Cardiology

About Cardiology

Cardiac Surgery:-

Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery is dedicated to providing the safest and highest-quality surgery for our patients. We offer virtually every type of adult cardiac surgery in Gaya's KMH hospital including elective or emergency surgery for heart valve disease, aortic aneurysm, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, heart failure, Marfan syndrome and other less common conditions. Cardiac surgery at our hospital is done by the heart surgeons with vast experience and expertise in several areas of cardiac surgery, cardio-vascular surgery and thoracic surgery.

The hospital has all facilities from taking a simple ECG to the most complex coronary interventions like Primary Angioplasty, use of rotablators, multi-vessel angioplasty, IVUS (Intra Vascular Ultrasound) imaging guided optimal stentings, implantation of anti heart failure devices to name a few. These are carried out by the Philips 'Clear View' Flat Panel Detector Cath Lab. Such state-of-the-art equipment and technology is available in but a few centers in the country.

The department is run by trained team of Interventional and non interventional Cardiologist. Cardiologists here carry out high volumes of procedures daily.

Facilities/Services

> ECG (Electro Cardiography) with 16 lead capability
> TMT (Treadmill test or Stress test):

Stress test of the heart is an established method of detecting the functional reserve of the heart.

> 2D Echo: Echocardiography (echo):

The use of ultrasound to examine the heart - is a safe, powerful, non - invasive and painless technique.

> High-end Real-time 3D Echo/ 4D Echo:

This Echocardiography machine is capable of adult, paediatric, neonatal and fetal echo, transoesophageal echo, Q lab analysis, stress echo, myocardial perfusion imaging .

> Vascular Elasticity/Arterial Stiffness:

The instrument measures the arterial stiffness and determines the age of your vessels. The loss of vascular elasticity is the earliest change in vessels before the blocks starts developing.

> Carotid intimal media thickness:

This again gives the earliest evidence of health of blood vessels and early treatment can prevent formation of new blocks.

> TEE (Trans Esophageal Echocardiogram):

The TEE uses a transducer mounted upon a modified probe similar to those used for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and allows examination of the heart without a barrier to ultrasound usually provided by the ribs, chest wall and lungs. By advancing the probe tip to various depths in the oesophagus and stomach, manoeuvring the tip of the transducer and by altering the angle of the ultrasound beam with controls placed on the handle, a number of different views of the heart can be obtained.

> DSE (Dobutamine Stress Echo):

This type of echocardiography aids in the diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease. It helps to localize the site and quantifies the extent of ischaemia by the demonstration of regional wall motion and thickness abnormality with stress which is not present at rest.

> Non Invasive Multi-slice CT Coronary Angiography (CTCA):

CT-Coronary Angiography is new, non-invasive direct procedure to assess blockage and condition of coronary arteries. The procedure is of just 5 minutes with overall duration of 1 hour in the hospital. For emergency cases CTCA can help to segregate non-cardiac chest pains. A normal CTCA has 100% negative predictive value. In addition, it helps to identify the types of plaques and degree of blockage along the arteries, the status of Heart Chambers, Cardiac Muscles, Valves, Aorta & Pulmonary vessels and Development of collaterals