The Apollo Hospitals journey has been one with many milestones and many spectacular medical feats.
The 1980’s
Right from the beginning, Apollo’s tryst with quality cardiac care was established. By 1985, the Cardiac Surgery Programme completed 100 surgeries, with a success rate of 98%. In a couple of years, over 700 Open Heart Surgeries were completed at Apollo.
Birth of a baby by the ‘GIFT’ procedure, by the IVF unit in 1989.
The 1990’s
In 1990, the surgeons at Apollo performed an unprecedented revolution in orthopedics by equalizing limbs, and deformity correction by the llizarov procedure.
The Apollo Institute of Neuro Sciences made a name for itself by excelling in neuro critical care, and the handling of neurological problems.
By 1992, Apollo Hospitals introduced Artery Stenting for the first time in India.
In 1995, Apollo Hospitals performed its first Bone Marrow Transplantation, as well as the first multi organ transplant in the country.
The same year, three year old Aftab was the 10,000th patient to undergo Open Heart Surgery at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Apollo Hospitals pioneered many orthopedic procedures like Hip and Knee Replacements, Birmingham Hip Resurfacing and Disc Replacements.
The 2000’s
Early in 2001, The Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai completed 100 Bone Marrow Transplants.
Apollo Hospitals performed a successful heart surgery on a 2 day old baby, and successfully implanted a pacemaker on a 97 year old patient.
Apollo launched SACH –Save A Child’s Heart – aimed at providing pediatric cardiac care to underprivileged children.
Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad completed 20 stem cell transplants for different diseases successfully. The hospital has also done the first successful "Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (Stem Cells collected from one's own body) for Acute Leukemia" in Gujarat.
Established the fastest growing Liver Transplant program in India with the biggest cadaver program for liver. 400 Liver Transplants have been performed with a success rate of 90%. In less than two years since inception, the team at the Apollo Centre for Liver Disease and Transplantation completed 50 Liver Transplantations, marking a noteworthy first-of-its-kind milestone in the city of Chennai.
Apollo Hospitals Chennai completed 10,000 Coronary Angioplasties in 2009. In the initial years, only Balloon Angioplasties were done. This progressed over the years to using metallic stents and medicated stents and further advanced in the recent past to doing many refined procedures like Multi-Vessel Angioplasty, Left Main Angioplasty and Bifurcation Lesions.
Medical breakthrough was achieved in Cardiac Care at Apollo Hospitals Chennai – successfully completed 25,000 coronary bypass procedures including 10,000 beating heart coronary bypass operations.
FIRSTS ACHIEVED AND RECORDS REACHED!
MEDICAL :
Pioneered open heart surgeries and cardiac catheterization, in the early 80’s.
Pioneers of the Preventive health check programmes in India and performed over a million checks to date.
Introduced cutting edge procedures like off-pump and beating-heart surgery, either by thoracotomy (minimal invasive access) or classical sternotomy, trans-radial angioplasty and stenting, mitral valve replacement.
By 1992, Apollo Hospitals introduced Artery Stenting for the first time in India.
Conducted over 90,000 cardiac surgeries - one of only 10 hospitals in the world to achieve these volumes. Achieved a 99.6% success rate in cardiac bypass surgeries, over 91% of which were beating heart surgeries.
Largest series of aortic valve replacement with stentless heart valve bioprosthesis performed.
Performed over 7,50,000 major surgeries and over 10,00,000 minor surgical procedures with exceptional clinical outcomes.
First private healthcare provider to perform a heart transplant in 1995.
In 1995, Apollo Hospitals performed its first Bone Marrow Transplantation, as well as the first multi organ transplant in the country.
Apollo performed an unprecedented revolution in orthopedics by equalizing limbs and deformity correction by the llizarov procedure.
First successful:
Pediatric liver transplant in India
Adult liver transplant in India
Cadaver liver transplant in India
Transplant in acute liver failure in India
Liver-kidney transplant in India
were all performed by Apollo Hospitals.
Apollo Hospitals was the first Indian hospital group to introduce Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for cancer treatment.
Pioneered orthopedic procedures like hip and knee replacements, the Illizarov procedure and the Birmingham hip re-surfacing technique.
Revolutionary Ceramic Coated Knee Replacement was performed for the 1st time in South India at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
Resorbable screws were used for the first time in India at Apollo Hospitals Chennai to correct congenital spine problem of a six-year-old child from Tanzania.
An innovative Orthopedic procedure was performed for the first time in India at Apollo Hospitals Chennai - leading to pain free postoperative recovery after shoulder surgery. The Orthopedic team at Apollo Hospital, Chennai successfully performed an Arthroscopic Brachial Plexus Catheterization on a young lady patient.
The Paediatric Cardiac team at the new Apollo Children’s Hospital successfully performed a complicated surgery to treat a complete a-v canal defect in a 4–month old Nigerian baby in 2009.
India's first keyhole multiple bypass surgery was conducted by Dr Naresh Trehan at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi. It took him less than four hours to perform the scar less surgery, without cutting any bone of the patient. This technique uses a combination of small holes in the chest and a small incision, made indirectly over the coronary artery to be bypassed. It is often performed using robotics and video-imaging, which help the surgeon operate in a small area.
An 8 year old Omani child with aortoarteritis and uncontrollable hypertension with impending kidney failure and intestinal gangrene was successfully managed by a simultaneous vascular reconstructive surgery on the narrowed arteries supplying both the kidneys and the intestines at Apollo hospitals chennai .Such simultaneous bypass and reconstruction in a young child is a first for India and only a few such procedures have been done worldwide.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY:
First to install the most modern diagnostic and surgical infrastructure like the 320-Slice CT Scan and many others.
First hospital group to bring the 320 Slice CT- Angio scan system and the 64 Slice CT-Angio scan system to India.
First hospital group in South-East Asia to introduce the 16 Slice PET-CT Scan.
Equipped with the largest and most sophisticated sleep laboratory in the world.
Introduced the most advanced CyberKnife® Robotic Radio Surgery System in Asia Pacific, the world’s first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter accuracy.
Novalis Tx™ Radiotherapy & Radiosurgery, one of the most precise, non-invasive and fastest treatments available for cancerous and non-cancerous conditions of the entire body was launched at Apollo Cancer Institute Hyderabad in 2009. Treatments are delivered from outside the body to destroy tumors without an incision. This protects the patient’s healthy tissue, so patients can avoid hospitalization, lengthy recovery periods and many of the complications often associated with conventional surgery.
