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Cardiac Diagnosis Check-Up
Cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer of our era. According to data from the World Health Organization, it is responsible for 49% of deaths in Europe and 35% of deaths before the age of 65. A preventive health check is not just about...
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Coronary Angiography
Coronary angiography (an-jee-OG-ra-fee) is a test that uses dye and special x-rays to show the inside of your coronary arteries. The coronary arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart.
A material called plaque (plak) can build up on the...
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Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA or PCI)
Coronary angioplasty is a procedure that opens blocked arteries and allows blood to flow to your heart muscle. Angioplasty is not surgery. It opens a clogged coronary artery by inflating a tiny balloon in it. Each year more than a million people...
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
A CABG is 'open-heart' surgery to treat coronary artery disease. A CABG uses a blood vessel (called a graft) taken from your chest, leg or arm to bypass a narrowed or blocked coronary artery.
If you have coronary artery disease, your coronary...
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Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) - noninvasive
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a noninvasive technique to treat chronic stable chest pain (angina). Angina occurs when the heart muscle does not get enough blood and oxygen to support the work it is doing. Many people experience...
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Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
What is Heart Valve Surgery?
Heart valve surgery is needed when a heart valve doesn't work right. A valve may not open all the way. Or, a valve may have problems closing. If this happens, blood doesn't move through the heart's chambers the...
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Implantable Cardioverter and Defibrillator (ICD)
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) — a pager-sized device which is implanted in your chest like a pacemaker — may reduce your risk of dying if your heart stops beating (cardiac arrest). You may need an implantable...
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Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB)
Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB) is a minimally invasive approach to conventional Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery. MIDCAB is beating heart surgery, which means that stopping the heart (cardioplegia) is not...
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Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB)
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has conventionally been an operation that requires the use of the heart lung machine. For selected patients, surgeons have designed an innovative way to bypass blocked arteries on the heart without the use...
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Pacemaker Implantation
A pacemaker is a small device that's placed under the skin of your chest or abdomen to help control abnormal heart rhythms. This device uses electrical pulses to prompt the heart to beat at a normal rate. Pacemakers are used to treat heart...
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Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
PDA is a heart problem that is usually noted in the first few weeks or months after birth. It is characterized by a connection between the aorta and the pulmonary artery which allows oxygen-rich (red) blood that should go to the body to...
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Rehabilitation Program
The rehabilitation programs are aimed at individuals who suffer from chronic conditions, skeletal or muscle injuries or require aid in recovery after a surgical intervention.
The program includes:
- Interview and discussion about their...
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Stenting
A stent is a wire metal mesh tube used to prop open an artery during angioplasty. The stent is collapsed to a small diameter and put over a balloon catheter. It's then moved into the area of the blockage. When the balloon is inflated, the stent...
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Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (TECAB)
Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) is the least invasive coronary artery bypass grafting operation. The bypass graft is placed through tiny holes without any opening of the chest. In comparison to coronary artery bypass grafting...
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Transmyocardial Laser Revascularisation (TMLR)
TMLR is a type of surgery that uses a laser to make tiny channels through the heart muscle and into the lower-left chamber of the heart (the left ventricle). The left ventricle is the heart's main pumping chamber.
After TMLR, when oxygen-rich...
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Valvuloplasty
Valvuloplasty is performed, in certain circumstances, to open a stenotic (stiff) heart valve. In valvuloplasty, a very small, narrow, hollow tube, or catheter, is advanced from a blood vessel in the groin through the aorta into the heart. Once...
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