Sonoclot Analyzer, ACT Machine India, Thromboelastography, Cardiac Surgery, Liver Transplant

Brave Dhruvika has finally won the battle against deadly Citrullinemia with the help of his grandmother. Dhruvika was diagnosed with Citrullinemia just after her birth. Now she has been gifted a new life with a liver transplant,the liver was donated by her grandmother. Now Dhruvika has become the youngest in the country to fight Citrullinemia with a liver transplant. Citrullinemia is an autosomal recessive urea cycle disorder that causes ammonia and other toxic substances to accumulate in the blood. Since the substances also accumulate in the urine, the disorder can also be called citrullinuria. It is  a life-threatening disease in which the proteins do not get broken because of the deficiency of an enzyme. In such circumstances, the levels of ammonia become very high. Ammonia is one product that can cross the blood brain barrier, causing the brain cells to swell up and leading to other grave problems too. Dhruvika was born on February 8, 2013 at Cloud Nine Hospital in B...

Valley View Hospital is the only place in the region where patients and doctors can reap the benefits of robotic angioplasty. It was the eighth hospital in the nation to use the technology, and it now is one of only 14 nationwide. The Corindus CorPath Vascular Robotic system occupies the same room in Valley View’s Heart & Vascular Center where interventional angioplasty used to be performed manually. And the fundamentals of the procedure — which entails guiding a tiny balloon, often surrounded by a metal mesh stent, into a patient’s clogged artery and inflating it to open the blockage — remain the same. But the robot adds a level of precision that some hope will make it the new standard of care. “The utility of the robot ... is a safety issue and a cost issue,” said Dr. Frank Laws, medical director of the Heart & Vascular Center. He explained that using the robot results in less radiation exposure to patient and physician. It also results in cost savings of 20 to 30 pe...

Comparison of Sonoclot with Thromboelastography TEG in Liver Transplant Sample I: Sonoclot showed that the patient is having Platelet Dysfunction. Total Testing Time for Sonoclot: 18 mins for Thromboelastography TEG: 112 mins and it showed Factor deficiency Sample II: Sonoclot showed that the patient is having Platelet Dysfunction. Total Testing Time for Sonoclot: 18 mins for Thromboelastography TEG: 55 mins and it showed Factor deficiency Sample III: Sonoclot showed that the patient is having Platelet Dysfunction. Total Testing Time for Sonoclot: 18 mins for Thromboelastography TEG: 48 mins and for the first time it showed Platelet Dysfunction Sample IV: Sonoclot showed that the patient is having Platelet Dysfunction. Total Testing Time for Sonoclot: 19 mins for Thromboelastography TEG: 67 mins and it confirmed Sonoclot analysis of Platelet Dysfunction Sample V:  Sonoclot showed that the patient is having Platelet Dysfunction. Total Te...