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Zisanda Nkonkobe’s low haemoglobin count brought her to the brink of death when she was diagnosed earlier in September with auto-immune haemoglobin anaemia, a rare condition involving the breakdown of oxygen-carrying red blood cells through the body. Her haemoglobin count
At least 32 young children have died since 2000 after failing to receive a heart transplant – a sign of South Africa’s faltering organ donation and transplantation programmes. In one hospital in a five-year period from 2010 to 2014, two
For over 50 years, heart transplantation has been regarded as the “gold standard” in treatment of cardiomyopathy and end-stage heart failure. But Cape Town-based cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Willie Koen told the congress of the South African Transplant Society in
What might South Africa’s organ and tissue transplant programme look like in future? This was the question examined during a two-day workshop to develop a national roadmap to increase deceased organ and tissue donor referrals and donor family consents for
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