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CARDIOLOGY
Critical Cardiac Surgeries

Narayana Hrudayalaya is located close to the Electronics City of Bangalore covering 26 acres of land with a building to accommodate 1000 beds, 26 operation theaters, infrastructures to perform 70 heart surgeries a day. Within the first 5 years of commissioning this institution, currently 25 heart surgeries are done on a daily basis, out of them about 30% are on children with heart problem. Rest of them is adult open-heart surgeries.

Institution is attracting patients from 22 countries primarily because of its expertise in the area of complex heart problems. To enumerate them;

Pulmonary Thrombo Endarterectomy for pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary embolism is a dreadful conditions and its advanced stage only
Treatment for this is a lung transplant, which carries extremely high risk
And poor prognosis. Narayana Hrudayalaya is one of the very few centers in the World today performing Pulmonary thrombo endarcterectomy (PTE) for pulmonary embolism (PE).

Aneurysms of the Aorta
Surgery for Aneurysms of the Aorta including Aortic Arch Replacement and Replacement of Total Thoraco Abdominal Aorta with Re-implantation of Visceral
Arteries.
Aneurysms are fairly common problem, which are fatal if not treated.
Narayana Hrudayalaya does large number of aneurysm surgeries on a
regular basis.

Dor’s procedure
Remodeling Procedures (Dor’s procedure) for Left Ventricular Aneurysms:
Terminal Heart Failure is a common problem affecting most of the ischaemic
heart patients. Left ventricular remodeling procedure called Dor's procedure
has a really transformed the lives of these patients and over 200 of these
Procedures are done at Narayana Hrudayalaya.

Double Switches Corrected Transposition of Great Arteries
This is a rare heart problem, which can be corrected by performing complex
Procedure called Double Switch to re-route blood through the heart.

Pulmonary Atresia
Pulmonary Atresia is a condition in which blue babies are born with absent
Main pulmonary arteries. Narayana Hrudayalaya is one of the few institutions
in the world where unifocalisation procedures are done to treat this dreadful problem.

One Stage Operation for Swiss Cheese VSDs
Traditionally Swiss Cheese VSDs in which there are multiple holes in the heart are corrected in two stages. However, Narayana Hrudayalaya has performed over over 200 operations on children with Swiss Cheese VSDs in one stage by closing all the holes in the heart.

Mitral Valve Repair in New Born Babies and Infants
Mitral Valve leakage is a dreadful condition affecting small percentage of children suffering from congenital heart disease. Only option for these children is repair of the valve, which is done on a regular basis at Narayana Hrudayalaya.

Ross's Procedure for Aortic Stenosis
Best treatment option for Aortic Stensosis is Ross's Procedure in which the patient's own pulmonary valve is used to replace the aortic valve and in the place of pulmonary valve a homograft taken from a dead body is replaced.

Coronary Artery Neo-Roofing Procedure
There are thousands of patients especially Diabetics, who develop diffuse coronary artery disease, which cannot be grafted surgically. For these patients, Narayana Hrudayalaya perform an innovative procedure called Neo-roofing.




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