Pioneering Institutions: B. M. Birla Heart
Research Center
B.M.Birla Heart Research Centre in
Kolkata is a super speciality hospital dedicated exclusively to the
diagnosis, treatment and research related to cardiovascular diseases. It
has established itself as India's most Advanced heart centre. In addition
to Indians, it has treated patients patients from Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Nepal, Mauritius, Hongkong, Kenya and other in neighbouring countries. The
centre has a special interesting the advanced field of cardiac surgery,
especially reconstructive operations on infants.
Its
achievements include: 1. First ever key-hole surgery to close hole in
the heart. 2. First dynamic cardiomyoplasty in Asia. 3. First
video-assisted thoracic surgery in Asia. 4. Fist in Asia to perform
angioplasty from wrist in the field of Interventional Cardiology. 5.
First in India to perform Open Heart Surgery on 9-day old baby weighing
2.5 kg extensively in the
area of Cardiac Surgery. 6. First time in India, the failing heart of
an adult was supported with artificial heart and mechanical
circulation
for 100 hours.
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