Vicki Vergote- First in the US to Receive a New Heart Device
Vicki Vergote became the first in the U.S. to receive an innovative new heart device-the Fenestrated ASD Device. This device was co-invented by us and helped Vicki to survive a Congenital Heart Defect which was thought to be inoperable. After receiving our device and with supportive treatment she is leading a healthy life now.We have innovated a new device which would significantly improve the tre...
Feeling Like Iron Man
Developed the first version of the SVASD stent (VB Stent) by using available covered stents and a modified balloon helping Mark Lackey who was considered inoperable to give a normal quality of life. Further research and development of the device concept led to further research and final prodcution of a self expandable VB stent and delivery sytem currently manufactured in the US and available for c...
West Michigan Women First in World to get life saving Heart Device
Mary Bostwick, a 54-year-old woman from Hersey, with severe heart failure who was unfit for heart-lung transplant was terminally ill with long term hospitalization. We invented a device which successfully treated her making recovery to tranplantation and alive now. The device is now know as Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) licensed for use in Europe awaiting FDI approval. It is currently marketed by Oc...
I am Dreaming for the first time in my life : Teen living better life after experimental surgery
Landon, a teenager presented to us after many open heart surgeries and failed conversion of Fontan resulting in take down of Fontan circulation leaving him in a debilitating state . Our innovation helped him to have transcatheter completion of Fontan.This transformed his life and the concept inspired us to develop a system for transcatheter completion of Fontan paliation and further innovation in ...
3.5-year-old Russian boy undergoes complex "Berlin Heart" surgery and is given a new lease on life
On May 25, 2020, a team headed jointly by Dr K R Balakrishnan and Dr Suresh Rao of MGM Health Care performed Biventricular Berlin Heart Implantation on Fedrenko Lev, a three-and-a-half-year-old child from Russia. Fedrenko Lev, who had severe cardiomyopathy, underwent the first such surgery—a Biventricular Berlin Heart Implantation—in the entire South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa ...
One-year-old boy undergoes bilateral lung transplant at MGM Healthcare, Chennai
On August 24th, 2021, a 30-member team from led by Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan, Chairman-Cardiac Sciences and Director-Institute of the Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support successfully performed a complex bilateral lung transplant on a one-year-old boy at MGM Healthcare, Chennai. The child becomes one of the world’s youngest and India’s youngest recipients to un...
Asia's First Lung Transplant Surgery on Covid Survivor performed by Doctors at MGM, Chennai
Asia’s first lung transplant surgery on a COVID-19 survivor was performed by Dr K R Balakrishnan, and his team at the MGM Healthcare, Chennai. The virus had severely affected the man’s lungs with corona virus related fibrosis. According to the doctors, the 48-year-old businessman from Gurugram is doing good and his replacement lungs are functioning properly. Dr KR Balakrishnan...