Chennai: Kauvery Hospital Main Alwarpet, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals successfully performed a laser-assisted complex angioplasty on a 58-year-old man from Papua New Guinea. The patient, who.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 10 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, ties up with Aster Med City Kochi to improve Heart and Lung Transplants in South India. Aster Med City is a quaternary healthcare centre in Kochi and one of the largest in South India. It is the flagship hospital of Aster DM Healthcare, a healthcare conglomerate. Through this association with Kauvery Hospital, the organization shall have access to an expert clinical team from Kauvery Hospital to perform heart and lung transplants at their state-of-art facility in Kochi. Speaking about the association with Aster Medcity, Dr Aravindan Selvaraj, Co-founder and Executive Director Kauvery Hospital Chennai says, "Organ transplants have been gaining momentum gradually in India, yet Heart and Lung Transplants are still lagging behind. Some of the challenges are the non-willingness by families of the deceased to vo
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, successfully treated a 33-year-old woman with heart failure related to long standing blood clots in her lungs. The reason was a rare autoimmune blood clotting disorder called APLA (Antiphospholipid) syndrome. In this condition, the immune system creates antibodies that attack blood vessels. These antibodies cause blood clots to form in the arteries and veins all over the body. Four years ago, the woman approached with complaints of swelling in the leg. There was a delay by 3 to 4 months in diagnosis of blood clots in lungs prior to the evaluation at Kauvery, and she had chronic clots in her abdomen and lungs by this time. After a thorough examination she was diagnosed with the APLA syndrome and managed with medications. "The medication, however, was not completely effective in dissolving the existing clot
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): 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 60-year-old man with a rare vascular anomaly - Aneurysm of Persistent Sciatic Artery. This Sciatic artery arises from the fetal aorta and runs on the back side of the buttock and lower limb and is the main blood supply to the leg. It disappears soon after development of the Femoral Artery, which is the new permanent artery that carries blood to the leg in later life. The Sciatic Artery does not persist in adults. When it is present, it is prone for complications because during sitting, the artery gets compressed and damaged resulting in ballooning (aneurysm) and clots. A 60 year old man visited the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Kauvery Hospital with severe pain, a pulsation in the right buttock and blackish discoloration of the right big toe. He
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, successfully performed a heart transplant on a 35 year old woman diagnosed with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart muscle becomes thickened (hypertrophied) making it harder for the heart to pump blood. The heart was retrieved from a brain dead patient at Vellore Government Hospital. As part of this life saving mission a green corridor was established from Vellore GH to Kauvery Hospital Chennai and the organ was transported within 1 hour and 15 minutes. The woman aged 35 years old from Vijayawada had a history of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy which was diagnosed in 2010. Four years later she underwent a successful pregnancy however her symptoms of frequent fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath continued and she was carefully monitored throughout the pregnancy phas