It’s never an easy task to walk again on your own when you have a fall at the age of 98 and fractured your hip. The lower body is immobile and the patient needs to be cared for long. Doctors say that the chance of success for patients undergoing surgery like Hip Replacement at that age is minimal. When no alternatives are available and pain relief is to be provided immediately, Hip Replacement surgery is the best alternative, to relieve a painful hip joint.

Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA) on behalf of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), on behalf of Government of Israel, granted HealthNet Global, a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, India and Zebra Medical Vision, Israel funding to validate, co-develop and deploy medical imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) across India and to increase Tuberculosis (TB) screening capabilities in the rural areas.

‘No matter how hard life is, don’t lose hope’ – The saying stands true for 45-year-old Etika Kalra, a resident of Delhi, who underwent a third kidney transplant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. This time, her husband donated his kidney to save her life. Even though they were ABO incompatible, which means that their blood groups did not match, due to the skilled expertise of Padma Shri awardee Dr.

The doctors at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad have successfully performed Liver Transplant on a four-month-old baby. It was a challenging case for doctors to perform transplant surgery on such a small baby. There are only few hospitals worldwide, having the capability to perform liver transplants among children, weighing less than 5 kgs and below 6 months of age.

At the tender age of six months, Emmanuel Lila Kamank, a Kenyan national, underwent open-heart surgery for a rare cyanotic congenital heart defect known as Taussig-Bing anomaly at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. Just four days after his birth, Emmanuel was diagnosed with this heart defect and as his condition worsened, he was referred to Apollo Hospitals, Delhi for surgery.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals brings TARE (Trans Arterial Radio Embolization), the latest treatment for liver cancers for the first time in Kolkata. It is the only option and hope for a special set of patients, who are actually quite large in number. TARE is a procedure, where using special instruments and micro-catheters, the identified source of blood supply to the tumor in liver is accessed and intra-arterial radiotherapy is delivered using Yttrium-90 (Radiotherapy agent).

Apollo Hospitals, Guwahati was the first hospital in Guwahati to perform Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery on March 7, 2019. A team of experts headed by renowned Cardio Thoracic Surgeon Dr. J P Kalita performed the complex surgery and saved a patient’s life. The surgery was performed on a 45-year-old female patient who had a hole in her heart and leakage of a heart valve.

Mr. Desai, a 41-year-old male, met with a road accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury and was promptly taken to Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai on September 15, 2018. When bought in, he was unconscious, with evident CSF rhinorrhoea and otorrhoea from left ear, and herniating brain tissue from the left nostril.

Apollo Proton Cancer Center, Chennai brings the best and latest medical technology in India, by successfully performing India’s first Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI) as a conditioning protocol prior to Bone Marrow Transplant on a 35-year-old female patient from Oman.
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Apollo Hospitals introduces the first of its kind Digital PET CT – Biograph Vision 600™ scanning machine. The state-of-the-art scanning machine is a radioactive diagnostic agent used in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The inauguration was done in the presence of Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Founder and Chairman – Apollo Hospitals, Ms. Suneeta Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Mr. Vivek Kanade, Executive Director, Siemens Healthineers India.
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