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Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 22 (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 for a 63-year-old with cardiogenic shock and a complex medical history. In a first-of-its-kind approach in India, the man was given Impella percutaneous left ventricular assist device (pVAD), to support his heart until he received a heart transplant. Impella, also known as the world's smallest percutaneous heart pump aids a failing heart in pumping blood from the ventricles to the rest of the body while allowing the heart to rest and recover. The 63-year-old man had a sudden onset of breathlessness and was admitted to a local hospital two weeks after an episode of severe chest pain, where he was managed for low blood pressure. During the same time, he had episodes of Ventricular Tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate that eventually leads to cardiac arrest), an
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, successfully performed a procedure to treat a 10-year-old boy with an enlarged ureter (the tube from Kidney which carries urine to the bladder)
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], December 28 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, successfully performed procedure to remove a malignant tumour in the kidney of a 6-year-old girl. The child presented with bloating and pain in the abdomen, and she was very weak. After examination, through imaging, PET and a biopsy she was diagnosed with Wilms' tumour, a type of kidney cancer that primarily affects children. Dr Sujay Susikar, Surgical Oncologist at Kauvery Hospital Chennai, said, "The 6-year-old female child presented with a mass abdomen. On imaging, we diagnosed it to be a kidney tumour measuring 8cm in size on the right side. A PET scan and biopsy indicated that it was a Metastatic Wilm's tumour i.e, cancer had spread to other parts of the body. When we initially treated her with chemotherapy, the tumour that had spread to the inferior vena cava, renal veins and muscles had sub