Obesity Clinic

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health,. leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems.

Body mass index (BMI), a measurement which compares weight and height, defines people as overweight(pre-obese)

Obesity increases the likelihood of various diseases, particularly hear disease, type 2 diabetes, breathing difficulties during sleep, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

Obesity is most commonly caused by

• Dietary calories
• Lack of physical activity
• Genetic susceptibility
• Genes
• Endocrine disorders
• Medications or psychiatric illness

The primary treatment for obesity is

• Dieting and physical exercise

Cardio Clinic

Cardiology is a medical specialty dealing with disorder of the heart. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology.

Disorder of the coronary circulation 

• Atherosclerosis
• Restenosis
• Coronary heart disease (Ischaemic heart disease, Coronary artery disease)
• Acute coronary syndrome

a) Angina

b) Myocardial infarction (Heart attack)   

           Diagnostic tests and procedures

• Blood tests
• Echocardiogram
• Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
• Cardiac stress test
• Auscultation (Listening with the Stethoscope)
• Electrocardiogram(ECG or EKG)

Plastic Surgery Clinic

Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.

In plastic surgery, the transfer of skin tissue (skin grafting) is a very common procedure it includes:-

• Reconstructive surgery
• Cosmetic surgery

Sub-specialties include burns, cosmetics, craniofacial, hand, micro & paediatric surgeries.

Cancer Clinic

     
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with tumors (cancer).
Oncology is concerned with

•  The diagnosis of any cancer in a person
•  Therapy (e.g. surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other modalities
•  Follow – up of cancer patients after successful treatment
•  Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies
•  Ethical questions surrounding cancer care.
•  Screening efforts:

Of population, or - of the relatives of patients (in types of cancer that are thought to have a hereditary basis, such as breast cancer)

Rhematology Clinic

Rheumatology is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. Rheumatology is a rapidly evolving medical specialty, with advancements owing largely to new scientific discoveries about the immunology of these disorders. Because the characteristics or rheumatological disorders in terms of the autoimmune system, viz., as an autoimmune disease. 

Chest Clinic

It is the specialty that deals with diseases of the lungs and the respirator tract. It is called chest medicine and respiratory medicine.

Chest medicine is not a specialty in itself but is an inclusive term which pertains to the treatment of diseases of the chest and contains the fields of  pulmonology, thoracic surgery, and intensive care medicine. Pulmonology is concerned with the diagnosis and  treatment of lung diseases, as well as secondary prevention.

Physical diagnostics are as important s in the other fields of medicine.

• Inspection of the hands for signs of cyanosis or clubbing, chest wall, and respiratory rate. Palpation of the cervical lymph nodes, trachea and chest wall movement. Percussion of the lung fields.
• Auscultation (with a stethoscope) of the lung fields

Other tools include

• Laboratory investigation of blood (blood tests)
• Spirometry
• Chest X-rays, CT scanning, MRI scanning

Endocrinology clinic

Endrocrinology is a branch of medicine concerned with the study of the biosynthesis, storage, chemistry, and physiological function of hormones and with the cells of the endocrine glands and tissues that secrete them. The medical specialty of endocrinology involves the diagnostic evaluation of a wide variety of symptoms and variations and the long-term management of disorder of deficiency or excess of one or more hormones. The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases are guided by laboratory tests to a greater extent for most specialties.

Endrocrinology involves caring for the person as well as the disease. Most endocrine disorder are chronic  diseases that need life-long care. Some of the most common endocrine diseases includes diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and the metabolic syndrome. Care of diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases necessitates understanding the patient at the personal and social level as well as the molecular, and the physician-patient relationship can be an important therapeutic process.