Heart Transplant Surgery in India

Heart Transplant Surgery in India

World Health Expert deals with all International patients to have best of its operation in India, under guidance of experts. A heart transplant is a surgical procedure performed to remove the diseased heart from a patient and replace it with a healthy one from an organ donor. To remove the heart from the donor, two or more doctors must declare the donor brain-dead. Before the transplantation is performed World Health Experts in India take full consideration of determining that the best treatment option will be provided to the patient. Before surgery it is important to know that the heart is matching patient’s heart in terms of tissue. So that there can be no rejection post surgery.

Need for Heart Transplant Surgery

Heart transplantation is performed to replace a failing heart that cannot be adequately treated by other means. Congestive heart failure (CHF) being the major cause of this. It is the end stage heart failure where heart muscles severely fails to pump blood and under which no other treatment can help the patient to recover from this disease . This is the final stage of heart failure. The term failure does not means that the heart has stopped beating rather it is found that the heart is not a healthy one now as it fails to pump the blood adequately and becomes weak topump blood with the same pace.
Some causes of CHF, or weakening of the heart muscle, may include the following:

  • Irregular hear beats
  • Congential heart conditions
  • Viral infections in the heart
  • Myocardial infraction
  • Hypertension
  • Drug abuse
  • Suffering from Anemia
  • Pulmonary hypertension (elevated blood pressure within the lungs’ blood vessels)
  • Chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Cardiomyopathy (an enlargement of the heart muscle)

There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend heart transplantation.
On the contrary these following candidates can not go under heart surgery.

  • Candidates, who are malnourished
  • People older than 55 years of age
  • Who already had a severe stroke
  • Those who suffer frm cancer
  • Those who have diabetes or are insulin dependent
  • Candidates with pulmonary hypertension, which thicken the vessels of blood present in the lungs
  • Candidates with drug addiction

Heart Transplant Surgery Procedure

World Health Expert in India provides full support and guidance for the procedure. This procedure involves general anesthesia that is given to patient prior to the operation. The heart is initially brought at rest, by applying some solutions over it, and instantly a heat lung bypass machine is connected to it to supply oxygen to lungs and body parts. Now the damaged heart is safely removed from the chamber and donor’s heart is replaced at the position. After the replacement of the heart, the heart-lung machine is then removed. The blood then starts flowing through the heart to the parts of the body. Heart Transplant Surgery in India has highest success rates & hundreds of patient across the globe got their heart transplant surgery done in India at best heart transplant hospital in India.

Some exceptional cases involve non replacement of earlier heart but adding another heart over it this type of transplantation is called Heterotopic transplant. After the heart is removed special tubes are inserted in the chest to drain the blood and air, which carry on for several days.

Risks involved:

Two types of issues may arise one related to anesthesia and the other with surgery and transplantation.

The risks related from the anesthesia are

  • Breathing problems
  • Reactions found from the medicine
  • Rejection of medicine, may affect the liver, kidney or other organs
  • Blood clots that leads to attack
  • Rejection preventing drugs, causing development of cancer
  • Problems with heart rhythm, heart attack or other coronary artery disease
  • Rejection to the new heart
  • Wound infections not sterlizing
  • Increased diabetes, cholesterol levels and thinning of the bone from the medicine

After Heart Transplant Surgery

World Health Expert provides best of its services in India to International clients. Once the heart is transplanted the patient have to stay in hospital for 7 to 21 days under special guidance and observation and in intensive care unit from 24 to 48 hours. The first year after the surgery  require follow ups on regular basis as it is very critical phase to ensure less infection.

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