Dr. JOY M THOMAS- Cardiologist In Chennai

Dr. JOY M THOMAS is a Cardiologist In Chennai associated with Apollo hospitals In Chennai.

  • Qualification: M.B.,B.S., M.D. (General Medicine), MD (Biophysics D.M (Cardio) FRCP(Glasg) FACC, FHRS, FCSI
  • Department: Cardiology
  • Specialty: Cardiologist
  • Locality: Chennai
  • Consultant in: Apollo Speciality Hospitals Vanagaram
  • Address-No.64,vanagaram To Ambattur Main Road, Chennai
  • Experience: 30 years
  • appointment-MON- SAT( 09:00 AM-05:00 PM )
  • Contact Number: 1806 500 1066

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About Apollo Healthcare

Apollo Healthcare was established in 1983. The hospital has a presence in over 120 countries, houses 7000 + doctors, 4000+ pharmacies across places. Centers at Chennai and Hyderabad are the Joint Commission International-accredited. 

Milestones- Cardiac care

  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed four back-to-back MitraClip procedures in a single day.
  • India’s first advanced Aquilion One Prism 640-slice CT Scanner was introduced by Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
  •  Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, implanted the first Artificial Pulmonary Valve (32mm) without surgery.
  • Apollo Hospitals, Indore, conducted India’s second successful Renal Denervation (RDN) Therapy for treating uncontrollable hypertension.
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai introduced the HIS-bundle-pacing procedure, a new technique to treat bradyarrhythmias.
  •  Apollo Hospitals, Indore implanted the first neonatal permanent pacemaker on a 2-day-old newborn baby.
  • The Guwahati center removed a cardiac tumor through Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
  • The hospital at Nellore- is the first hospital to perform TAVI in Rayalaseema & the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh on a 69-year-old patient.
  • The Indore facility- is the first hospital in Madhya Pradesh to perform Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) on a 69-year-old female patient.
  • Navi Mumbai center- successfully performed its first heart transplant on a 33-year-old male patient in 2019. The center also implanted the smallest and advanced leadless pacemaker on an 85-year-old patient.
  • Apollo Hospitals, on a 69-year-old patient, performed the first balloon-expandable TAVR in Visakhapatnam. 
  • Bhubaneswar facility was the first hospital in Odisha to perform Alcohol Septal Ablation (ASA) procedure.
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, completes over 50,000 cardiac surgeries includes Bypass, Valve replacements, Pediatric cardiac procedures, Transplants, and Minimally invasive procedures.
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, performed India’s first minimally invasive Robotic Hybrid Revascularisation surgery on a 63-year-old female patient in 2019
  • Apollo Hospitals Conducted over 1,52,000 cardiac surgeries – one of only ten hospitals worldwide to achieve these volumes.
  • Achieved a 99.6% success rate in cardiac bypass surgeries, over 99.6% of beating heart surgeries.
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, completed 25,000 coronary bypass procedures, including 10,000 beating heart coronary bypass operations in 2009.

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