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What Factors Will You Consider In Choosing a Hospital For Your Child's Congenital Heart Disease?

Congenital heart diseases are most common birth defects. If your child is diagnosed with congenital heart disease, you feel like you are entering a strange and unfamiliar territory. Instead of welcoming your newborn baby to a cosy and comfortable nursery at home, you are confined to a hospital till he gets cured. Operating on a tiny organ with correspondingly small vessels requires highly specialized training, skills as well as experience. Even under pressure, you are required to decide which hospital to

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences Cardiac Surgery (CTVS)

Feb 27 , 2018 | 2 min read

Heart Transplant – Frequently Asked Questions

A heart transplant is usually recommended to patients where other treatment options like medication and surgeries have failed to improve the functioning of the heart. The process in which a diseased heart is replaced by a healthy heart is called heart transplant. Today, with advanced medical technology it is possible to successfully do a heart transplant without any complications. The chances of survival are high; however only if the surgery is performed at one of the best heart transplant hospitals like Ma

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences Cardiac Surgery (CTVS)

Feb 12 , 2018 | 3 min read

Open-heart Surgery - What You Need to Know?

It is one of the most significant life-saving surgeries performed nowadays. With the advent of modern technology it has a usual risk of 1% to 5 % which is as good as any other surgery performed today .In this type of surgery, heart surgeons open the chest of the patient and perform surgery on the heart's internal structures.

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences Cardiac Surgery (CTVS)

Feb 12 , 2018 | 4 min read

Who Are the Right Candidates for ECMO?

With the advancements in technology, the medical arena has also marched ahead with its high-end tools and new inventions treating the most challenging health situations ever. ECMO is one such invention which has the capability to provide life support to a critical patient. It is being used for treating adults and children facing cardiac and respiratory failure. ECMO - extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is a high-end technology used for rescuing the patients suffering from heart and lung failure. The mac

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences Cardiac Surgery (CTVS)

Jan 17 , 2018 | 2 min read

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Simple Home Remedies For Loose Motions

Loose motions or Diarrhea is one of the most common ailments across every age group – from infants and mothers to the elderly. Diarrhea is the frequent passage of watery or loose stools across irregular intervals. There are many possible causes of Diarrhea. These include allergies, food poisoning, infections, and stress. As such, Diarrhea is merely a symptom of one of many possible causes. Most of the time, loose motions is not a serious problem and can be treated at home. Below, we've outlined 3 simple h

Dr. Manoj Ranka In Internal Medicine

Feb 22 , 2018 | 2 min read

Indian Diet Plan In Pregnancy

To make sure that what you eat helps your body and also helps you stay interested, spread out your food through the day by following different food ideas. You can mix and match the following depending on how much you can eat and whether you are vegetarian or non vegetarian.

Dr. Neera Aggarwal In Obstetrics And Gynaecology Nutrition And Dietetics

Nov 07 , 2020 | 2 min read

PCOD and PCOS - Symptoms, Causes, Differences & Treatment

Polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) or polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a syndrome that has taken modern world by storm. Polycystic ovarian disease or syndrome is a very common disease heard in today's younger generation. It is a must that young girls understand this disease at an early stage as well as its causes and future implications. It is a hormonal disorder with: Imbalance of the two female hormones estrogen and progesterone with estrogen taking the upper hand – menstrual irregularities, infer

Dr. Kamna Nagpal In Obstetrics And Gynaecology

Jun 30 , 2016 | 2 min read

Eye Flu: Symptoms, Prevention, and At-Home Care

Eye fluid or conjunctivitis is a highly contagious eye infection affecting many. Conjunctivitis is usually viral and may have superadded bacterial or allergic eye disease.

Dr. Parul Sharma In Eye Care / Ophthalmology

Jul 26 , 2023 | 2 min read

Think Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a Heart Attack?

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) occurs when the heart stops beating, abruptly and without warning. If this happens, blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs. In addition, if the heartbeat is not restored with an electrical shock immediately, death follows within minutes. SCA takes one life every two minutes, claiming more lives each year than breast cancer , lung cancer, or AIDS. More than 350,000 deaths occur each year as a result of SCA. To decrease the death toll from SCA, it is important

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences

Dec 18 , 2017 | 3 min read

Myocardial Infarction- A Growing Menace in Younger People!

The increasing prevalence of Myocardial Infarction (MI) in people less than 45 years of age is significantly alarming. Dr. Samir Kubba. Senior Consultant, Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj , says that there is a relative scarcity of data on premature coronary heart disease (CHD) and MI in the young, but we are now seeing a growing number of patients having MI at a relatively young age. He recalls a successful angioplasty case that he performed in a 21 year old

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences

Dec 12 , 2017 | 2 min read

What Do You Need to Know about Coronary Artery Disease?

Women are caregivers & caretakers of the family and their being healthy is of utmost importance. But most of the times they are so busy caretaking that they ignore their health and so does everyone else very conveniently, including family, community and doctors also at times. Do you know India will have the largest heart disease burden by 2020? Most of us believe that CAD i.e. Coronary Artery Disease is the disease of men, and women only have to worry about mammography & Gynaecology visit. In fact, the w

Dr. Anupam Goel In Cardiac Sciences

Nov 27 , 2017 | 1 min read

Max Dehradun Introduces “Heart Team Concept” to treat Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)

Max Hospital, Dehradun is the first hospital in Uttarakhand to adopt “Heart Team Concept” in the management of complex heart diseases. This concept is gaining popularity to provide holistic and ethically correct treatment to patients suffering from various cardiovascular diseases. For managing patients who are suffering from complex cardiovascular diseases has changed substantially over the last 10 years with the advent of advancements in information technology and an increasing amount of evidence data.

Dr. Punish Sadana In Cardiac Sciences

Nov 10 , 2017 | 1 min read

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