India’s pioneer Heart & Lung Transplant Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr AGK Gokhale talks on ‘enjoying limitations’ after coronary artery bypass surgery.Dr Gokhale performed the first successful human-to-human Heart Transplant in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He has performed many of his historic achievements such as the first Heart and Lung Transplant in Hyderabad, India and Minimal access cardiac surgeries. A heart surgeon by profession and a philanthropist by nature, Dr. Gokhale [...]
Dr GOKHALE CT ASSOCIATES CREATES A MILE STONE IN TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY IN ANDHRA PRADESH AND IN INDIA Dr Gokhale and his team did the first successful lung transplantation in Andhra Pradesh at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, taking the medical facilities at Hyderabad one more step forward. There is only one more center in India where such facilities for both lung and heart transplantations are available under one roof. [...]
Dr. Gokhale performed a rare surgery and implanted the first Heart Assist Device in Andhra Pradesh, thus saving an old heart patient’s life. The 63 year old homemaker, P.Kasturi from AS Rao Nagar received the first heart assist device, also called Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), under their new Ventricular Assist Device programme. This complicated surgery was performed on July 10 by a team of doctors headed by Dr AGK [...]
Heart Transplantation is a major heart surgery. It is considered for a patient with heart disease only when there is no other option to make him/her to live longer with quality life and without it person is unlikely to live longer than a few months. Classical indications for Heart Transplantation are: 1.NYHA class III or IV* heart failure refractory to medical and surgical therapy. Objective data would include a reduced [...]
Our Bureau, Mumbai Monday, April 16, 2012, 14:25 Hrs [IST] Yashoda Hospital recently organised and conducted a live international workshop on minimal access cardiac surgery also called minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MISC) at its academic hall. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the latest advances and improved outcomes of MISC thus taking it to the next level. Standard procedures for heart surgery can be most invasive as they involve [...]
Today a 69 year old man is walking out with a 24 old year old heart, writing a new record in the history of Heart Transplantation in India and creating hope for many patients with damaged hearts.. This patient was suffering from a heart disease- restrictive cardio-myopathy for the last 10 years. He had a defibrillator cum pacemaker put in USA. Despite the medication and pacemaker his condition continued to [...]
Speak of cheaper ways to treat heart ailments A.G.K. Ghokale, consultant cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon at Global Hospitals, asked physicians and practicing doctors to deliver cost-effective medial treatment to heart patients. Addressing the continuing Medical Education workshop, sponsored by Heart Failure Society of India and NTR University of Health Sciences, at KMC, here on Saturday, he said five to six potential and proven drugs were available for treating heart ailments [...]
Seminar on “Live 100 Years and Beyond” on January 27, 2011 at 5.00 p.m. at Surana Udyog Auditorium, Federation House. Now-a-days Heart diseases especially Ischemic heart disease cripples and kills tens of thousands of people all over India every year. It has now assumed epidemic proportions. Heart diseases in our region grew by 300% in the last 30 years and are still growing by 2-3% every year, one million people [...]
