21. The first successful paediatric heart transplant was performed in 1984.32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
22. Mattew Green was the first patient to leave hospital with an artificial heart in 2010. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
23. Plastic Surgery Plastic surgery is a, surgical repair of congenital or acquired deformities and the restoration of contour to improve the appearance and function of tissue defects. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
24. Applications of Plastic Surgery Severe Burns Skin Cancers 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
29. Identification of the criminals - After the 19th century 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
30. Why? The patterns which are made by epidermal ridges are unique from person to person. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
31. Evolution Traditional ink fingerprints typically contain rolled and flat prints Today, digital scanners capture an image of the fingerprint. To create a digital fingerprint, a person places his or her finger on an optical or silicon reader surface and holds it there for a few seconds. The reader converts the information from the scan into digital data patterns. The computer then maps points on the fingerprints and uses those points to search for similar patterns in the database. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
42. Heart disease conditionsThere are specific chemicals produced in these conditions & they also secreted in sweat and sebum. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
43. New Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure The therapy works by raising diminished levels of the protein S100A1, a calcium-sensing protein in the diseased heart muscle cell, to normal. Previous research suggests this will prevent against heart failure development, particularly in people who have had a heart attack 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
47. Gene therapy reversesParkinson”s symptoms In patients with Parkinson's disease, their brains get overactive after losing the normal supply of a chemical called GABA. Scientists have developed a novel gene therapy called NLX-P101. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
48. For patients who got the gene therapy, doctors drilled a hole into their brains while they were still awake. Doctors then slipped in a virus engineered to bring in billions of copies of a gene to help the brain pump out more GABA. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
49. Patients who received NLX-P101 showed a significant reduction in the motor symptoms of Parkinson”s, including tremor rigidity difficulty initiating movement 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
51. Nanotech Medicine to Rebuild Damaged Parts of Human Body A team of European scientists are able to rebuild damaged parts of human body from scratch & burns using latest developments in nanotechnology 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
52. Rice University, has developed a new method to connect and reconstruct blood vessels by using nanotechnology. The flesh welder could weld the artery perfectly. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
53. There is a successful research going on at Rutgers University to produce nanorobots that will be injected into the bloodstreamand administer a drug directly to an infected cell. 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
64. Venue – Wijaya Kumaratunga Memorial Hospital , Seeduwa32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna
65. Miraculous 'ectopic' baby born June 29. Dr. TilakDissanayake, 21 year old H.M.D. Chathurika he Castle Street Hospital for women might have the first baby in Sri Lanka, who successfully grew to full term outside her mother's womb and was delivered alive and well. bit late at 33 weeks in the abdominal cavity General Hospital that the visiting obstetrician gynaecologist, Dr. Prasad Wickremasinghe, identified 32nd batch - Faculty Of Medicine, Uni. of Ruhuna