Amidst the COVID-19 situation, a rare liver auto-transplantation surgery was successfully performed at Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore. The patient, a 46-year-old mother of two from Kolkata, had a malignant tumour in her liver which was inoperable due to the tumour’s location and that made conventional surgery risky. Dr.

Amidst the COVID-19 situation, Apollo Proton Cancer Center successfully treated an eight-year-old from Singapore who was diagnosed with a Grade IV medulloblastoma. The patient underwent surgery to remove the tumour but it was complemented with irradiation and chemotherapy so that  tumour recurrence could be avoided, said Dr. Rakesh Jalali, Medical Director of Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC), Chennai.
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The Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC), the first Proton Therapy Centre in South Asia and The Middle East, has been accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the recognized global leader in health care accreditation. This makes Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Chennai, India’s first dedicated advanced cancer centre to receive this international accreditation, and the 8th hospital in the Apollo Hospitals Group to join the portfolio of JCI accredited hospitals.
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TAVR or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, a minimally invasive surgical procedure, was successfully performed on a 93-year-old patient at Apollo Hospitals, Indore despite numerous challenges due to the lockdown. The nonagenarian with severe breathlessness and inability to lie down was airlifted to Indore, where he was diagnosed with a critical condition of severe stenosis of the aortic valve. The only alternative was a valve replacement that had to be carried out immediately.

The team of doctors at Apollo Children’s Hospital successfully saved a five-month-old baby by performing a high-risk procedure. The parents brought the baby to Apollo Children’s Hospital when she suddenly developed breathlessness. Dr CS Muthukumaran and Dr Anuradha Sridhar, Senior Interventional Paediatric Cardiologists, confirmed that the baby was suffering from Left Atrial Appendage Aneurysm, a rare condition. The surgical team consisting of Dr Neville Solomon, Dr Musthafa Janeel Moosa and Dr V Swaminathan took the baby up for an open heart surgery.

As the world remains engulfed with the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic, other health conditions that need immediate medical attention have taken a toll. It has been observed that people are delaying their surgeries owing to the fear of visiting a hospital and contracting the infection. There is no health condition irrespective of the age group that can be ignored or the treatment for which can be put on hold. More so in the case of infants who are born with congenital heart diseases.

Doctors at Apollo Children’s Hospitals Chennai successfully saved two young lives by performing complicated living donor liver transplants on a six-month-old baby from Jharkhand and an eleven-year-old girl from Trichy during the pandemic. The surgical team led by Dr. K. Elankumaran, Surgical Gastroenterologist, Liver Transplant Surgeon Apollo Children’s Hospitals performed the transplant surgeries and mothers of both the children gave a new lease of life to them once again by donating part of their livers.

While the world grapples with the fear of contracting Coronavirus, authorities worldwide are entirely focused on tackling Covid-19 spread and have issued guidelines for the management of other diseases and health conditions. However, amidst the nationwide lockdown, some patients suffering from serious health conditions could not get specialized medical attention.

Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, operated a 52-year-old woman for removal of the largest ovarian tumour ever to be operated in the world. Patient was a resident of New Delhi who had been gaining weight for the last few months and weighed a total of 106 kgs. She recently started experiencing difficulty in breathing, acute pain in her lower abdomen and consequently difficulty in walking and sleeping. With rapid weight gain and increasing complications, the family consulted a local surgeon, who then referred the patient to Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed a complicated Limb saving revascularization Procedure on a patient from Georgia. The patient sustained a crushing injury in his lower limb during his work on a cargo ship that was stationed near Chennai. Dr Rajarajan Venkatesan, Senior Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals and team moved the patient for emergency surgery with proper protection for COVID prevention. A Limb Saving Revascularization (popliteal artery grafting) procedure and Liberal Leg Fasciotomy was performed by the Vascular and Plastic surgery team.