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Unlike procedures such as bypass surgery, balloon angioplasty, and stents, EECP treatment (ECP) is entirely non-invasive (involves no surgery, drugs or needles), carries no risk, is comfortable, and is administered in an outpatient setting. In fact, EECP therapy (ECP) can feel like a deep muscle massage to the legs and the patient is completely relaxed during the process.

EECP treatment (ECP) is administered as an out-patient procedure, making it very convenient for the patient and the family. The EECP (ECP) pumping console then rapidly inflates and deflates the leg cuffs in time with the heartbeat.

Nearly everyone with coronary artery disease can benefit from EECP (ECP). EECP heart treatment (ECP) is particularly well-suited to people who:

• Have already had angioplasty, stents or bypass surgery, and the heart disease symptoms have returned or persisted
• Are not candidates for surgery due to other serious medical conditions
• Do not want to undergo surgery or angioplasty
• Rely heavily on medicines, or have to curtail their activities to avoid angina and other heart disease symptoms
• EECP (ECP) treatment may be the only way to obtain relieve from crippling angina.
• ECP treatment is a non-invasive outpatient treatment that may relieve or eliminate Angina.

Hospitals having EECP:

• FRONTIER LIFILINE
• NEOMED HOSPITAL
• HARVEY HOSPITAL

Cytotron
Cytotron is the trade name of the Rotational Field Quantum Magnetic Resonance Device –RFQMR. It is a new device developed for Tissue Regeneration, Degeneration and Repair for the purposes of treating several chronic or degenerative diseases such as Cancer & Arthritis. The treatment modality is non-invasive, painless and free from side effects. Cytotron is very effective in curing certain conditions such as a damaged knee by regenerating the cartilage tissue or stopping and reversing the growth o a tumor in cancer.

RFQMR produces high power multi-frequency, high energy spinning quantum electromagnetic beams in the lower end of the EM spectrum in the Sub-Radio and Near-Radio Frequencies. In this frequency range, the effect causes predominantly non-thermal effects because the intensity is not high enough to significantly change tissue temperature. Non-thermal effects are direct interactions of RF with biological cells.

The Cytotron Device will deliver precise dose of RF beams in the 1 KHz to 10 MHz Range in the presence of high instantaneous magnetic field, which is then focused in the near field, using special antennae.

Stem Cells Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiating into a diverse range of specialized cell types. In a developing embryo, stem cells can differentiate into all of the specialized embryonic tissues. In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing specialized cells, but also maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin or intestinal tissues.

As stem cells can now be grown and transformed into specialized cells with characteristics consistent with cells of various tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture, their use in medical therapies has been proposed.

Stem cell therapies involve more than simply transplanting cells into the body and waiting for them to go to work. A successful stem cell therapy requires an understanding of how stem cells work, combined with a reliable approach to ensuring that the stem cells perform the desired action in the body.

In a bone marrow transplant, the patient's bone marrow stem cells are replaced with those from a healthy, matching donor. To do this, all of the patient's existing bone marrow and abnormal leukocytes are first killed using a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. Next, a sample of donor bone marrow containing healthy stem cells is introduced into the patient's bloodstream.

If the transplant is successful, the stem cells will migrate into the patient's bone marrow and begin producing new, healthy leukocytes to replace the abnormal cells.

Newborn infants no longer need their umbilical cords, so they have traditionally been discarded as a by-product of the birth process. In recent years, however, the multipotent-stem-cell-rich blood found in the umbilical cord has proven useful in treating the same types of health problems as those treated using bone marrow stem cells and PBSCs. Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants are less prone to rejection than either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells. This is probably because the cells have not yet developed the features that can be recognized and attacked by the recipient's immune system.

Both the versatility and availability of umbilical cord blood stem cells makes them a potent resource for transplant therapies.

Adyar Cancer Hospital, Chennai
Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Chennai
TriCell, SRMC, Chennai
Sankara nethralaya, Chennai

Surrogacy
Surrogacy is a method of reproduction whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant and deliver a child for a contracted party. She may be the child's genetic mother (the more traditional form of surrogacy), or she may, as a gestational carrier, carry the pregnancy to delivery after having been implanted with an embryo. Surrogacy is a controversial, and in some jurisdictions, illegal, medical procedure.

In traditional surrogacy the surrogate is pregnant with her own biological child, but this child was conceived with the intention of relinquishing the child to be raised by others; by the biological father and possibly his spouse or partner, either male or female. The child may be conceived via home artificial insemination using fresh or frozen sperm or impregnated via IUI (intrauterine insemination), or ICI (intra cervical insemination) which is performed at a fertility clinic.

In gestational surrogacy the surrogate becomes pregnant via embryo transfer with a child of which she is not the biological mother. She may have made an arrangement to relinquish it to the biological mother or father to raise, or to a parent who is themselves unrelated to the child (e. g. because the child was conceived using egg donation, sperm donation or is the result of a donated embryo). The surrogate mother may be called the gestational carrier.

GG HOSPITAL