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 Thoracic Surgery) Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is an accomplished Thoracic Surgeon. He has a rich experience in keyhole thoracic surgery. Dr Narasimhan will be available on 26 and 27 March at Siliguri and Kolkata respectively and patients are expected to be benefitted by these services at Siliguri and Kolkata.
