Respiratory diseases are on the rise over the past few years and the awareness about respiratory diseases have also increases largely due to covid over the past 2 years. There a lot of respiratory ailments that can be addressed successfully by surgery. Diseases such as bronchiectasis, aspergilloma, mucormycosis (black fungus), tumours in the chest and lung cancer can be successfully addressed by thoracic 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).
Dr Ajay Narasimhan, MS., Mch (Cardio Thoracic Surgery) Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is an accomplished Thoracic Surgeon with rich experience in keyhole thoracic surgery. He will be available on 26 and 27 March at Siliguri and Kolkata respectively and patients may be benefitted by these services.
