HEART CONDITIONS

Heart Disease is the number one cause of untimely deaths in the world. Bad lifestyle choices is the main cause for cardiac disease. Fatty food, lack of exercise, stress, smoking and alcohol are bad for heart health. Genetics also plays an important role in heart disease. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the most common amongst the heart diseases. Another problem that is common is irregular heart beats, medically called arrhythmia. The treatment for this is very common and successful in India through pacemaker and Implantable Cadioverter Difibrillator (ICD) device. ICD device is also implanted for patients suffering from heart failure.

Other heart diseases include blockage in heart arteries, calcification or blockage in aortic or mitral valve, hole in the heart, increase in the heart size, reduced blood pumping etc. Patients with irregular heart rate, Cardiac or Heart Failure are also very commonly treated in India by the heart specialist through pacemaker and ICD devices.

ICD IMPLANT IN INDIA

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator or ICD is an electronic device which is implanted in the chest to for correcting the irregular heart beats or arrhythmia. Irregular heart beat can be either fast or slow. The ICD device helps in regularizing the heart rate by giving a small shock to the heart when it is going fast or slow.

There are three types of ICD devices that are used by cardiologist in India Single Chamber ICD, Dual Chamber ICD and Biventricular Device. Single Chamber ICD device is used by heart specialist in India for patients who just have problem in the right ventricle whereas the dual chamber ICD device is used in India for the patients to manage right ventricle as well as right atrium. Best of the lot is Biventricular Device that is used by heart specialist in India for patients having loss of cardiac muscle as well as heart failure as it manages right ventricle, right atrium and left ventricle. In short it can be called as artifical or mechanical heart.

COST OF ICD IN INDIA

ICD device implant procedure is done very commonly in India with very high success rates. The cost of ICD device implanation in India can be between USD 10000 to USD 19000 depending upon the type of device being used. Cost of a single chamber device would be low as compared to a biventricular device. Hospital stay for the procedure is about 2-3 days and procedure takes about 2 to 4 hours. Dr Sanjeev Chaudhary and Dr SS Bansal in Gurgaon, Dr Sandeep Parekh in Mohali, Punjab are considered as the best cardiologist in India for the ICD device surgery.

Return airfare to India from most of the countries of the world are in the range of USD 1000 - 1500. 3 star hotels are available for less than USD 100 for two people per day. The cost of food and local travel is also less than USD 50 for two persons for each day of stay in the country.

Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon

Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon

Metro Hospital, Faridabad