Apollo Firsts

Asia’s first dual implant of MitraClip and TAVR was successfully performed on a Sri Lankan patient at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
The World’s first combined Elective Caesarean and Robotic Assisted Radical Nephrectomy successfully performed by Apollo Proton Cancer Centre.
Baby with a novel mutation in blood (NF-E2) is the first in the world underwent a successful bone marrow transplant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi in 2020.
The first and the world’s largest Artificial Pulmonary Valve (32mm) was implanted without surgery by a team of doctors at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed India’s first Rotashock using Shockwave Lithoplasty.
First time in North East India, cardiac tumor was removed through Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery by Apollo Hospitals, Guwahati.
First Proton Therapy Centre in South Asia & The Middle East was launched by Apollo Hospitals.
South-Asia’s first digital PET/CT scanner was introduced at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Chennai
The first ever Transfemoral Pulmonary Valve Implantation using MYVAL, an Indian-made valve was performed by Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed Asia’s first simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplant on a 38-year-old patient.
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad performed double hip surgery on a Somalian patient using the Direct Hip Anterior Procedure, a first of its kind in India.
150 Knee Replacement Surgeries in the remote village of Aragonda was successfully performed by Apollo Hospital.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs Asia’s first en-bloc combined heart & liver transplant, joining a very small set of transplant centers in the world to have done this.
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad successfully treats a critically ill eleven day old baby with a complex and rare cardiac surgery – a first of its kind in India
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai introduces “the Ideal Knee” – the future of Total Knee Replacement through a new technique – Attune Rotating Platform Knee Replacement, a first of its kind in South India
The Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed the first ever abdominal wall transplant in South India
Apollo’s Orthopaedics experts are front runners in the management of spinal surgeries in India and are one of the very few centres in Asia which provide robotic spinal intervention
The Apollo Institutes of Orthopaedics are the first in asia to offer Robotic Spine Surgery, Robotic rehabilitation (Lokomat – a robotic treadmill and Erigo Robotic Tilt Table)
The Apollo Institutes of Orthopaedics are first in the country to offer Total Knee Replacement and Hip replacement surgeries,3rd generation spinal implants, Lumbar disc replacement, Resorbable screw usage to correct congenital spine problems
The Apollo Institutes of Orthopaedics introduced India’s First Centre of Excellence in Hip Arthroscopy
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, successfully performs a Presbyopia implant for the first time in South India.
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata launches India’s first Cellvizio System.
Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Nandanam is the first single specialty oncology hospital to achieve the Stage 6 award of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has received the ISO 22000 – HACCP certification by the British Standards Institution, making it South India’s first hospital to achieve this honour.
First of it’s kind in the world – Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi performs a Robotic surgery on 10 year old to fix a collapsed vertebra
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performs the first simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas transplant in South India
First in India and South East Asia to successfully separate male Pygopagus twins.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed the first double-lung transplantation for Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) genetic condition in India. HPS results from mutations in one of seven different genes.
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals gives a new lease of life to an Eight Month old Baby Boy with Encephalomeningocele presenting like Two Heads: A First time in India.
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad performed coronary angioplasty using absorb-BVS for the first time in India.
First Cord blood transplant for treating leukemia, in India.
First Programme to cross 1200 solid organ transplants in 1 year.
First ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane Oxygenation) Procedure in India done at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
First Ipod Navigation Hip Resurfacing surgery at Apollo Specialty Hospital Chennai.
First 640 slice CT scanner & Cyberknife in India.
First Renaissance Robotic Spine Surgery system in India and South Asia.
First Largest Branded Pharmacy Network.
First Navigation surgery for Maxillo Facial Trauma in India at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
World’s first Scarless endoscopic revision gastroplasty for failed bariatric surgery at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
World’s first Single Incision Revision Bariatric Surgery and India’s first Single Incision Gastric Bypass at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
First Hospital in India to perform Robotic Gastric Bypass & Sleeve gastrectomy.
Dedicated Bifurcation Stent technology used for Complex Bifurcation angioplasty at Apollo Hospitals Chennai, a first in Tamil Nadu.
First of its Kind – Dental Wellness Center in India, the “WHITE”, 7-star Dental Spa launched at Chennai.
Latest State of the Art ” da Vinci Si Robotic system”, launched at Chennai – the first of its kind in Tamil Nadu.
Tamilnadu’s First Movement Disorder Clinic launched at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Apollo Gleneagles Children’s Centre, the first “Level III Pediatric Facility” in Eastern India, launched at Apollo Hospitals Kolkata.
Latest M guard stent technology saves a 27 year old from acute heart attack. Apollo Hospital first to introduce the technology in Chennai
First-of-it’s-kind in South Asia – Full Field Digital Mammography with Tomosynthesis (3D) system launched at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
Apollo Health City – Hyderabad -the first hospital in the country to be recognized as the “Best Medical Tourism Facility for 2009-2010” by Govt of India.
First American Gets A Successful Heart Transplant At Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Apollo Hospitals Kolkata Launches Eastern India’s first dedicated comprehensive Bone Marrow Transplant Unit.
Apollo Health City, Hyderabad performed the first bilateral OrthoGlide knee surgery for the first time in India.
Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur has received the NABH accreditation making it India’s First Rural Hospital to achieve this honour and a leader in modern healthcare.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was the pioneer in India for the Ilizarov technique.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai introduces “the Ideal Knee” – the future for Total Knee Replacement through a new technique – Attune Rotating Platform Knee Replacement, a first of its kind in South India.
The first navigation surgery in India for maxillofacial surgery/trauma was performed at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is the first hospital in the country to get the latest 3D mapping technology in arrhythmia management.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai introduces a new implant – Zimmer Motion Loc used in operating Osteoporotic fractures, a first of its kind in South India.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has been the first in the country to introduce Shape Metal Alloys to treat Scoliosis
The first ever Bridge to Heart (BTH) transplant (LVAD to Heart transplant) to be performed in India was done in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has performed the first successful emergency heart transplant in the country.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed the first OCT (Optical Coherence Tomogram) in the country for assessment of chronic rejection in a patient who is over 4 years post transplant. This technique is just evolving in the west.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed India’s first Double Lung transplant for Hermansky- Pudlak syndrome (2nd in world)
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed India’s first Heart Lung and Kidney transplant (2nd in world)
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed the first heart transplantation in 1995. This patient went on to survive for 14 years (the longest Indian transplant survivor)

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