Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed yet another break-through surgery that transformed a women’s life. Dr. Sajan K Hegde and his team successfully completed a fusionless scoliosis surgery on a female patient from the United States of America who was affected by idiopathic Scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine.

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has performed yet another innovative procedure that transformed a girl child’s life. Dr. Vijay Kishore Reddy and team successfully completed a corrective procedure on a 7-year-old girl who was affected by Discoid lateral meniscal tear, an abnormal condition in children.

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has introduced a new technique called the HIS-bundle-pacing procedure. Dr. A. M. Karthigesan, Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has used this new technique to treat patients with bradyarrhythmias. Traditional Pacemaker restores normal heartbeats in millions of people, but the widely using technique is placing the ventricular lead at the lower Right Ventricle which increases risk of atrial fibrillation, heart failure and mortality.

An 8 year old Omani child with aortoarteritis and uncontrollable hypertension with impending kidney failure and intestinal gangrene was successfully managed by a simultaneous vascular reconstructive surgery on the narrowed arteries supplying both the kidneys and the intestines.Such simultaneous bypass and reconstruction in a young child is a first for India and only a few such procedures have been done worldwide.

The seminar conducted by Apollo Hospitals, Chennai at Bangladesh opened up new perspectives in healthcare. Doctors including Dr.Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman, Consultant Urologist from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai demonstrated the latest surgical interventions using Da vinci Robotic Surgery system in the event organized by Global Telemedicine Company, Representative office of Apollo Hospitals in Bangladesh.

October 31, 2015

The camp and CME held at Mandalay, was conducted by Dr. K.Ramesh – Senior Robotic Urologist, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. The CME was organized in association with the Family Mandalar Hospital,Mandalay where more than 100 doctors attended the CME and more than 50 patients were benefited from the camp.