MANIPAL HOSPITAL Inside a Centre of Excellence Manipal Heart Foundation (MHF) at Manipal Hospital best In cardiac surgeries, MHF does everything that the best of exemplifies the value added by structuring the institution hospitals in the West can do. Bypass Surgeries, Beating around several Centres of Excellence. The Foundation is Heart Surgeries, & Valve Replacements are routine at the one of the largest comprehensive heart Foundation, while it has a proven track care centres in India. With a track record record in rare, congenital, & redo of over 8500 cardiac surgeries and over surgeries – the kind not attempted at 17,000 cardiac procedures, within the many cardiac surgery departments. last 7 years itself, Manipal Heart Some of the challenging cases Foundation outperforms even some of undertaken at MHF include Triple the dedicated heart hospitals, in Valve Replacements, Left Ventricular capacity. And it is still moving ahead at Aneurysm Reconstruction, Bentall an amazing pace – up to 15 heart Procedure, Ross Procedure, & Surgery surgeries and 30 cardiac procedures, for Aortic Dissection. MHF has also everyday! But it is not size alone that successfully undertaken complex open differentiates MHF. For one, the heart surgeries under Total Circulatory Foundation has an amazing success rate Arrest. In Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Nagendra Swamy, Director - Medical Services & of 98%, in tune with the best hospitals MHF takes up challenging assignments Postgraduate Studies, Manipal Hospital in the West. Of equal importance is also like Arterial Switch, Double Switch, the fact that, MHF offers the entire range of treatments for Repair of Uni-ventricular Hearts, & Rastelli Surgeries – cardiac diseases, both for adults & children. It is one among again, something only a handful of hospitals in the world the handful of institutions in the whole world, which can can do. The team led by Dr. N.S. Devananda is specialised stake such a claim – spanning cardiac surgeries, invasive in Open Heart Surgeries for neonates with congenital cardiac procedures, cardiac electrophysiology services, & conditions like TGA; the complex surgeries often non-invasive cardiac tests. undertaken within hours of birth! The superb team at MHF led by Cardiologist Dr. Subash Chandra, Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Ganesh Krishnan Iyer, and Cardiac Anaesthesia Head Dr. M. Nagaraja Gowda, ensures that MHF has one of the best cardiac expertise in the world. The deployment of multiple state-of-the-art Operation Theatres, advanced equipment like the GE Innova Catheterisation Lab, a modern Intensive Coronary Care Unit (ICCU), & perhaps the country’s most advanced Electro-Physiology Lab, has enabled MHF surgeons & specialists to take any cardiac challenge head on.
The non-invasive cardiac procedures undertaken at MHF are also comprehensive, with all standard procedures like Angioplasty, Valvuloplasty, Device Closure of ASD/VSD etc undertaken. A notable achievement of the department is the large number of patients it has successfully treated in rheumatic valvular disease and various congenital diseases. The Centre excels in peripheral vascular interventions like peripheral angioplasty with stenting, and percutaneous treatments with covered stents & stent grafts. Cardiac Electrophysiology services include diagnostics, treatment of arrhythmias using radio frequency ablation, & permanent pacemaker implantation. And it goes without saying that the entire range of non-invasive cardiac tests like electrocardiography, echocardiography, stress testing, Holter studies etc., are available at the Foundation. But the real excellence of Manipal Heart Foundation is that all these non-surgical and surgical procedures in cardiology are provided to patients at very affordable costs, without compromising on quality even a bit.