Heart Surgery in India at Mumbai and delhi at Affordable Cost

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Mumabi, Maharashtra, India, Republic of (Free-Press-Release.com) June 18, 2011 -- What Is Heart Surgery ?

Heart surgery is used to correct heart problems in children and adults. This article discusses heart surgeries for adults.

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). During CABG, surgeons use healthy arteries or veins taken from another part of the body to bypass (that is, go around) blocked arteries. CABG relieves chest pain and reduces the risk of heart attack.
Heart surgery also is done to : -

• Repair or replace valves that control blood flow through the heart

• Repair abnormal or damaged structures in the heart
• Implant medical devices that regulate heart rhythms or blood flow
• Replace a damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor (heart transplant)

Traditional heart surgery, often called "open heart surgery," is done by opening the chest wall to operate on the heart. Almost always, the chest is opened by cutting through a patient's breastbone. Once the heart is exposed, the patient is connected to a heart-lung bypass machine. The machine takes over the pumping action of the heart. This allows surgeons to operate on a still heart.

In recent years, new ways of doing heart surgery have been developed. One new way is called off-pump, or beating heart, surgery. It's like traditional open-heart surgery, but it doesn't use a heart-lung bypass machine.

Minimally invasive heart surgery uses smaller incisions (cuts) than traditional open-heart surgery. Some types of minimally invasive heart surgery use a heart-lung bypass machine and others don't.

These new methods may reduce risks and speed up recovery time. Studies are under way to compare these new types of heart surgery to traditional open-heart surgery. The results of these studies will help doctors decide the best procedure to use for each patient. Outlook

The results of heart surgery in adults are often excellent. For very ill people with severe heart problems, heart surgery can reduce symptoms, improve quality of life, and increase lifespan.


Types of Heart Surgery

Different types of heart surgery are used to fix different heart problems. : -


Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting : >>

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common type of heart surgery. More than 500,000 of these surgeries are done each year in India. CABG improves blood flow to the heart. It's used for people with severe coronary artery disease (CAD).

In CAD, a fatty material called plaque builds up inside your coronary (heart) arteries. It narrows the arteries and limits blood flow to your heart muscle. CAD can cause angina , shortness of breath, and can even lead to a heart attack.

During CABG, a surgeon takes a vein or an artery from your chest, your leg, or another part of your body and connects, or grafts, it to the blocked artery. The grafted artery bypasses (that is, goes around) the blockage. This allows oxygen-rich blood to reach the heart muscle. Surgeons can bypass as many as four blocked coronary arteries during one surgery.

Sometimes you can choose between CABG and angioplasty to treat CAD. Talk to your doctor about these different treatments.


Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization : >>

Transmyocardial laser revascularization or TLR, is a surgery used to treat angina when no other treatments work. For example, if you've already had one CABG procedure and can't have another one, TLR may be an option. This type of heart surgery isn't common.

During TLR, the surgeon uses lasers to make channels in the heart muscle. These channels allow oxygen-rich blood to flow from a heart chamber directly into the heart muscle.


Valve Repair or Replacement : >>

For the heart to work right, blood must flow in only one direction. The heart's valves make this possible. Healthy valves open and close in a precise way as the heart pumps blood.

Each valve has a set of flaps called leaflets. The leaflets open to allow blood to pass from the heart chambers into the arteries. Then the leaflets close tightly to stop blood from flowing back into the chambers.

Heart surgery is done to fix leaflets that don't open as wide as they should. This can happen when they become thick or stiff or fuse together. As a result, not enough blood flows through the valve into the artery. Heart surgery also is done to fix leaflets that don't close tightly. This means blood can leak backward into the chambers, rather than only moving forward into the artery as it should.

To fix these problems, surgeons either repair the valve or replace it. Replacement valves are taken from animals, made from human tissue, or made from man-made substances.
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