Sahyadri Hospitals Opens Heart and Lung Transplant Centre

July 20, 2018

Sahyadri Group of Hospitals has opened a state-of-the-art Heart and Lung Transplant Centre at its Deccan Super Specialty 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 Centre 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 Apte said that, “Our goal is to seamlessly provide highest quality of patient-centred 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 and Kidney transplants. Now with the Heart Transplant Centre our transplant programme will intensify further to touch many lives.”

Explaining the concept of Heart Revival Clinic, Dr 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 Centre 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.

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 Haemodynaemic Assessment as well as well as varied treatment options covering Advanced Medical Management modalities (like ECMO- extra corporeal Membrane Oxygenation), Device Therapies and Heart Transplant Surgery services.