spareparts.exchange: Rahim and Robert, Stitched Together in Silence (Creative Intervention)

Spare Parts (spareparts.exchange) is an art installation created collaboratively by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Jim Ruxton, Camille Turner, and Monir Moniruzzaman. Based on Monir Moniruzzaman’s ethnographic research on the illicit organ trade, Spare Parts explores the ethics of organ trafficking and the emergence of bodily inequality in times of transplant tinkering. In this installation, the viewer is confronted with life sized video projections of Rahim Sheikh, a Bangladeshi kidney seller and Robert Zurrer, a Canadian kidney transplant recipient/buyer, whose kidneys were commodified in the marketplace. The video projections are installed so that the individuals sit in silence facing each other. Spare Parts highlights the intimacy of spare parts, the economy of the global marketplace, the perils of techno-medicine, and what is means to be human in the 21st century. The installation captures that the buying and selling of body parts is not just a market transaction, but rather represents the desperation, dis/connection, and inequality that exists in the trade.

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External Stenting (Exostenting) to Correct Vascular Torsion and Angulation

International Journal of Angiology ◽

10.1055/s-0041-1727132 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michael B. Silva ◽

Muhammad Shoaib ◽

Santiago J. Miyara ◽

Sara Guevara ◽

Alexia McCann-Molmenti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Kidney Transplantation ◽

Transplant Recipient ◽

Kidney Transplant Recipient ◽

External Iliac Artery ◽

Body Parts ◽

Fat Pad ◽

Synthetic Graft ◽

Vascular Integrity ◽

Vascular Compromise ◽

Current Report

AbstractOrgan transplantation can be associated with vascular torsions and angulations of both recipient and donor vessels. Such kinks and/or torsions of vessels can compromise the vascular integrity, obstruct inflow and/or outflow, and result in loss of the organ and/or body parts. On many occasions, mild angulations and torsions can be successfully addressed by repositioning the organ. In cases where the abnormal findings persist, maneuvers such as placing a fat pad to create a smoother curve, or even opening the peritoneum (in the case of kidney transplants) to allow for a better positioning of the organ, are associated with successful outcomes. When such torsions/angulations persist despite these approaches, further innovative tactics are required. In the current report, we propose a technique that involves longitudinally opening of a synthetic graft that is rigid enough to maintain its shape, such as a ringed polytetrafluoroethylene graft, and placing it as an external stent around the angulated/torsioned vessel. This maneuver will correct the underlying vascular compromise without having to perform any further invasive interventions, such as reimplanting the organ or resecting part of the involved vessel. Although primarily illustrated for application by describing an instance in which exostenting was applied during kidney transplantation, our approach could be applied to any vessel under many circumstances where angulations/twists are encountered. In this report, we describe the use of an external stent, also called exostenting, to correct a severe torsion/angulation of the external iliac artery in a kidney transplant recipient where all other measures were unsuccessful.

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Diabetes mellitus development secondary to chronic pancreatitis in a kidney transplant recipient

Endocrine Abstracts ◽

10.1530/endoabs.56.ep50 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alparslan Ersoy ◽

Nimet Aktas ◽

Aysegul Oruc ◽

Abdulmecit Yildiz ◽

Canan Ersoy

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Chronic Pancreatitis ◽

Transplant Recipient ◽

Kidney Transplant ◽

Kidney Transplant Recipient

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Sustained virological response after 4-week ritonavir-boosted paritaprevir, ombitasvir and dasabuvir plus ribavirin treatment in a kidney transplant recipient

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases ◽

10.15403/jgld.2014.1121.263.frz ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 319-321

Author(s):

Claudio Calvanese ◽

Andrea Lisotti ◽

Saverio Fiorenza ◽

Marcora Mandreoli ◽

Giancarlo Caletti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Transplant Recipient ◽

Sustained Virological Response ◽

Kidney Transplant ◽

Virological Response ◽

Kidney Transplant Recipient

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Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking: a comparative analysis of two cases

Trends in Organized Crime ◽

10.1007/s12117-021-09421-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Frederike Ambagtsheer

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Human Trafficking ◽

Organ Trafficking ◽

Institutional Barriers ◽

Human Organ ◽

Cross Border ◽

Successful Case ◽

Mixed Method Design ◽

Organ Trade ◽

Case Outcome

AbstractThe human organ trade is proliferating globally. However, far fewer cases have been prosecuted than would be expected based on estimates of the crime. Research exploring the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking cases is practically non-existent. Also no studies exist that explain these challenges utilizing a criminal justice framework. This article aims to explain the legal, institutional and environmental factors that affected the investigation and prosecution of two organ trafficking cases: the Netcare case, exposed in South Africa and the Medicus case, exposed in Kosovo. It analyzes these factors through a comparative, mixed-method design, utilizing a theoretical criminal justice framework. Both cases constituted globally operating criminal networks involving brokers and transplant professionals that colluded in organizing illegal transplants. Both cases contained human trafficking elements, however only the Medicus case was prosecuted as a human trafficking case. Legal uncertainty, a lack of institutional readiness and cross-border collaboration issues hampered investigation and prosecution of the Netcare case. The Medicus case also reported problems during cross-border collaboration, as well as a corrupt environment and institutional barriers, which impeded a successful case outcome. Recommendations to improve enforcement of organ trafficking include improving identification of suspicious transplant activity, strengthening cross-border collaboration and enhancing whistleblower protection laws.

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