Transplantation Technologies & Research

Intravesicle Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is generally considered to be contraindicated in the immunosuppressed or compromised patients with bladder cancer (BC) because of ineffectiveness or partial toxicities. Therefore, there is little experience with BCG in individual with impaired immune system and this can be challenging to practicing urologists. We sought to review the current available evidence of utilizing intravesicle BCG for BC in patients with solid organ transplantation and commented on its current status.

Living donor liver transplantation is well developed in India; experience of living donor liver transplantation has made significant impact on the techniques and approach to liver resection for non-transplant GI surgeons. There are differences the way surgeons with or without liver transplantation experience approaches the patient for liver resection. Liver transplantation positively affects the management of patient requiring liver resection in terms of techniques and preoperative and postoperative management. Visiting a liver transplant centre by those not having liver transplantation experience may help them to improve and expand their field of liver surgery.