Heart Care Abroad
One in eight people in the UK have been diagnosed with a disease of the heart or
circulatory system. With heart problems being such a wide-spread issue, many people
are opting to have heart surgery abroad.
For example, George Marshall, a 72 year old patient from Bradford was diagnosed
with coronary heart disease. He opted to go for a heart bypass operation at Wockhardt
Hospital, India (an affiliate of The Medical Tourist Company).
Click here to read about George Marshall's experience, published in the
Guardian newspaper.
Customers can usually be treated quickly whilst saving thousands of pounds compared
to private healthcare. Typically, a heart bypass in the UK can cost £15,000, the
equivalent in a country such as India costs from as little as £6,000.
The medical centres we use have high standards of hygiene, are well-equipped with
the latest technologies and facilities, and have round-the-clock cardiac care teams
to ensure that high success rates are achieved.
Cardiac services available include:
- Open heart surgery
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Coronary angiogram and cardiac catherisation
- Coronary angioplasties with stenting
- Radio frequency allations to treat palpitations
- Paediatric open heart surgery
- Closed heart and vascular treatment
Case Study - Atrial Flutter
The Medical Tourist Company organised visas, heart care and a recuperation holiday
for Mike Cooke. Here is is his comments:
I have just returned from India after a heart operation. The Medical Tourist Company
recommended a specialist hospital in Mumbai and not only did they make all the arrangements
for me, arranged visas, a car to collect me from the airport, but they also put
me in touch with the surgeon who would perform the operation and sent me his full
CV. I even spoke to the surgeon before leaving. Everything went exactly as arranged.
The hospital was fantastic, like a 5 star hotel with service to match, the staff
and doctors second to none.
Operation over, the hospital and The Medical Tourist Company arranged a short holiday
to Goa for me and my partner and kept in contact all the time. I never felt alone
through all this and feel very lucky to have found the Medical Tourist Company.
They even sent representatives to visit each day. My total bill was about a quarter
of the UK projected cost.
I heartily (forgive the pun) recommend the Medical Tourist Company and welcome any
questions from prospective medical tourists.
Click here to read his
experience on the BBC website.
Coronary Artery Disease successfully treated by using a latest Bioresorbable Vascular
Scaffold (BVS)
New Delhi, December 10, 2010: Fortis Escorts Heart Institute announced that the
first Cardiac patient in Asia with Coronary Artery Disease has been successfully
treated by using a Bioresorable Vascular Scaffold (BVS).
New Delhi, December 10, 2010: Fortis Escorts Heart Institute announced that the
first Cardiac patient in Asia with Coronary Artery Disease has been successfully
treated by using a Bioresorable Vascular Scaffold (BVS). The BVS is a groundbreaking
device designed by Abbott Vascular to restore blood flow by opening blocked arteries
of the heart and providing support while it heals. Once the vessel remains open
without the extra support, the Bioresorbable scaffold is designed to be slowly metabolized
and eventually dissolve by the body and disappear. The 65 year old patient, treated
by Dr. Ashok Seth, Chairman, Cardiovascular Sciences at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute
in New Delhi, is the first patient in Asia to receive this procedure.
"Treatments for coronary artery disease have come a long way since the days of balloon
angioplasties and stainless steel stents. The results from Abbott’s earlier ABSORB
trial were quite remarkable, and physicians are excited by the concept of being
able to effectively open up and treat blocked arteries without leaving a permanent
implant in the blood vessel," said Dr. Seth. To have an implant which does its job
of opening up blocked arteries and then disappears from the body over a period of
time is revolutionary. Abbott’s BVS may start a new era for treatment of Coronary
Artery Disease. Dr Seth also said that “there are additional potential advantages
of the fact that patient could undergo an MRI at any time, may be able to stop his
blood thinner medicines at any time without the risk of clot forming in the arteries.
Also, the arteries contract and relax like normal arteries.”
Heart disease affects more than 60 million people in India. However, less than 3,00,000
people with coronary artery disease undergo procedures such as Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention and Coronary artery bypass surgery. The Bioresorable Vascular Scaffold
provides a newer way of treating a large category of patients with the improved
newer generation stents in the Scaffold system.
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is the first hospital in Asia, to enroll a patient
into the ABSORB EXTEND trial, a worldwide trial of up to 1,000 patients at 100 centres
in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada and Latin America. To date, approximately 200 patients
have been implanted with this device in the World, and data has been presented on
patients at various time intervals.
Abbott is the only company with long-term clinical data evaluating the safety and
performance of a fully bioresorbable drug eluting vascular scaffold. Results from
the first stage of the ABSORB trial with 30 patients followed for four years demonstrated
that Abbott’s BVS successfully treated coronary artery disease and was re-absorbed
into the walls of the treated arteries. Patients in this first phase of the ABSORB
trial experienced no stent thrombosis (blood clots) and no new major adverse cardiac
events (MACE). The treated vessels were able to expand and contract, without being
restricted by a permanent implant – indicating that the device was dissolved.
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New Heart Op Dramatically Reduces Pain – Mini Bypass by Dr. Rehan
Thousands of people could benefit from a new operating technique which is believed
to halve the pain normally associated with open-heart surgery.
The so-called mini-bypass is done through a cut in the chest which is three times
smaller than usual.
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Wide Awake Heart Surgery 'Reduces Risks' – Awake Bypass by Dr. Vivek Jawali
Surgeons have carried out open-heart surgery on a patient who was wide awake throughout
the procedure - giving hope of reducing the risks of complex operations.
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