If you have chest pain right now, or pain spreading to your arm, jaw or back with sweating or breathlessness, call an ambulance immediately. A heart attack is treated in hours at the nearest hospital. Do not wait, do not arrange travel, and do not message us first.
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Interventional Cardiologist
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Source reviewed · 16 August 2026. Current appointment, registration and clinical role are reconfirmed before referral.
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Source reviewed · 16 August 2026. Current appointment, registration and clinical role are reconfirmed before referral.
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Each has its own page explaining what it is, how it is diagnosed, and how the treatment decision is actually made. If your diagnosis is not listed, send the reports anyway — cardiac disease rarely presents as a single tidy label.
Hospital stays below are typical rather than promised, and assume an uncomplicated course. Cost figures are the ranges quoted to us by the hospitals we work with, and your written opinion will give you a figure for your own case.
Blocked coronary arteries are bypassed using healthy vessels taken from the chest wall, leg or forearm. It remains the strongest treatment for disease affecting several arteries at once, and for the left main artery. Surgeons in Delhi NCR perform both conventional on-pump and beating-heart (off-pump) bypass.
A catheter is passed from the wrist or groin to the blocked artery, the narrowing is opened with a balloon, and a drug-eluting stent holds it open. There is no surgical incision and no sternum to heal, which is why recovery is measured in days rather than weeks.
A damaged valve is either repaired or replaced. Repair is preferred wherever the valve allows it, because it preserves your own tissue and avoids the trade-offs that come with a prosthetic valve. Where replacement is necessary, the choice between a mechanical and a tissue valve is the single most consequential decision you will make — see the warning below before you agree to anything.
A replacement aortic valve is delivered by catheter, without opening the chest. It was developed for patients considered too high-risk for conventional surgery, and is now used more widely. The device itself accounts for most of the cost, which is why TAVI is substantially more expensive than surgical valve replacement.
A pacemaker corrects a heart that beats too slowly or irregularly; an implantable defibrillator treats dangerous rhythms in patients at risk of sudden cardiac death. Both are implanted under local anaesthetic with sedation.
Correction of defects children are born with — atrial and ventricular septal defects, patent ductus arteriosus, tetralogy of Fallot, coarctation of the aorta. This work needs a dedicated paediatric cardiac intensive care unit and a paediatric perfusion team, which not every hospital advertising cardiac surgery actually has. It is one of the first things we check.
An enlarged section of the aorta is repaired, either by open surgery or by placing a stent graft through the arteries (EVAR or TEVAR). Which is appropriate depends on where the aneurysm sits and its shape, not on preference.
Two kinds of prosthetic valve exist, and the choice between them is the most consequential decision you will make. It is not really a question about valves. It is a question about where you live.
Durable and will usually outlast you. But it requires warfarin for the rest of your life, and warfarin requires regular INR blood tests. Too little and you risk a clot; too much and you risk a bleed.
Avoids anticoagulation entirely, so no INR monitoring is needed. It typically needs replacing after ten to fifteen years, and a second operation carries its own risk.
Not which valve is better, but whether reliable INR monitoring exists near your home. If it does not, a mechanical valve can turn a successful operation into a lifelong hazard.
For a patient in their seventies that trade-off looks very different than for a patient of thirty. Dr. Varughese will go through it with you against your own age, your country and what monitoring you can realistically access, before you commit to anything — and it is a question a surgeon quoting you a price from another country may never think to ask.
India's major cardiac centres perform bypass and valve surgery in numbers most hospitals in Europe never reach. In cardiac surgery, the relationship between how often a team does an operation and how well it goes is one of the most consistent findings in the literature.
The same operation, with the same class of implant, at a fifth to a third of European or American prices. The saving is not in the quality of the device or the surgeon — it is in the underlying cost of running a hospital in India.
No waiting list. For unstable coronary disease or severe valve disease, the interval between diagnosis and treatment is itself a clinical risk, and in Delhi NCR that interval is measured in days.
None of this means India is the right answer for everyone, and the section below sets out plainly who should not travel.
For cardiac work we apply five tests, in this order.
Cardiac surgery carries real risk of death and of serious complication. The figures vary enormously by procedure, by your age, and by what other conditions you have. Any company that quotes you a success rate without seeing your reports is quoting you a marketing number. Ask your surgeon for the risk in your case, and ask them for their own unit's figures rather than national averages.
If any of these describe you, tell us immediately and we will say so plainly rather than book you a flight. We have done this before and we would rather lose the case than take it.
This needs treatment where you are, immediately. Do not board a plane. Go to your nearest emergency department.
If you are breathless at rest or unable to lie flat, you need stabilising locally before travel can even be discussed.
Fainting from aortic stenosis is a warning sign that carries a serious short-term risk. Air travel may not be safe without local assessment first.
A bypass or valve patient, from first message to landing back home.
After bypass or valve surgery, most patients are cleared to fly two to three weeks after the operation, and we plan your return date accordingly rather than booking it in advance. After angioplasty it is usually within a week. Your surgeon signs the fitness-to-fly assessment, not us, and airlines can refuse boarding without it.
This depends heavily on where you live, and it is the question we spend most time on. A mechanical valve lasts decades but requires warfarin for life, with regular INR blood tests. If reliable anticoagulation monitoring is not available near your home, that is a serious consideration rather than a detail. A tissue valve avoids lifelong blood thinners but may need replacing after ten to fifteen years. Dr. Varughese will discuss both against your own circumstances before you travel.
Yes, and paediatric congenital cases are among the most common we arrange. What matters is that the hospital has a dedicated paediatric cardiac intensive care unit and a paediatric perfusion team — we verify that before recommending anywhere. Plan for four to six weeks in India, and bring one parent as an attendant on a medical attendant visa.
No. Do not stop or change any cardiac medication without instruction from the doctor who prescribed it. Bring your medicines with you, along with a written list of names and doses, since brand names differ between countries.
Neither is better in general — they treat different patterns of disease. Angioplasty suits disease in one or two vessels and has a far shorter recovery. Bypass is usually the stronger option for disease in several vessels, disease in the left main artery, and for many patients with diabetes. Your angiogram determines the answer, which is why we ask for it.
Your discharge summary, imaging and operative notes go with you and are sent to your own doctor. We arrange remote follow-up reviews with the consultant who treated you, and if a local doctor needs to speak to them, we set that up. This is included, not an extra service.
For cardiac surgery, yes — one attendant is strongly advisable and the Indian medical attendant visa exists for exactly this. Accommodation for your attendant is part of what we arrange.
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