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], 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
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, announced the expansion of their Heart and Lung Transplantation unit by appointing Dr Kumud Kumar Dhital and Dr Srinivas Rajagopala.
Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, announced the expansion of their Heart
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