Browsing articles tagged with " Case Studies"
Jul
28
2011

Case Study 4: Mr. Mehta

My wife wants to attend the wedding in Gujarat in next month but she has been advised not to even step down from the home due to unstable condition. She is taking 6-7 sorbitrate daily and is on maximum medications but inspite of that since last 3 years she is not able to go for a daily walk, Said painfully Mr. Mehta who was very sad and disturbed for his wife who was a case [...]

Jul
24
2011

Case Study 3 : Mrs. Sumedha

‘Doctor, please do something so that I can sleep. From last 2 months I feel breathless at night when I go to sleep and get chest pain on slightest exertion. I have been advised bypass surgery but my case is very complicated and high risk for surgery. Being a diabetic for last 10 years my left leg which was amputed it took 2 long years just to heal the wound. I am having low hemoglobin [...]

Jul
21
2011

Hope After Failed Bypass Surgery

At old of age of 65 with severe uncontrolled diabetes, barely able to walk 7-8 steps even after bypass surgery 6 months back, Mrs.Kantharia (name changed) felt as if her world was coming to an end. The thought of undergoing angiography again and possibly some surgery again was killing her and making her cry all day. Especially at night time could not sleep because of chest pain and breatlessness. Her heart pumping efficiency was reduced [...]

Jul
19
2011

Case Study -2 : Mrs. Chayya

Mrs. Chayya (name changed) is a very independent successful entrepreneur who started Garment factory 20 years back and went through the Superwoman syndrome of bringing up two kids, managing house, husband, in-laws and social commitments.  Now she is not able to walk for even two minutes recently. She gets chest pain even on slightest exertion. She underwent Angioplasty in 2007 and after which she also underwent Breast cancer operation in 2008. During the operation, the [...]

Jul
9
2011

Case Study: Mrs.Patel

” I feel breathless even on slightest exertion, before angioplasty I was much better, but with 3 angiographies and two angioplasties in just two years, I am simply fed up with life” sighed Mrs.Patel who had specially come from Baroda to consult at IPC Heart Care Centre in Mumbai. The family members of Mrs.Patel were very apprehensive and narrated the history. It was observed that two years before she had slight chest pain on walking, [...]

Jul
4
2011

The rebirth of a heart patient

One morning, 60-year-old Faisal Khan felt excruciating pain in his chest. He noticed that he was also sweating profusely. But all he did was to casually ask his family doctor to come for a check-up. Faisal was surprised when the family doctor told him to rush to a hospital instantly. At the hospital, the doctors told him that he had had a massive heart attack. Very calmly, they also told him that he was on [...]

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