The sound and rhythm of the heart hold clues to the underlying heart condition and, for that matter, any illness and medical condition. This is precisely why the diagnosis of every medical disease, big or small, starts with a doctor putting a stethoscope near the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...