World Cancer Day is celebrated to honor numerous men and women who have recovered and fallen to the issues related to Cancer. It is not that we have not seen any light of hope. Medical science has progressed, and we have become more united to fight against cancer. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has made us […]
Post arrival of the Pandemic COVID 19, the world is in mayhem with a deliberate battle against the deadly spreading virus. With the medical practitioners and other essential workers exhibiting undying patience, there is a renewed hope of recovery. Despite the unanticipated recession, job loss, and mental illnesses taking over, the general public has shown […]
Combined heart and lung transplant surgery is one of the major and rare transplantation procedure where both deceased heart and lungs are transplanted with the healthy ones of a recently deceased donor. This transplantation surgery is performed as a last resort when all the other treatments procedures fail to improve to quality of life or […]
Types of Heart Diseases & Treatment for Heart Diseases by Dr AGK. Gokhale The heart is the fist-sized pump that restlessly keeps the human body going. And obviously, any disease to this mighty organ can be highly detrimental to our health resulting in death when not treated as soon as possible. No wonder heart disease […]
Every year millions of patients both young and adult, are succumbing to the cardiovascular diseases. Fortunately medical science has evolved to provide advanced and sophisticated treatment procedures to successfully treat the heart related conditions. Not every heart condition needs a traditional open heart surgery because there are more advanced, simple procedures like minimally invasive keyhole […]
Heart Transplantation is the gold standard for treating patients with end-stage heart diseases around the world. Despite being a developing country, our Indian doctors are second to none in performing successful heart transplant procedures. And with staggering 36 successful heart transplant surgeries to date, Padma Shri Awardee Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale is one is […]
The heart is the engine of the human body. Every minute it pumps more than 4.5 litres of blood through our body, beating around 1000,000 times a day. It is amazingly resilient and the hardest working muscle in the human body that works like a clockwork despite all the hardships we subject our body to. […]
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure is known as a “silent disease” as signs and symptoms won’t be seen. However, this disease damages the body and may also cause heart disease. Utmost care must be taken if diagnosed with blood pressure and the patient should keep a track of its levels through checking blood […]
Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale is one of the best heart surgeons in India who has performed India’s first heart-kidney combined transplant. He has also achieved fame through performing heart transplant for a 69 year old person, the oldest man to undergo heart transplant in India. If you are determined to get a heart transplant […]
The most underrated organ in our body is the heart. It is the central part of what keeps us going – it pumps blood day in and day out, round the clock, so that the rest of your body can perform the way it is supposed to. For such an important organ, the amount of […]
