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Apollo Kolkata Achieves Major Breakthrough in Structural Heart Care with Successful TTVR Procedures

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Kolkata: Marking a significant advancement in structural heart interventions in Eastern India, Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata has successfully performed two consecutive Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (TTVR) procedures under the leadership of renowned Structural Heart Specialist and Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Sumanto Mukhopadhyay. The landmark procedures were performed on elderly and frail patients suffering from […]

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Narayana Health doctors treat two rare cases, help child become transfusion-free and clear brain cancer

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Kolkata: Doctors at Narayana Health have reported successful outcomes in two complex cases involving a seven-year-old boy with thalassemia and a 62-year-old man diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma. The child became free from regular blood transfusions following a haplo-cord transplant, while the older patient achieved complete disappearance of the disease after CAR T-cell therapy. Seven-year-old […]

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Eastern India’s First Robotic CRS With HIPEC Gives 42-Year-Old Ovarian Cancer Patient a New Lease of Life

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Howrah: In a significant advancement in cancer care in Eastern India, Narayana Hospital, Howrah has performed the region’s first Robotic Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) combined with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) for a 42-year-old woman suffering from advanced ovarian cancer. The patient, who was diagnosed with Stage IIIC ovarian cancer, was discharged just three days after the […]

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BM Birla Heart Hospital Achieves Southeast Asia’s First Retrieval of 7-Year-Old Leadless Pacemaker

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Kolkata : In a landmark cardiac procedure, BM Birla Heart Hospital has successfully retrieved a leadless pacemaker that had been implanted for more than seven years and eight months — the first such documented case in Southeast Asia, including India. The complex procedure was performed by Anil Mishra, Director of Cardiology at the hospital, marking […]

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Narayana Hospital, Chunavati Saves Life of 760-Gram Premature Newborn

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Howrah:In a remarkable demonstration of advanced neonatal care in Howrah, doctors at Narayana Hospital, Chunavati successfully saved the life of a critically premature baby girl born at just 27 weeks of gestation, weighing only 760 grams. The baby was delivered at Narayana Hospital, Chunavati, and developed severe breathing difficulties immediately after birth. She required mechanical […]

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Kolkata Hospital Performs World’s First Kidney Transplant in Rare Factor VII Deficiency Case

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Kolkata: In a groundbreaking medical feat, Narayana RN Tagore Hospital, Mukundapur, has successfully performed a uniquely challenging kidney transplant on a young man from Bhutan suffering from severe Factor VII deficiency — one of the rarest genetic bleeding disorders in the world, occurring in just one in five million people. This is the first successful […]

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