Pacemaker Surgery in India | Best Cardiologist Hospital Doctor Cost | Gurgaon | Punjab

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 slow heart beat or bradycardia is done in India with high success rate through Pacemaker Insertion at some of the best hospitals by top doctors.

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.

PACEMAKER INSERTION

Pacemaker is a battery operated electronic device that is used by cardiologists in India to regulate the rhythm of heart beat of the patient. In India it is mostly done in cases of patients with problem of low heart rate called bradycardia. The pacemaker device sends small impulses to the heart to maintain the normal heart rate. A pacemaker insertion is different from ICD. Both Pacemaker and ICD are implanted in the chest of the patient but pacemaker can only send low impulse to the heart whereas an ICD can send low and high impluse. Also ICD can be used both for slow and fast heart rate whereas pacemaker is for slow heart rate.

Pacemaker is minimally invasive procedure performed by interventional cardiologist. In India pacemaker insertion is very common. There are certain restrictions post pacemaker insertion. You cannot undergo MRI scan and also cannot come in the area of magnetic interference.

COST OF PACEMAKER IN INDIA

Patients from across the world come to India for getting the pacemaker surgery done in India. Apart from some of the best cardiologist and heart specialist that are available in India the low cost benefit that the patient gets in India is of paramount importance. Cost of Pacemaker surgery in India ranges between INR 2,50,000 to INR 4,00,000 depending upon the type of the pacemaker implanted. The saty in hospital in normal circumstances is 2-3 days maximum. Dr Sanjeev Chaudhary and Dr M S Sandhu in Gurgaon and Dr Sandeep Parekh in Mohali are some of the best cardiologist and heart specialist in Gurgaon, India for the pacemaker 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.