one city to another in record time.
A 37-year-old dead woman's heart was harvested Sep 3 at the
privately-run BGS Hospital in the city's south-west suburb and flown to Fortis
in Chennai in a special aircraft for transplantation into a 60-year-old ailing
patient in four hours.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
20.12.2014
Stress
triggering diabetes in developing nations
Washington: By migrating to urban areas
in search of better life opportunities, people in developing countries are
increasing their risk of diabetes and other metabolic disorders, shows a study.
"Our findings indicate that people
who leave a rural lifestyle for an urban environment are exposed to high levels
of stress and tend to have higher levels of the hormone cortisol," said
one of the study authors Peter Herbert Kann from Philipps University in
Marburg, Germany.
"This stress is likely
contributing to the rising rates of diabetes we see in developing
nations," Kann added.
Chronic exposure to the stress hormone
cortisol is one of the factors that can raise a person's risk of developing
diabetes and other metabolic problems.
Cortisol
can counteract insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar, and slow the
body's production of it.
To test the theory,
researchers examined rural and urban population from one ethnic group -- the
Ovahimba people of Namibia in southwestern Africa.
Among the urban residents, 28 percent of the people had
diabetes or other glucose metabolism disorders. The rate was less than half
that for rural residents.
The urban dwellers also had significantly higher cortisol
levels than their rural counterparts.
The study was published in the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
20.12.2014
The world
suffers a lot not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the
silence of good people
Napoleon
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