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‘Insertable
loop recorder is a mini doctor with the patient’
Dr Balbir Singh, senior interventional cardiologist, Escorts
Heart Institute and Research Centre, has for the first time
ever in north India implanted an insertable loop recorder
(ILR) in an 11-year-old girl. In conversation with Express
Healthcare Management, Dr Chugh gives a comprehensive view
of syncope and the loop recorder, which is gradually becoming
the preferred mode for the diagnosis of syncope all over the
world.
‘In
coil embolisation, there is complete control over the amount
of infarct
Interventional cardiologist Dr Sudhir Vaishnav and his team
has recently pioneered coil embolisation on 51-year-old A
J Satpathy suffering from Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
at Asian Heart Institute. Dr Vaisnav spoke to Express Healthcare
Management about the procedure.
Mumbai
gets another multispecialty hospital
Experience has shown neither government nor private or corporate
hospitals have succeeded in meeting the healthcare demands
of the people in the country. Charitable hospitals have met
them to a large extent. I would like to clarify that I do
not oppose the private sector’s role in healthcare.
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