Our Milestones
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs India’s first Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery on a 93-year-old patient.
- Asia’s first dual implant of MitraClip and TAVR was successfully performed on a Sri Lankan patient at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
- In a first for Asia, four back-to-back MitraClip procedures were successfully performed in a single day at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
- The first and the world’s largest Artificial Pulmonary Valve (32mm) was implanted without surgery by a team of doctors at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
- HIS-bundle-pacing procedure, a new technique to treat bradyarrhythmias was introduced by Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
- Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Nellore is the first hospital to perform TAVI in Rayalaseema & the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh on a 69-year-old patient.
- Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Nellore is the first hospital in Nellore to perform minimally invasive CABG
- The first ever Transfemoral Pulmonary Valve Implantation using MYVAL, an Indian-made valve, was performed by Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai completes over 50,000 cardiac surgeries including Bypass, Valve replacements, Pediatric cardiac procedures, Transplants and Minimally invasive procedures.
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is the first hospital in Chennai to introduce MitraClip, a cutting edge technology to treat cardiac patients
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed India’s first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) after in-hospital cardiac arrest on a patient with severe aortic stenosis.
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed India’s First Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed Asia’s first en-bloc combined heart & liver transplant, joining a very small set of transplant centres in the world to have done this
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, has completed over 1,55,000 cardiac surgeries with a success rate of 99.6%
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully completed over 1,25,000 angioplasties
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed over 80 Lakh heart checks and over 5500 pacemaker implantations
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai completes the highest number of combined heart and double lung transplants in India
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed Asia’s first en-bloc combined heart & liver transplant, joining the elite club of transplant centres in the world to have done this
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed a combined heart and lung transplant on the oldest recorded recipient in India
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is the first to introduce 64 Slice and 320 Slice CT Scanners
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has a 24×7 State-of-the-art Cath Lab
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has the fastest Door to Needle Time
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed India’s first minimally invasive Robotic Hybrid Revascularisation surgery in 2019 on a 63-year-old female patient
- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai also performed India’s first Minimally Invasive Hybrid Revascularisation procedure (without Robotic assistance) in 2018 on a 53-year-old man with a triple vessel blocks
