Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai

The hospital is counted amongst the top 10 cardiology hospitals in India as it was the first one to introduce MitraClip, a cutting-edge technology in cardiology.

It was also the first hospital to do India’s first successful Trans-catheter mitral valve replacement.

99.6% of the cardiac bypass surgeries are beating heart surgeries, in which the heart-lung machine is not used, thus providing faster recovery and lesser damage to the body.

The center is armed with state of art equipment for accurate diagnosis, which includes, 320 slice CT Scanner, 64 slice CT angiography, transesophageal echocardiography etc.

It has a record of doing about 1,52,000 cardiac surgeries, which is the highest in entire south-east Asia.

A distinct section is established for pediatric patients, which has treated thousands of cases especially congenital heart diseases and cardiac surgeries.

The team of the best cardiologists in India has performed over 85,000 angiographies and more than 50,000 coronary angioplasties.

Dr. M Sitaram, one of the best cardiologists in India, is working with the hospital for the last 18 years. He has also worked for the Indian Army.

The hospital is a leading gastroenterology hospital in India, which is established since 1983.

There is a provision for the latest endoscopic procedures for the gastrointestinal bleed, gastrointestinal cancers, foreign body removal and many more.

The gastroenterologists mostly use the minimal access surgery to treat the major gastrointestinal surgical problems of the intestines, pancreas and hepatobiliary tract.

There is an internationally renowned transplant care programme specially designed for adult and pediatric liver transplant.

The hospital is known for performing the largest number of laparoscopic procedures in the country.

It is well-equipped with the specialized facilities such as CCU and Multi Organ Transplant Units designed for the thorough post-operative monitoring of donors and recipients.

The gynecological unit is harnessed with the most current technological advances like Endo Wrist instruments that mimic natural hand and wrist motions that increase the precision of the surgery and hence reducing the errors.

Most of the gynecological surgeries are done with minimal invasion technique and da Vinci robotic technique that includes hysterectomy, myomectomy, sacrocolpopexy, radical hysterectomy, tubal anastomosis etc.

Dr. Amudha Hari is working as a gynecologist with the hospital, having an experience of more than 30 years.

She is an expert in doing Hysterectomy, C Section, Amniocentesis, Cesarean Birth, Embryo Cryopreservation, and Body Contouring Surgery.

The department of neurosurgery at Apollo Hospitals in India is well equipped to treat all the neurological diseases including epilepsy, coma, neuropathies, multiple sclerosis, myopathies, Parkinson's disease, Myasthenia Gravis etc establishing it as one of the best neurosurgery hospitals in India.

The hospital carries out more than 1000 neurosurgeries every year.

The team routinely performs surgeries for conditions like head injury, spine injury, brain hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, tumors, spinal dislocation, congenital malformations etc.

The unit was the first to do a repeat Deep Brain Stimulation surgery successfully.

Dr. Dhanaraj M, a neurologist at the hospital, has an experience of over 35 years and has also won several prestigious awards.

This was the first oncology hospital in India and the first hospital in Chennai to be accredited by NABH.

It was also the first hospital to have the proton cancer center in East Asia.

Each case is addressed and discussed in the tumor board, which consists of a panel of medical, surgical and radiation oncologists.

Several complex surgical procedures are routinely performed such as liver resection, extensive resection lung tumors, limb conserving surgery in bone tumors, laparoscopic surgery, reconstruction of flaps etc

Apollo Chennai, is consistently ranked in the list of best cancer hospital in India

It is one of the best hospitals in India having all the latest techniques of radiotherapy such as True Beam STX.

The orthopedic department is armed with the contemporary infrastructure to be able to treat the patients with multiple fractures; for example, a shattered pelvis can be corrected in just one day at the hospital.

The Apollo Institute is the first to Asia to offer Robotic spine surgery and robotic rehabilitation.

It is the pioneer in total knee replacement in India.

It was also the first hospital to perform Birmingham Hip Resurfacing procedure in India.

It has a success rate of nearly 99% for hip resurfacing in India.

The hospital routinely performs several forms of spinal procedures consisting mainly of Minimally invasive spine surgeries and other surgeries like complex spinal reconstructions.

It is ranked one of the top 10 hospitals for spine surgery in India as it is internationally recognized for complex deformity surgeries and revision spine surgeries.

The hospital has successfully performed India’s First Fusionless Scoliosis surgery on a 14-year-old patient who had scoliosis without any known cause.

Dr. Murlidharan V, who is one of the best spine surgeons in India with an experience of 16 years works with the hospital.

He has won the prestigious Arthritis Research UK Investigator Award 2013 at British Orthopaedic Association Congress.

The hospital performs nearly 5200 urology surgeries every year.

Several urological disorders are regularly treated at the hospital such as congenital disorders, stone disease, urological cancers, incontinence, erectile dysfunction and many more.

Surgeries such as lithotripsy, endo-urology, TURP, laparoscopic urological surgeries are routinely performed with a high success rate.

Dr. Arun Kumar is a urologist at the hospital, having an experience of nearly 12 years.