Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery now a Reality
Friday, September 11, 2009
Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) has now been made routine at Wockhardt Hospital, Cunningham Road, Bangalore .The team led by Dr. Aashish Shah, Consultant Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals, has performed 10 Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgeries which include Cholecystectomies (removal of the gallbladder) and Appendicectomies (removal of the appendix) with remarkable success and getting patients back to their normal life faster.
In Laparoscopic surgery, which is also known as minimally invasive surgery, the surgeons uses instruments and video cameras to perform the surgery with 3- 4 ports (incisions). The instruments are then entered into the patients’ body which helps the surgeon perform the surgery. Now taking Laparoscopic surgery to the next level, Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) has been introduced. This requires making a single incision near the belly button of the patient and performing the surgery through one port. Surgeons at Wockhardt Hospitals are now routinely practicing this surgery which gives immense benefit to the patients. The patients can now experience pain less surgery, less infection post surgery, reduced post operative discomfort and early recovery. The end result is the patients can walk back faster with a very short stay at the hospital.
SILS is an advanced minimally invasive surgical procedure in which the surgery is done through a single entry point i.e. the navel. A 20mm incision at the umbilicus is all that is required for the surgery. A scope is inserted that can be moved around in the body and return images form various angles giving the surgeons a larger field of vision for the surgery and the instruments used to perform the surgery are flexible thereby enabling extra reach and maneuverability.
“SILS is the next big step in laparoscopic surgery worldwide. It offers a huge cosmetic advantage and also enables much quicker recovery for the patient compared to conventional lap surgery. For the patient it is extremely appealing to be offered surgery through a single small cut, than through multiple incisions”.
SILS is an excellent option for all patients who need laparoscopic surgery more so for uncomplicated Gallstones, Appendicitis and Hernia operations. At Wockhardt Hospital, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, laparoscopic surgery is used as a routine, where SILS is being offered to all suitable patients.
SILS is an excellent option for all patients who need laparoscopic surgery more so for uncomplicated Gallstones, Appendicitis and Hernia operations. At Wockhardt Hospital, Cunningham Road, as a routine, SILS is being offered to all suitable patients.
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Internal Medicine Specialty Doctors at Bangalore
Monday, September 7, 2009
| Centre | Department/Specialty | Name of the doctor |
| BG | Internal Medicine | Dr. Sheela Chakravarthy |
| BG | Internal Medicine | Dr. K N Manjunath |
| BG | Internal Medicine | Dr. Manisha Malhotra |
| CNG | Internal Medicine | Dr. K N Manjunath |
| CNG | Internal Medicine | Dr. M R Nalini |
| BG | Chest Medicine & Pulmonology | Dr. Ravindra Mehta |
| CNG | Chest Medicine & Pulmonology | Dr. K S Satish |
| BG | Nephrology | Dr. R Sreedhara |
| BG | Urology | Dr. Mahendra Jain |
| BG | Urology | Dr. Dinesh Vaidya |
| BG | Endocrinology | Dr. C V Harinarayan |
| BG | Endocrinology | Dr. Geetha Bhat |
| CNG | Endocrinology | Dr. Somashekar Reddy |
| BG | Pediatrics | Dr. Vandana Rao |
| BG | Pediatrics | Dr. Janaki Narayan |
| BG | Pediatric Surgeon | Dr. Gowri Shankar |
| BG | Vascular Surgeon | Dr. K N Nagabhushan |
| BG | Oral & Maxillofacial surgery | Dr. Sunil Vasudev |
| BG | Oral & Maxillofacial surgery | Dr. Sandhya Ramanujam |
| BG | ENT | Dr. Sheelu Srinivas |
| BG | Preventive Health Check | Dr. Laxmi Prasad |
| BG | Radiology | Dr. Raghav |
BG: Bannerghata Road Branch
CNG :Cunningham Road Branch
For appointments and Consultations please email enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
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Digestive and Gastroentrology Doctors at Bangalore
| Bannerghata Road | Digestive Care | Dr. M G Bhat | Consultant Surgical Gastroenterology and Laparoscopy |
| Bannerghata Road | Digestive Care | Dr. Shabeer Ahmed | Consultant Surgical Gastroenterology,Laparoscopy & Minimal Access Surgery |
| Bannerghata Road | General Surgery | Dr. Abid Sattar | Consultant Gastroenterology |
| Bannerghata Road | Gastroentrology | Dr. Lorence Peter | Consultant Gastroenterology |
| Bannerghata Road | Gastroenterology & Laparoscopy | Dr. Kenneth D Cruz | Consultant Surgical, Gastroenterology & Laparoscopy |
| Cunnigham Road | Gastroentrology | Dr. Abid Sattar | Consultant Gastroenterology |
| Cunnigham Road | General Surgery / GI & Laproscopic Surgery | Dr. Aashish R Shah | Consultant Gastrointestinal & Laproscopic Surgeon |
For Appointments email us at enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
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Paired Kidney transplants save two lives
Swapan Kumar Basu and Ratan Das, strangers till a few weeks back, got a fresh lease of life in a rare case of spousal paired kidney transplants at a Wockhardt Hospital and Kidney Institute at kolkata.
Basu, 59, had suffered renal failure and was undergoing dialysis for the last three years.
Doctors had advised a kidney transplant but the blood group of his family members did not match with his.His wife Suchitra, 57, wanted to donate one of her kidneys to him, but her blood group (B negative) didn’t match his.
“I didn’t want to buy a kidney from a commercial donor and there seemed to be no hope for me,” recalled Basu, who was undergoing treatment at Wockhardt Hospitals and Kidney Institute.
Meanwhile Mr Ratan Das, a 43-year-old businessman from Howrah, was also undergoing dialysis since November 2008. He was facing a similar problem — his B negative blood group was a mismatch for his wife, Barnali, 35, whose blood group is A positive.
Barnali approached the doctors with a request for paired transplant.
“It was an ideal situation and after getting the necessary clearance from the state health department, we went ahead with the transplants,” said Arup Ratan Dutta, the chief nephrologist at WockhardtHospitals who performed the surgery along with urologist Shivaji Basu and transplant surgeon Sasanka Saha.
The transplants took place on July 28 and the couples are out of hospital. “They can go back to work in three months,” Dutta said. “The transplants saved two families from financial, emotional and physical drain,” he added.
According to doctors, tissue matching, although preferable, is not mandatory because of advanced immuno-suppresive drugs. “Tissue mismatch is not as significant as it used to be. So, the number of spousal donations is going up,” said Dutta.
Urologist Shivaji Basu from Wockhardt hoped this case would motivate others to opt for paired kidney transplants.
Urologist Shivaji Basu from Wockhardt hoped this case would motivate others to opt for paired kidney transplants.
Doctors say renal transplant for patients whose blood groups do not match with near relatives becomes a serious problem as cadaver organ transplant is yet to become popular here.
source:Telegraph
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Spinal Cord Tumor: Causes Symptoms and Treatements
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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11 Hour Liver Resection Surgery to remove Cancerous Tumor
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Surgeons at Wockhardt Hospitals,Mulund ,Mumbai led by Dr S.K Mathur performed a major liver resection which took 11 hours when they operated on a 58 year old man to remove a cancerous tumor.
Mr R. Jain, a 58-year-old male from Jodhpur, Rajasthan was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his liver (Hepatocellular Carcinoma- HCC) in October 2006. What followed the diagnosis was a liver resection involving removal of a part of the liver containing the tumor.
Almost two-and-a-half years later, a follow-up ultrasound and a CAT scan of the liver revealed the presence of three new tumors, one of which was extending dangerously behind the IVC – Inferior Venacava, the big vein in the abdomen that runs behind the liver, carrying blood from the lower half of the body to the heart. Owing to the dangerous location of the tumor, doctors whom the patient was consulting advised against a second surgery, and had put him on palliative treatment in the form of TACE (Transarterial chemoembolisation) -- a procedure in which the blood supply to a tumor is blocked and chemotherapy is administered directly into the tumor.
While two of the three nodules could be treated with TACE, the nodule close to the IVC could not be embolised (blocked), thereby causing him untold mental distress and helplessness. That’s when the patient decided to consult doctors at the Wockhardt Hospitals’ Department of Hepato Biliary- Pancreatic Diseases and Liver Transplantation
“Since the tumor was limited only to the liver and had not spread anywhere else in the body, we took an informed decision to perform a Right Hepatectomy and remove the tumor behind the IVC,” recalls Dr. Surendra Kumar Mathur, Senior Consultant Surgeon, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, Wockhardt Hospitals who successfully headed the 11-hour surgery.
This was a a technically challenging surgery since liver as such is densely adhered to other organs in the vicinity like the diaphragm, colon and the duodenum, and more crucially, a first surgery had already been done on the patient’s liver. The patient required three units of blood, was shifted from the ICU two days post operation, and was immediately started on orals. Patient recovery was uneventful and he was discharged on the sixth day of the surgery.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Jain said, “When I was told in the other hospital that the liver tumor has recurred and this time only palliative treatment can be administered and no surgery, we had almost lost all hope and became averse to any kind of treatment. I just took this as another decision of God and to take things as it comes. That’s when we encountered Dr. Mathur and his team who came as a miracle to our lives, giving me a new lease of life with this miraculous surgery.”
Liver tumors and complexities of re-resection surgery
Major or complex resections of the liver are performed mainly for malignant tumors of the liver which can be either primary, i.e. arising from the liver like hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or metastasis, i.e. they originate in some other organ and then seed the liver.
World over, though the recurrence of HCC liver tumor after first surgery is reported to be around 30 percent over five years, only one third of these cases are known to be retreated successfully. Commonly, many surgeons choose to avoid an excision surgery of a liver tumor very close to the IVC due to a possible life-threatening bleeding of the IVC during the surgery.
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Types of Liver Cancers: Diagnosis, Treatements and Cure
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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Evening Clinic OPD Doctors Schedule at Bannerghata Road ,Bangalore
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunset Clinic – bringing healthcare solution after work hours!
If you are a working professional and finding it difficult to manage between your busy office schedule and the need to visit a doctor, either for yourself or your family, we bring you the solution. Wockhardt Hospitals launches Sunset Clinic designed exclusively for those who find it difficult to make it to the doctor’s appointment during working hours.
Keeping the working professionals in mind and the need to keep them healthy, Wockhardt Hospitals extends its timelines through the Sunset Clinic. The clinic will be open between 5pm to 8 pm and is located across the 4 Wockhardt Hospitals centres – Bannerghatta Road, Cunningham Road, Rajajinagar and Nagarbhavi.
Dedicated consultants across the specialties – cardiac care, bone & joint, brain & spine and minimal access surgery along with a few associate specialties ------ will be available for consultation at the Sunset Clinic across the 4 locations. The clinic will also be backed by a set of trained nurses and paramedics to assist the consultants.
Now whether you are a working professional or have difficulty meeting the doctor during the daytime, there is no reason to worry, we make things easier for you with Sunset Clinic. All you have to do is give us a call at 080- 6636666 and get your appointment or just send us a mail to enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net and we shall take care of the rest.
Below is the detailed Sunset Clinic Consultants directory for your reference. Now without intervening in your working hours, we will still ensure you a healthy and active living
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