26
Mar
The awareness about respiratory diseases has increased largely due to Covid over the past two years. It is a fact that respiratory diseases are on the rise over the past few years. There are lot of respiratory ailments that can be addressed successfully by surgery. Earlier these surgeries used to be done via open thoracotomy (big incisions), however most of these surgeries are being done by Video Assisted Thoracoscopic surgery (keyhole surgery). Diseases such as bronchiectasis, aspergilloma, mucormycosis (black fungus), tumours in the chest and lung cancer can be successfully addressed by thoracic surgery. Dr Ajay Narasimhan, MS., Mch (Cardio…
