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(L-R) Dr Sunil Rao, Group COO Sahyadri Hospitals,
Heart Transplant Surgeon Dr Manoj Durairaj and
Chairman Dr Charudutt Apte
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PUNE: Sahyadri
Group of Hospitals has opened a state-of-the-art Heart and Lung Transplant
Center at its Deccan Super Speciality Unit. A dedicated Heart Revival Clinic
has also been introduced for management of advanced heart failure/ very poor
heart function, using protocol driven and evidence based practices.
The clinic offers advanced diagnostics for heart failure as
well as varied treatment options covering Advanced Medical management
including ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation), Device Therapies and
Heart Transplants.
The opening of the Heart Transplant Center was announced by
leading neurosurgeon and Chairman of Sahyadri Hospitals Dr Charudutt Apte, in
the presence of well-known Heart Transplant Surgeon Dr Manoj Durairaj, Dr Sunil
Rao, Group COO and Head of Deccan , Nagar Road and Hadapsar Units of Sahyadri
Super Speciality Hospitals Dr Ketan Apte.
On this occasion, Dr Charudutt Apte said that Our goal is to
seamlessly provide highest quality of patient-centered care so that many more
patients can benefit from the modern and well equipped facilities, enormous
talent and the multi-skilled resources within our team and interdisciplinary
approach.
Sahyadri Hospitals has been a pioneer in organ transplant with
its well-equipped transplant centres at three units, one at Deccan, Nagar Road
and Nashik each.We currently have facilities for Liver, Pancreas, Cornea &
Kidney transplants. Now with the Heart Transplant Center our transplant program
will intensify further to touch many lives.
Explaining the concept of Heart Revival Clinic, Dr Manoj
Durairaj, said while Congestive heart failure can plague the life of many, some
may get reprieve from modern medicine, but for some unfortunate ones when no
other options seems to be the possibility, they reach a point where heart
transplant is the only option. The state of the art Heart Transplant Center
will help give a new lease of life to many.
He added that heart failure is one of the most prevalent
conditions globally and many of them require advanced treatments to survive .
Shockingly many succumb due to unavailability of proper treatment at the right
time . To address this issue we are opening an ultra-modern Heart
Revival Clinic which will have advanced diagnostics like Cardiac MRI/ Thallium
Scan, Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) , Cardiac Haemodynamic
Assessment as well as well as varied treatment options covering Advanced
Medical Management modalities (like ECMO- extra corporeal Membrane
Oxygenation), Device Therapies & Heart Transplant Surgery services.
Commenting on this new development, Dr Ketan Apte said that
the key to the our transplant program’s success so far has been our
highly skilled transplant team that includes surgeons, nurses, social
workers and many other professionals along with the modern equipment and
entire range of facilities.
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