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The expert team of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), along with a UK-based specialist, who had earlier examined Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, on Thursday visited Chennai's Apollo Hospital again.
Hospital sources said international specialist and consultant from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, Dr Richard Beale, and the AIIMS team, comprising Dr G Khilnani, Professor of Department of Pulmonology Medicine, Dr Anjan Trikha, Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, and Dr Nitish Nayak, Professor of Department of Cardiology, visited the hospital in the afternoon.
On 9 and 10 October, Khilnani had visited the hospital and examined the chief minister.
An earlier press release from the hospital had said, he had discussions with the hospital's expert panel and had "concurred with the present line of treatment" being given to the Chief Minister.
Jayalalithaa continues to be under treatment and "is being constantly monitored by the intensivists and other consultants in the expert panel", it had said.
Necessary respiratory support, antibiotics, nutrition, supportive therapy and passive physiotherapy were being given to her, it had added.
Jayalalithaa was admitted to the hospital on 22 September after she complained of fever and dehydration.
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