Hospital Updates

Heart Transplant team at Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai gives new lease of life to a 40 -year old patient

Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, a JCI accredited, quaternary care hospital completed a critical heart transplant of Mr. Navnath Jarhad, a 40-year-old patient from Nashik with a complaint of heart failure. The patient also had a history of heart, lung, kidney, and liver failure with complaints of massive weight loss and water logging in the abdomen […]

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Complex Liver Transplant at Kamineni Hospitals brings new ray of hope into life of 49-year-old Patient

Surgeons at Kamineni Hospitals, LB Nagar, Hyderabad, performed a Complex Cadaver Liver Transplant surgery on a 49-year-old patient, who was suffering from Primary Biliary Cirrhosis with autoimmune hepatitis since October 2021. He was brought to the hospital with complaints of tiredness, general weakness, and later, Pedal oedema. After performing certain tests, doctors diagnosed that the […]

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MGM Healthcare Chennai successfully performs India’s first Mitral valve replacement with a MITRIS valve on a 38-year-old patient from Madurai

MGM Healthcare, a multi-quaternary care hospital in Central Chennai has announced that they had successfully performed a mitral valve replacement on a 38-year-old patient for the very first time in India. The surgery was done on 19th February, 2022.  The surgery team was led by Dr. AB Gopalamurugan, Senior Consultant of Interventional Cardiology and Electrophysiology […]

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Guinness World Records for Indian patient sets the new title for the most fibroids removed

    A 34-year-old journalist and former TV anchor, Ritika Sharma, officially set a new Guinness World Records title for the most fibroids removed, at Sakra World Hospital, Bengaluru.  She is also an inspired woman to have had removed 236 fibroids from her uterus including a large cauliflower shaped fibroid measuring up to 20X20X10 CMS and […]

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Medica performs a successful surgery on a patient from Tripura, hit by an Air Gun Pallet

Medica Group of Hospitals, the largest private hospital chain in Eastern India, at its flagship facility Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Kolkata conducted a critical operation on a 47-year-old man from Tripura. The team of experienced doctors from the ENT department and the care team of Medica joined hands together for this unique case. The team put in their combined efforts […]

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A 63-Year-Old Heart Patient With Varicose Veins Successfully Undergoes Endovenous Laser Treatment At Apollo Spectra Hospital, Mumbai

A team headed by Dr Ashank Bansal, Vascular Surgeon helped a 63-Year-Old Heart Patient With Varicose Veins to move freely by successfully treating her with Endovenous laser treatment. The Woman was bed-ridden and is now able to walk after many years. The patient has been discharged from the hospital and has resumed her daily routine […]

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MGM Healthcare achieves a rare feat of performing combined procedures of Living Donor Liver Transplantation and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft on a patient

MGM Healthcare, Chennai today showcased a successful and a rare and a complex surgery performing a living liver donor transplantation and a beating-heart bypass surgery on a 61-year-old male from Nellore in a single sitting. The dual surgery spanning over 18 hours witnessed 15 doctors from various disciplines achieving the feat with precision. Dr Thiagarajan […]

Drug Updates

New Research Finds Challenges in Symptom Recognition and Diagnostic Testing can impact Patient Satisfaction for People with Vascular Disease

Abbott today released new global market research from its Beyond Intervention initiative, the company’s multi-year global research program designed to examine the vascular patient experience from the perspectives of patients, physicians and healthcare leaders. The latest research focuses on challenges that arise for physicians and patients during the earliest stages of the patient journey, uncovering […]

Digital Health News

Vivacare Partners With Asthma And Allergy Network To Provide Digital Patient Education Service To Their 18,000 Professional Members

Digital health and patient education company Vivacare is announcing today their partnership with Asthma and Allergy Network to provide a digital patient education service to their 18,000 professional members, including allergists, dermatologists, pediatricians and primary care providers. AAN members who enroll for the service receive a personalized “Patient Education Toolkit” pre-loaded with in-depth disease education resources, including […]

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First case in India done at Lilavati Hospital: IVL Lithotripsy assisted TAVI- A life saver for a patient with no ray of hope

First time in Mumbai, four cases of TAVI (Transcatheter aortic valve implantation) were performed in one day at Lilavati Hospital by Dr Ravinder Singh Rao, interventional structural cardiologist. Organizing Chairman and Live TAVI case operator, Dr Ravinder Singh Rao, and team, who performed the procedures showed 185 cardiologists from the country who had assembled in […]