Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine field deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infective & non-infective illnesses in adult patients. Internists (physicians) are skilled in managing patients who are suffering from undifferentiated or multi-system diseases.
Department of Internal Medicine is the backbone of any hospital which takes care of admitted patients as well as patients coming in the outpatient department and provides comprehensive care with the help of its sub-specialities including emergency & critical care departments to patients with multiple organ systems involvement.
Best practices are deployed in managing various communicable or infectious and noncommunicable diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, chickenpox, influenza etc., malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, pneumonia, hepatitis, meningitis, liver abscess, urinary tract infections. Department also deals with noncommunicable chronic diseases like Diabetes, HTN, COPD, Bronchial Asthma, migraine, stroke, myocardial infarction, chronic kidney disease, arthritis etc.
Internal medicine is a vast medical speciality that involves diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. It has various subspecialties that are as follows:
- Cardiology deals with the diseases and disorders related to the heart. Some common conditions include heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and valvular heart disease among others.
- Endocrinology deals with issues related to the endocrine system, i.e., the system of glands that produces hormones like thyroid hormone, growth hormone and insulin. Some common conditions include diabetes and thyroid disease.
- Pulmonology deals with the medical conditions related to the respiratory tract. Some pulmonological diseases are asthma, tuberculosis, lung cancer and more.
- Gastroenterology deals with the defects and diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and biliary tree. Some conditions that are treated are cirrhosis, hepatitis, pancreatitis and liver failure.
- Nephrology deals with the diseases of kidneys. Nephrological conditions include kidney failure, kidney stones, hypertension, nephritis and chronic kidney diseases.
- Infectious Diseases refer to the diseases that are caused by organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Some infectious diseases are influenza, chickenpox, measles, dengue fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fevers, malaria etc.
- Rheumatology refers to diseases of joints & connective tissue that include rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, Spondyloarthropathies etc.
- Haematology deals with various conditions like anaemia, leukaemia, lymphoma etc.
The doctors at Borkar Hospital provide a good medical care. Our services are not just limited to the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases but also extend to creating awareness about a healthy lifestyle & prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases amongst the patients.
Below mentioned are some of the common health issues faced by everyone from time to time and the kind of treatment required: