HOSPITALS

Clinic Review

THE STRUCTURE OF THE APOLLO HOSPITAL

The Apollo Hospitals network is the most famous group of private medical institutions in India, whose history date back to 1983. As the first Indian private clinic, Apollo has revolutionized the country's healthcare system. Today it is the No. 1 provider of world-class medical services in Asia. Strengths of the Apollo network are attention to improving the quality of medical services, reasonable prices, the availability of unique equipment of the latest generation (Robot da Vinci, Novalis Tx, CyberKnife, etc.), as well as active participation in research activities and the development of radically new methods of treatment. It was in Apollo that for the first time in India many of the innovations were introduced. Apollo also established a Proton Cancer Center,which is unique in the country. The experience of the clinic is best described by figures - more than 50 million patients from 140 countries of the world received modern treatment in Apollo.

Features of the Clinic

CARDIOLOGY IN APOLLO HOSPITAL

The Apollo Chennai Clinic is recognized as the best center for heart surgery in India. By 2013, 125,000 coronary angioplasty procedures were performed at the Apollo Chennai Hospital (only ten hospitals in the world achieved such volumes). Also, the clinic performed more than 25,000 coronary artery bypass procedures. The Department of Heart and Lung Transplantation at Chennai Hospital performed more than 64 heart & lung transplantations. Of these, 35 heart transplants, 29 lung transplants, 11 complex both heart & lung transplants. The percentage of survival after cardiac transplant in Apollo Chennai is 87%, lung transplantation is 67%. The clinic has vast experience in bypassing the coronary arteries, operations on the heart valves, pediatric heart surgery, heart transplantation in adults and children. More than 99.6% of cardiac bypass operations in Apollo are performed with a working heart, that is, without connection to the device of artificial circulation, which provides a faster and easier rehabilitation after surgery. Doctors of the clinic are pioneers of Asian medicine in surgical intervention with angina pectoris, in carrying out laser angioplasty, as well as percutaneous transluminal sedation of myocardium.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF APOLLO CLINICS NETWORK IN CARDIAC SURGERY:

Chennai Hospital successfully completed India's first transcatheter replacement of the mitral valve; At the Apollo Children's Clinic, Chennai was the first in India to have a successful combined cardiac and tracheal operation in an 11-month-old child; The first in the country replacement of the aortic valve by the TAVR method was carried out at the Chennai clinic; Apollo Chennai Hospital successfully performed a unique unified operation for transplantation of the heart and liver in Asia (only a few clinics of the world managed to do this); Apollo children's clinic successfully performed a heart surgery in a 2-day-old baby, and a pacemaker implanted a 97-year-old patient; Apollo clinics were the first in India to use the 320 Slice CT-Angio technology and 64 Slice CT-Angio scanning system.

TRANSPLANTOLOGY AT THE APOLLO CLINIC IN INDIA

The Apollo Clinic in Chennai is one of the largest organ transplant centers in the world. More than 700 transplants take place here every year. In Apollo, liver and kidney transplantation, eye cornea, heart, intestine, pancreas can be performed. Moreover, Apollo also carries out organ transplantation in children. The general experience of the clinic in the field of transplantology has practically reached 20 years. The average percentage of successful transplant operations is 90%. Complex work of doctors is conducted with both the recipient and the organ donor, before and after the operation. A whole team of specialists works with each patient: a transplant surgeon, a nephrologist, a gastroenterologist, an anesthesiologist, an intensive care specialist, and a specialist in pediatrics (if the operation is performed on a child). Apollo hospitals have all the necessary equipment for organ transplantation from a living donor, as well as transplanting a corpse organ.

TREATMENT OF CANCER IN THE APOLLO CLINICS

Each patient, getting to the clinic of Apollo Chennai, receives a personalized consultation of the oncology council, which includes doctors from different specialties from different clinics and countries. Thus, the most reasonable decisions are made regarding the choice of diagnostic and therapeutic options. To conduct an accurate diagnosis in the Apollo Chennai clinic, you can: Philips Gemini TF PET-CT, modern MRI devices, 64-slice PET-CT, multi-detector axial CT, 3D mammography, Liquid Biopsy (revolutionary test that determines cancer by drop of blood) analysis of tumor tissue. In the unique for India Proton cancer center of the Apollo clinic, effective treatment with radiotherapy methods is possible. In Apollo, such cutting-edge installations as Cyber Knife, Novalis and TrueBeam are available. With an operable tumor, surgery can be performed using the Da Vinci Robot, which significantly reduces risks and speeds up the recovery process after surgery. In the Apollo hospitals network, bone marrow transplantation is also successfully performed. The experience of Apollo doctors is more than 700 successful transplants. A bone marrow transplant can be performed at the Apollo Chennai hospital. It is important that the clinic has strict norms of infection control, which are crucial for patients after this procedure (most complications arise precisely because of infections). Chennai is possible as an autologous (transplanting its own stem cells), and allogeneic transplantation (donor cells from a related and unrelated donor).