Doctors at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre has successfully performed India’s first Megaprosthesis Fixation for femur and Laparoscopic Radical nephrectomy as a single stage surgery through a Multimodal approach. A 54-year-old female from Assam visited the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre on June 13, 2021. She had sustained fracture of her left thigh bone and suffered a trivial injury two months ago, after which she was bedridden and completely immobile. On evaluation and a biopsy, she was diagnosed with metastatic left renal cell carcinoma which is a cancerous lesion of the kidney.

The Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery of Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai has partnered with Rotary Club of Madras East to help underprivileged children requiring lifesaving heart surgery.

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC) has successfully operated on a female patient from Bangladesh suffering from rectal cancer, using Robotic Stapler for the first time. The patient with rectal cancer visited Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in March 2021. She was diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer and received chemotherapy with radiotherapy to shrink the cancer. She was re-evaluated in June 2021. Since the tumour had shrunk considerably with the previous treatment, the patient was counselled to undergo a robot-assisted surgical procedure, known as a low anterior resection.

29-year-old Mr. Ravi Sharman Ahirwar, a resident of Mumbai, underwent a successful heart transplantation surgery at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai. The heart was harvested from a 48-year-old woman from Pune, who suffered a brain haemorrhage on 2nd July, 2021. Despite efforts, she didn’t respond to the treatment and was declared brain dead as per the clinical protocols on July 14th 2021.The family was counselled and they wholeheartedly agreed for organ donation. The patient’s Liver, Kidney and Heart were also donated.

Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram launched a Quaternary Care, Level FOUR Epilepsy Care Center to help people living with epilepsy. The advanced epilepsy care centre was launched by Honourable Minister Thiru. S M Nasar, Milk and Dairy Development Department, Tamil Nadu Government and Dr Alby John Varghese, IAS District Collector & District Magistrate Tiruvallur.

Apollo Hospitals, has successfully conducted MitraClip implant surgery on a 41-year-old male farmer who had waited for over three months in other hospitals for a heart transplant. The patient was back on his feet within a few days after the procedure, and might not even need a heart transplantation.

Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi has performed a rare life-saving heart surgery on a two-day old newborn for removal of a rare tumor. Baby Virin, whose parents are residents of Noida, was born with a rare congenital tumor called Intrapericardial teratoma (arising from the surface of heart) which was detected while he was in his mother’s womb.

Baby Somya Tiwari, a seven-year-old girl, from Valsad, Gujarat, had her neck fixed at an almost 90 degrees angle after two consecutive surgeries failed to address her neck tilt caused by a neck muscle tumour. The presence of this tumor led to neck tilting and rotation which is called as Torticollis, also known as wry neck. However, in this case the muscle had calcified, and the collar bone and skull bone were united by a bony bar which had fixed her head to body without any movement.

A new born baby was successfully operated on, barely 48 hours after birth at Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai for an extremely rare blood vessel abnormality in the brain, called Vein of Galen Malformation (VOGM). Seen in 1 in 3 million births, the malformation was detected at the antenatal stage during the mother’s pregnancy. Endovascular embolization is the first option for treatment and all preparations were made for emergency surgery on the baby after birth. Antenatal MRI was performed and the baby was electively delivered through C-section.

Apollo Hospitals has launched an Institute of Hernia Surgery and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction at Chennai which is a comprehensive specialty centre for hernia care. The Institute of Hernia Surgery and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction at Chennai was inaugurated by Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Thiru. MA. Subramaniam.