Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery

Monday, September 14, 2009

Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery
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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.

Earlier, patients had limited choices when it came to surgery i.e. conventional open surgery or laparoscopic with multiple incisions, laparoscopic surgery being the preferred choice. However now with the introduction of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, patients can undergo surgical procedures with just a single incision (approx half an inch) in the belly button and that too with a number of benefits over conventional procedures such as less pain, quicker recovery, less blood loss, less complications and minimal scarring and helping patients getting back to work faster.

“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.

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

Spinal Cord Tumor: Causes Symptoms and Treatements

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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

Kinds of Liver Cancers diagnosis and Treatements
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