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Medical
Tourism in India for Heart Surgery
Heart surgery is one
of the specialized fields in the medical treatments
in India. With wide pool of resources, India has a
number of heart care institutes or hospitals
offering a comprehensive range of diagnostic and
therapeutic options for several heart diseases.
Since heart surgery is a very complex and traumatic
operation, patients prefer to get first class
medical treatments. From quality care to low costs,
India has had many a successful heart operation that
has greatly contributed to its excellent good track
record as the most sought after destination for
medical tourists.
Many medical tourists
found India a better destination for getting heart
treatments or other medical treatments at lower cost
in comparison to western countries. Medical tourists
from Pakistan, Africa, Sri Lanka, etc, regularly
travel to India to undergo heart surgery or
treatments. India has many well-equipped heart care
institutes offering facilities for heart operations
such as Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Heart Valve
Surgery, Aortic Surgery and Atrail Septal Defect
Surgery.
Cardiac care has become a speciality in India with institutions like the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Apollo Hospital becoming names to reckon with. They combine the latest innovations in medical electronics with unmatched expertise in leading cardiologists and cardo-thoracic surgeons. These centers have the distinction of providing comprehensive cardiac care spanning from basic facilities in preventive cardiology to the most sophisticated curative technology. The technology is contemporary and world class and the volumes handled match global benchmarks. They also specialise in offering surgery to high risk patients with the introduction of innovative techniques like minimally invasive and robotic surgery.
Renowned Indian hospitals like Apollo and Escorts Heart Institute are equipped to handle all phases of heart diseases from the elementary to the latest clinical procedures like interventional cardiac catherisation and surgical cardiac transplants. Their success rate at an average of 98.50% is at par with leading cardiac centers around the world.
Leading heart centers like The Escorts Heart Institute have Cardiac Care Units with sophisticated equipment and investigative facilities like Echocardiography with coloured Doppler, Nuclear Scanning and Coronary Angiography. The Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in Bangalore, the Cardiology Hospital in Kanpur, the Heart Hospital in Calicut and the Sree Sudihindra Medical Mission Hospital in Cochin are some hospitals in India devoted exclusively to cardiac treatment.
Surgical treatment packages are offered in following areas:
- Cardiac Surgery And Cardiology
- Open Heart Surgery
- Angiographies
- Angioplasties
- Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
- Paediatric Intervention
- Cardiology Robotic Surgery
Some of the procedures available are:
- directional coronary atherectomy
- rotablation
- coronary artery stenting
- intravascular ultrasound
- balloon valvuloplasty
- Non-Surgical closure of holes in the heart such as
ASD, VSD and PDA.
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