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Clinical Apollo Consultants’
2019 Telemedicine CSR Academics Recognition Research
Excellence Homecare Achievements

Apollo Hospitals, Guwahati per "Medtronics" data base, this was first such
indigenous procedure. The patient had presented
• Navigated percutaneous fenestrated cannulated with headache, vomiting, and cough due to
pedicle screw rod fixation and simultaneous recurrent posterior fossa with brain stem
augmented vertebroplasty was performed compression. He was operated three years ago for
successfully in an elderly frail lady. The patient had posterior fossa benign cyst.
a history of severe LBA with recent fall. She
sustained multi-level osteoporotic vertebral Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
compression fractures with with dorso-lumbar
acute kyphosis and had presented with weakness • Hip replacement was successfully performed in a
of legs with autonomic disturbances secondary to 98-year-old lady
cauda equina syndrome. The patient recovered
well in post-operative period with good
neurological status. This is the first of such
innovative spinal fixation system in north-east
India, performed in MISS (Minimally Invasive Spine
Surgery) protocol.

• Neuro navigation guided minimally invasive orbital
tumor decompression via limited lateral
orbitotomy was successfully performed to treat a
34-year-old male patient with history of left eye
proptosis with orbital bruit.

• Dominant side FTOZ skull based craniotomy with Hip replacement was successfully performed
Simpson grade 1 tumor excision and reconstruction • Obturator bypass revascularization of lower limb
post tumor embolization under GA, was was successfully performed
successfully performed for a middle-aged female
patient, having symptoms of gradual deteriorating
sensorium and dimness of vision. This was the first • Liver transplant was successfully performed at
of its kind in procedure in the North East region. Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore in an 18-year-old
female patient suffering from Wilson's disease.
• An elderly male patient with injury to back with
paraplegia, with advanced Parkinson's disease and • A 15-year old boy with severe blood loss due to a
ankylosing spondylitis was successfully managed. critical stab injury on the left side of the neck was
Percutaneous titanium pedicle screw rod fixation stabilized and successfully treated through an
followed by distraction and decompression of the innovative procedure -Coil Embolization.
spinal cord was performed using "Make in India"
implants. This was first such case in the region. • An 80-year-old post- CABG patient, with recurrent
syncope, heart failure with QRS duration of 180
• A complex surgery to remove a tumor from the msec was successfully managed. An HIS-CRTD was
heart of a 54-year-old female patient through implanted, achieving a QRS duration of 90 msec.
minimally invasive approach was successfully Patient improved significantly with no subsequent
performed for the first time in Northeast India. The episodes of syncope.
large tumor was situated inside the left chamber of
the heart and was occluding a heart valve.
• Robotic bariatric surgery was successfully
performed on a 49-year-old female patient with
• A young child successfully underwent hypertension, dyslipidemia, borderline diabetes
programmable cysto peritoneal shunt placement,
with programmed pressure setting of 45 mmHg. As and BMI of 43.

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