Hospitals

Chennai: Athulya, India’s largest Assisted Living and leading home-healthcare service provider, hosted a medical conference in the city recently to highlight the need for increased awareness on Geriatric Care. Medical experts from eminent hospitals in the city attended the conference.Inaugurating the event Dr. R. Karthik Narayan, Managing Director, Athulya said, …

Chennai, 26th April, 2022: MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of the Chennai, today announced that it had successfully performed a Mitral valve replacement on a 38-year-old patient with a MITRIS valve- for the very first time in the country. The surgery was successfully performed on 19th February 2022. …

Chennai 26th April, 2022: A multi-disciplinary team of specialist at Apollo Hospitals Chennai, Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals, performed a remarkable surgery on a 50-year-old Bangladeshi man to remove a rare recurrent chest wall Chondroscarcoma tumour. The tumour was safely removed, and the chest wall was reconstructed using synthetic materials and back muscle tissue. …

A nationwide study funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and coordinated by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, has found that only a third of individuals with known diabetes in India have good control of diabetes, fewer than half have good control of blood pressure and LDL (bad) cholesterol, …

Chennai, April 20th, 2022: A 47-year-old man from Kolkata successfully underwent two-staged Robotic-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN) surgery to remove the tumors in both kidneys at Rela Hospital, a Multi-Speciality Quaternary Care Hospital at Chromepet, Chennai. The team of experts spearheaded by Dr. Vasantharaja Ramasamy performed the RAPN surgery and removed the …

A team of doctors from Medway Heart Institute, a tertiary cardiac centre at Medway Hospitals, apremier and integrated multi-specialty group of hospitals located in Kodambakkam, Chennai, performed an extremely challenging Aortic Dissection surgery on a 32-year-old man with kidney failure.  Patient history and line of treatment: The patient, Rajkumar hailing from Tiruvannamalai, …

Chennai, April 12th, 2022: Apollo Hospitals Chennai has announced the successful completion of robotics cardiac surgery on the oldest patient in India at its dedicated Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery Unit in Greams road. Dr. MM. Yusuf and team has created a milestone by performing the Robotic assisted Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery …

Chennai, April 12th, 2022: The cardiac team in Kumaran Hospitals & Rela Institute, Kilpauk performed the first multi vessel coronary angioplasty using ROTA – PRO which was recently launched in the country. It is the first procedure in the country performed on an elderly woman who happens to be the oldest in the Tamil …

Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, today announced the successful treatment of a critically ill woman who had severe COVID illness complicating Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a serious neurological condition.  A woman aged 65 years, suffered from severe COVID illness …

Chennai: Gleneagles Global Health City (GGHC), a leading multi-speciality centre in Chennai launched an Advanced Comprehensive Parkinson’s Disease Clinic to exclusively treat Parkinson’s Disease by providing comprehensive care. The comprehensive Parkinson’s disease Centre will cater to comprehensive care and treatment of Parkinson’s disease along with state-of- the-art facility for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery.  The centre is equipped with high-end …