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Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet shortness of breath (grade II), orthopnea and
severe calcific aortic stenosis.

• A 25-year old male patient was successfully
managed for primary posterior mediastinal • Three cadaveric liver transplants and one cadaveric
liposarcoma, a very rare tumour kidney transplant were done successfully in a span
of six days.

• PIPAC (pressurized intra peritoneal aerosolized
chemotherapy), a novel technique of chemotherapy • A newer technology, VITEK 2 for automatic
delivering system was successfully adopted for a bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility
patient diagnosed with adenocarcinoma testing was introduced.

• Diagnosis of a rare condition, 'Invasive Fungal • A 63-year-old female patient diagnosed with
Infection with Scattered Granunomatous complete heart block and with Single Vessel
Inflamation Demateceus (Pigmented) Fungal Disease, successfully underwent physiological
Organisms' in a 23 year old male patient. The pacing of left bundle. This procedure was the first
patient had complaints of headache since 2 months of its kind in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
and the MRI brain revealed peripheral enhancing
space occupying lesion in left temporal lobe. The Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
patient underwent Left Frontotemporal
Craniotomy and Total Excision of the Lesion. Post-
operatively he was treated with antifungal • Alcohol Septal Ablation (ASA) procedure was
medications and did not have any neurological successfully performed by the cardiac sciences
deficit at the time of discharge. team, on a 35-year-old male patient who presented
with breathlessness on exertion, palpitation and
chest discomfort for last two months. The
• A 60-year-old patient with carcinoma of gall
bladder was successfully treated with procedure was done for the first time in the state
Cytoreduction and HIPEC. of Orissa.
• Intra cranial stenting successfully performed in a
• Right Parietal Craniotomy-Interparietal Sulcal 53-year-old male patient. The stent used for this
approach was successfully performed on a 38- patient was specially designed for brain arteries
year-old male patient diagnosed with Meiningeoma and was recently launched in India. This was the
WHO – II. first such case in eastern part of India where
neuro-specific stent (Credo stent with neuro speed
balloon) was used.
Apollo Hospitals, Vizag

• Limb salvage surgery with megaprosthesis implant
successfully performed in a 13-year-old male
diagnosed with Osteosarcoma of lower end of right
femur.

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) was
successfully performed in a 68-year-old male
patient, with a history of CAD, post CABG, post
PTCA, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, APD with
Credo stent with neuro speed balloon

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