Heart Surgery

The specialised Heart Centre is one of the best of its kind in its field providing the quality and care at an expected international standard. The Heart Centre also receives many patient referrals from numerous other hospitals in the region.

The Heart Centre is dedicated in delivering every aspect of cardiovascular care, including all of the following interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, advanced heart failure and cardiovascular surgery. Of course as is widely known and accepted prevention is better than cure that is the reason why The Heart Centre uses a comprehensive holistic approach ranging from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

The Hospital Heart Centre provides the latest technology and the very best in medical care and service ensuring that you will be guaranteed of the best treatment available and enabling you re recuperate.

The following facilities are offered.

• Cardiac Diagnostic Investigation Centre very best and
• Cardiac Imaging (64 Slices Spiral CT Scan)
• Outpatient consultation centre
• Non-Invasive cardiac testing
• Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
• Electrophysiology Laboratory
• Cardiac surgery operating theatres
• 8 beds dedicated to Coronary Care Unit(CCU)
• Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring Unit
• Mobile CCU
• MRI

The following interventions are also available

• CAG
• PTCA and Stenting
• Transradial coronary angiogram and angioplasty(Without hospital admission)
• Rotablafor (Drill the calcium in the heart)
• ASD, PFO and PDA closure(Close the hole in the heart)
• Mitral Valvuloplasty(Dilate the heart valve)
• Alcohol septal ablation(Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy)
• Intravascular Ultrasound(Study inside the artery)
• IVC filter(for pulmonary embolism)
• Cell therapy

Other heart relate services

• Cardiac Diagnostic Investigation
• EKG
• Exercise Stress Testing (EST)
• Exercise Echocardiography
• 24 hour Holter (EKG) monitoring
• Tilt Table Test
• Echocardiography
• Paediatric Echo & Foetal Echocardiography (TEE): Multi-plane
• Dobutamine Stress Echo
• Vascular Screening: Detect atherosclerosis
• Open Heart Surgery
• Other cardiac surgical interventions

The Cardiac Team comprises of Surgeons, Cardiologists, Operating Nurses and CCU Nurses which have been selected and assembled due to their individual expertise in all fields of cardiac care. To enable the quality of operations and service you would expect ,all aspects are being constantly monitored and improved in order for you to be able receive and experience the highest international standards, with all the procedures being carried out with the most up to date technology and techniques.

Cardiac Treatment

• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA):Balloon
• 24-Hour Emergency Cardiac intervention (PTCA): within 30 minutes to allow immediate intervention to reduce the effects of an acute heart attack.
• Vulvuloplasty(balloon Valve treatment)
• Coronary artery stenting
• Electrophysiology(Arrhythmia) Treatment including ablation
• Peacemaker implantation
• AICD(Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator)

Cardiothorasic Surgery

• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft(CABG)Open heart surgery
• Valve replacement Surgery
• Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
• VSD (Ventricular Septal Defect) Closure
• ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
• PDA (Patent Ductus Arterious) Ligation
• TOF (Total correction: Four abnormalities correction)
• Cardiac Anaesthesiology

Cardiac Intensive Care

• Cardiac Ambulance
• Remote Telemetry Unity
• Intra-aortic Balloon Pump
• External/Temporary Pacemaker