The team of Cardiologists at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad led by Dr. A. Sreenivas Kumar, Director, Cardiology & Clinical Research has performed a critical cardiac procedure – Trans Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) on an 83-year-old COVID survivor male patient from West Godavari District. The patient was suffering from Hypertension, Mild Coronary Artery Disease, COPD, severe Degenerative Aortic Valve Disease, severe Aortic Stenosis and Mild Aortic Regurgitation.

Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, has launched first-of-its-kind knee replacement program, offering specialized partial and total knee replacement care with the use of advanced robotic technology, The Navio Surgical System. The Robotic system has an advanced computed program which relays precise information about the knee with 3D mapping. The use of next generation robotics with smaller incision will result in less pain and lesser blood loss. Precision in bone cutting and better position of implant with alignment gives a near normal knee motion for both total and partial knee replacement.

Apollo Hospitals Group has partnered with Tata Medical and Diagnostics (Tata MD) to launch ‘TataMD CHECK’, the world’s first CRISPR Cas-9 based diagnostic test, to help increase testing for COVID-19 across the country.
Apollo Hospitals, along with its subsidiary, Apollo Diagnostics will offer the TataMD CHECK testing in the National Capital Region from the first week of December 2020 and shortly thereafter, it will be rolled out across all major centres, namely Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Pune, followed by a second phase at o ther cities.

Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, performed the first Fast Track Total Knee Replacement in South India. Fast Track Total Knee Replacement is a daycare knee replacement surgery, devoid of hospital stay, minimal aftereffects of anaesthesia, pain, trauma, infection, above all speedy recovery and being back to normal routine in a couple of days. The revolutionary surgery was performed on a known diabetic 65-year-old female patient, by a team led by Dr K J Reddy, Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, on November 2nd, 2020.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata has successfully performed Eastern India’s first breast and ovarian cancer risk reduction surgery on a 37-year-old homemaker and brought a sigh of relief to the family besides setting a record of sorts.
Mrs. Mousumi Roy, a resident of Kuikota in Midnapore district, lost her mother due to breast cancer when she was only 10 years old. She later lost her maternal aunt to the same disease as well. Incidentally, her father also died of cancer.

Apollo Hospitals Group partners with India Medtronic Private Limited to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) for advanced stroke management for the first time in India. The USFDA approved AI platform for stroke diagnosis has been validated by clinical trials. The AI software will provide automated analysis in less than two minutes as against currently accepted imaging practices for diagnosis of stroke that takes up to one hour to complete, thus enabling faster decision making in stroke where every second counts.

Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, successfully performed a bone marrow transplant on a 17-month-old Filipino baby, for what can be called as world’s first ever bone marrow transplant for a novel mutation in the blood (NF-E2). As a first of its kind case to have ever been reported in the world (first published in British Journal of Hematology), the doctors at Dubai were not fully equipped to conduct a Bone Marrow Transplant for such a condition.

Mr. Mahboob Rahman, a 51-year-old from Murshidabad, was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In 2019, he was suffering from jaundice for which he underwent stenting to relieve the jaundice. He then underwent two more stenting surgeries at a hospital in Midnapore, West Bengal. He was later brought to Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata and was diagnosed with a mass at the pancreatic head.

In the past few months, COVID 19 has been associated with many severe health complications that it poses in the long run. Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, came across one such rare case, which might be the first reported case of post-covid encephalitis in India. 55-year-old Mr. Mitlesh Labru from Jammu was diagnosed with Acute haemorrhagic LeukoEncephalitis: a neurological disorder: Encephalitis means inflammation in the brain.

A 5-month-old infant became the youngest child to undergo a successful heart transplant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals on 13th January 2021. At birth, the baby was diagnosed with poor heart function (dilated cardiomyopathy) due to multiple holes in the left chamber of the heart. Consequently, the blood that was supposed to reach the heart was getting drained out, hampering its smooth functioning.