MILESTONES

MEDICAL :

• First donor incompatible kidney transplant performed at Apollo Hospitals Chennai using technique of Column adsorption of blood group antibodies.
• Endovascular Aneurysm repair for 2 large aneurysms simultaneously performed at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
• First American underwent a successful Heart Transplant at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai ! Ronald Lemmer, 65 years old, was transplanted with the heart of a 36-year-old accident victim in an eight-hour surgery by Dr Paul Ramesh at Apollo Hospitals Chennai. In the process, two records were also created. The patient was not only the first U.S. citizen to undergo a heart transplant in India, but he was also the oldest person to undergo a heart transplant in the country.
• Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi successfully completed 200 Liver Transplant cases of Pakistani patients, in November 2011. With a success rate of over 90%, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals has created a milestone in the history of medicine by becoming the first hospital in the country to reach the 200 mark for patients from a single foreign country.
• Apollo Bramwell Hospital, Mauritius in conjunction with Global Biohealth Solutions, launched the Apollo Bramwell Stem Cell Therapy Program.
• The Apollo Hospitals, one of the six centres in India to be part of a global trial on using drug-eluting bio-resorbable stents, are the first in Chennai to use the product. The next generation in devices that relieve blood vessel blocks will dissolve within a couple of years. The device works like a regular stent by restoring blood flow to a clogged vessel. It also contains a drug that is slowly released to help the healing process.
• Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital Launches Eastern India's first dedicated comprehensive Bone Marrow Transplant Unit.
• Apollo Hospitals Group has performed more than 775 solid organ transplants for the year, 2010, making it one of the World’s Busiest Liver Transplant Centres. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi has also completed over 500 liver transplants in February, 2011.
• Apollo Hospitals Chennai completed 10,000 Coronary Angioplasties in 2009, including many refined procedures like Multi-Vessel Angioplasty, Left Main Angioplasty and Bifurcation Lesions.
• Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Chennai added successfully conducted exultant Micro vascular free tissue transfer and Aesthetic surgeries on more than 1000 patients by the end of March 2011.
• World's 1st iPod Navigation Hip Resurfacing Surgery was successfully performed at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Chennai.
• Latest M guard stent technology, a specially designed Mesh covered stent, was used to save a 27 year old man from an acute heart attack ! Apollo Hospital first to introduce the technology in Chennai !
• Centre for liver disease and transplantation, Apollo Hospitals Chennai has completed 100 liver transplantations in less than 4 years with over 90% success rate, creating a milestone.
• Apollo performed an unprecedented revolution in orthopedics by equalizing limbs and deformity correction by the llizarov procedure.
• In 1995, Apollo Hospitals performed its first Bone Marrow Transplantation, as well as the first multi organ transplant in the country.
• First private healthcare provider to perform a heart transplant in 1995.
• Performed over 7,50,000 major surgeries and over 10,00,000 minor surgical procedures with exceptional clinical outcomes.
• Largest series of aortic valve replacement with stentless heart valve bioprosthesis performed.
• Conducted over 90,000 cardiac surgeries - one of only 10 hospitals in the world to achieve these volumes. Achieved a 99.6% success rate in cardiac bypass surgeries, over 91% of which were beating heart surgeries.
• By 1992, Apollo Hospitals introduced Artery Stenting for the first time in India.
• Introduced cutting edge procedures like off-pump and beating-heart surgery, either by thoracotomy (minimal invasive access) or classical sternotomy, trans-radial angioplasty and stenting, mitral valve replacement.
• Pioneers of the Preventive health check programmes in India and performed 3 million checks to date.
• Pioneered open heart surgeries and cardiac catheterization, in the early 80’s.

First successful:

• Pediatric liver transplant in India
• Adult liver transplant in India
• Cadaver liver transplant in India
• Transplant in acute liver failure in India
• Liver-kidney transplant in India were all performed by Apollo Hospitals.
• Apollo Hospitals was the first Indian hospital group to introduce Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for cancer treatment.
• Pioneered orthopedic procedures like hip and knee replacements, the Illizarov procedure and the Birmingham hip re-surfacing technique.
• Revolutionary Ceramic Coated Knee Replacement was performed for the 1st time in South India at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
• Resorbable screws were used for the first time in India at Apollo Hospitals Chennai to correct congenital spine problem of a six-year-old child from Tanzania.
• An innovative Orthopedic procedure was performed for the first time in India at Apollo Hospitals Chennai - leading to pain free postoperative recovery after shoulder surgery. The Orthopaedic team at Apollo Hospital, Chennai successfully performed an Arthroscopic Brachial Plexus Catheterization on a young lady patient.
• The Paediatric Cardiac team at the new Apollo Children’s Hospital successfully performed a complicated surgery to treat a complete AV canal defect in a 4–month old Nigerian baby in 2009.
• India's first keyhole multiple bypass surgery was conducted at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi. It took less than four hours to perform the scarless surgery, without cutting any bone of the patient. This technique uses a combination of small holes in the chest and a small incision, made indirectly over the coronary artery to be bypassed. It is often performed using robotics and video-imaging, which help the surgeon operate in a small area.
• An 8 year old Omani child with aortoarteritis and uncontrollable hypertension with impending kidney failure and intestinal gangrene was successfully managed by a simultaneous vascular reconstructive surgery on the narrowed arteries supplying both the kidneys and the intestines at Apollo hospitals chennai .Such simultaneous bypass and reconstruction in a young child was a first for India and only a few such procedures had been done worldwide.
• First donor incompatible kidney transplant performed at Apollo Hospitals Chennai using technique of Column adsorption of blood group antibodies.

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY:

• First to install the most modern diagnostic and surgical infrastructure like the 320-Slice CT Scan and many others.
• First hospital group to bring the 320 Slice CT- Angio scan system and the 64 Slice CT-Angio scan system to India.
• First hospital group in South-East Asia to introduce the 16 Slice PET-CT Scan.
• Equipped with the largest and most sophisticated sleep laboratory in the world.
• Introduced the most advanced CyberKnife® Robotic Radio Surgery System in Asia Pacific, the world’s first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter accuracy.
• Novalis Tx™ Radiotherapy & Radiosurgery , one of the most precise, non-invasive and fastest treatments available for cancerous and non-cancerous conditions of the entire body was launched at Apollo Cancer Institute Hyderabad in 2009. Treatments are delivered from outside the body to destroy tumors without an incision. This protects the patient’s healthy tissue, so patients can avoid hospitalization, lengthy recovery periods and many of the complications often associated with conventional surgery.
• Full Field Digital Mammography with Tomosynthesis (3D) system, First-of-it's-kind in South Asia was launched at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
• Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals launched Novalis Tx - an advanced form of radiotherapy and radiosurgery that offers a versatile combination of advanced technologies for treatment of tumors and lesions.