BARIATRIC SURGERY
Bariatric surgery commonly known as weight-loss surgery is done on patients who are extremely obese and would not achieve weight loss through conventional diet plans or exercise. In this surgery, a Gastric Band is implanted on the stomach to reduce its si...
Angiography
Angiography is a Diagnostic Test done under Fluoroscopy to determine the blockage in the Coronary or Peripheral Arteries. A radio-opaque agent is injected an the body and fluoroscope takes running images of the flow of that agent to determine the blockage...
Balloon Angioplasty
Balloon angioplasty of the coronary artery, or PercutaneousTransluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), was introduced in the late 1970’s. PTCA is a non-surgical procedure that relieves narrowing and obstruction of the arteries to the muscle of the hea...
Heart Valve Surgery
There are four valves in your heart: Aortic valve Mitral valve Tricuspid valve Pulmonary valve Heart valve surgery is used to repair or replace diseased heart valves. Blood that flows between different chambers of your heart must flow through a heart valv...
PACE MAKER IMPLANTATION (PPI)
A Pace Maker is implanted on the upper portion of the chest with its leads going in various chambers of heart. This is done to correct various kinds of Arrhythmias such as Brady (Slow Heart Rate) and Tachy (Very High Heart Rate) Arrhythmias. A Cardiac Pac...
HEART TRANSPLANT
A Heart Transplant is done a patient with end stage heart failure or very severe Coronary Artery Disease. A brain dead donor or recently deceased person’s heart is removed and implanted in to the patient after doing several blood and tissue matching...
Partial Knee replacement and Total Knee replacement
When you have a total knee replacement, the surgeon removes damaged cartilage and bone from the surface of your knee joint and replaces them with a man-made surface of metal and plastic. In a partial knee replacement, the surgeon only replaces one part of...
Total Hip Replacement
Total hip replacement surgery replaces the upper end of the thighbone (femur) with a metal ball and resurfaces the hip socket in the pelvic bone with a metal shell and plastic liner. Total hip replacement surgery replaces damaged cartilage with new joint ...
The Hip Resurfacing
In hip resurfacing, the femoral head is not removed, but is instead trimmed and capped with a smooth metal covering. The damaged bone and cartilage within the socket is removed and replaced with a metal shell, just as in a traditional total hip replacemen...
Spinal Disc Replacement
The use of an artificial disc to replace a damaged spinal disc that is generating chronic back pain. There are a wide variety of new products, procedures and techniques currently in development to enhance spine surgery, and many spine surgeons believe tha...