| 15 Apr 2011 |
| Small Device with Big Impact |
Mr Habibul Islam Khan hardly ventures out of his house since he suffered from a heart attack 10 year
ago. Despite a bypass operation, his heart function has continued to decline over the years. The
56-year old gets tired easily and suffered two scary episodes of breathlessness as a result of his poor heart function. He also has severe irregular heart rhythm, which puts him at risk of sudden cardiac death.
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| 15 Apr 2011 |
| Aortic Valve Replacement Gives Renewed Life to Shopkeeper from Myanmar |
| 37-year-old Le Le Cho leads a peaceful life in Bago, Myanmar, where she runs a small shop with her family. But her life changed suddenly in June 2010, when she was admitted to Bago Hospital for a fever and abdominal pain.
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| 08 Jun 2010 |
| No Fear of Open-Heart Surgery for Cambodian Patient |
| After a two-and-half hour open-heart surgery in 2009 to mend a hole in his heart, Mr. Satha Sin was surprised to wake up with just body aches. In Cambodia where he came from, an open-heart surgery is shrouded in fear and many horror stories of unbearable post-operation pain. According to Mr. Satha Sin, Cambodians even think that one can become disabled after an open-heart surgery. He was relieved to find, in his case, that those fears were quite unfounded.
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| 04 May 2010 |
| Ex-Attorney General of Bangladesh Gets New Lease of Life |
| Mr. Fida M. Kamal, a high-profile practising lawyer in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was a heavy smoker for many years before he quit in August 2009. The barrister-at-large of the Inner Temple (one of the four inns of court in the United Kingdom) in London and senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh used to smoke 30 sticks of cigarettes a day before he stubbed out for good. Soon after quitting, Mr. Kamal began to suffer from shortness of breath immediately after conducting hearings in court. He would feel weak after court hearings; his energy level crashed and his face would turn ashen.
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| 04 May 2010 |
| Vietnamese homemaker successfully treated for two heart disorders |
| Madam Pham Thi Hien, a homemaker from Hanoi, suffered from mitral valve stenosis for 30 years. She often felt chest pain, faint and breathless. The condition is due to the abnormal narrowing of the heart valve, caused by progressive wear and tear or scarring of the valve due to a rheumatic fever.
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| 15 Oct 2009 |
| Indonesian patient gets new lease of life at National Heart Centre Singapore |
| Oey Ju Hoa, from Surabaya, Indonesia, feels like a new man after a heart surgery to replace his aortic valve. “Before the operation, I was under a lot of stress. I was constantly breathless and often have chest pain. After the operation, I feel like I had gone through a rebirth.”
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| 15 Oct 2009 |
| Getting to the root of his infection at National Heart Centre Singapore |
A heart problem is unlikely to come to most people’s minds when they have a fever. After all, a fever is a symptom of an infection in the body. But do you know that your heart can be infected too?
This was what Terry Leggett, an American working in Singapore, found out. In April 2009, he had a prolonged fever that lasted for close to two months. He was warded at a private hospital here for two weeks during which he was given heavy doses of antibiotics. The fever subsided but came back again after he went home. His regular doctor was not able to diagnose the cause of his fever.
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| 15 Oct 2009 |
| Mongolian banker avoids open-heart operation with minimally invasive PCI |
| Bat Battulga, a 54-year old banker from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is a picture of rosy health. He brisk walks a few times a week and eats healthily. It would be hard for anyone to even guess that Mr. Battulga had ischaemic heart disease; a condition where the heart muscles receive reduced blood supply due to blockage in a coronary artery.
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| 07 Nov 2006 |
| Life-saving op |
Thurein Tun's name means promising sun. But that is not why his parents and sisters hover around the youngest member of the family like the planets of a solar system. Their attention is born out of love and concern because this young man from Myanmar suffers from a condition for which now, at 25, he had to be operated on for the fourth time.
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| 23 Oct 2006 |
| Sleepy No More |
| For 15 years, Mr Balakrishnan s/o Venkidusamy, always felt tired at the wheel. It was a worrying problem for Mr Balakrishnan who is a SAF regular who stays at Jurong but travels to Changi Naval Base to work.
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| 29 May 2006 |
| When cancer strikes at the most visible part of the body |
| Head and neck cancer, as its name implies, is a term used to describe a number of malignant (cancerous) tumours that develop in any of the tissues or organs in the head and neck region, such as cancers of the mouth, throat, sinus, nasal cavity, larynx and salivary glands.
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| 15 Mar 2006 |
| S'pore doc helps pioneer smart knee surgery |
| COMPUTER-ASSISTED surgery has made it easier for doctors to partially replace arthritis-wracked knees, giving patients longer lasting replacements and speeding up recovery time.
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| 16 Feb 2006 |
| 'My Cancer, My Choices' |
| 46 years old, at the peak of her career as the Vice President of Finance in Danone-Aqua, Parmaningsih's life took an unexpected turn. In July 2001, the Indonesian discovered that she had stage 3 breast cancer. She consulted different specialists in Jakarta.
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