Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

MALADIES MIGHT BE MANY. BUT OUR FINAL GOAL IS ALWAYS WELLBEING.

The department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery at Meenakshi Hospital, Thanjavur is the first of its kind to provide cardiac surgical services to the population in and around the Delta region of Tamil Nadu. A record-breaking total of more than 2418 cardiac and cardiothoracic procedures is displayed on the scorecard.

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Facilities

  • Front runner in routinely performing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) on beating hearts.
  • The most established and foremost Centre for conducting surgeries related to heart, chest and lungs in Delta region of Tamil Nadu
  • Congenital Heart Surgeries are done. In these, common operations like Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva (RSOV), Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) and Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) are being done routinely.

Milestones

15000+

Bypass surgeries performed

1000+

Beating heart surgeries performed annually

Facilities

  • Trans Esophageal Echocardiography is used by the cardiac anesthesiologist during mitral valve repair and heart failure surgeries as well as in immediate postoperative assessment. It has also become imperative for the successful outcome of these surgeries.
  • Minimal invasive cardiac surgeries are performed.
  • Thoracoscopic lung surgeries are being performed.

Treatments & Procedures

Procedures Routinely Done

  • Off pump CABG
  • Valve replacement and valve repair
  • All forms of congenital heart defect corrections
  • ASDs
  • VSDs
  • TOF
  • DORV with or without pulmonary stenosis
  • AV canal defect repair with or without mitral regurgitation
  • Surgery for cardiac tamponade
  • Pericardiectomy
  • All forms of traumatic cardiac injury repairs
  • Varicose vein surgery /EVLT - ENDOVENOUS LASER THERAPY FOR VARICOSE VEINS OFFERED HERE
  • All forms of Vascular Repair and Embolectomy

Uniportal Vats

  • The first hospital in south India to offer Uniportal
  • VATS program
  • Decortication
  • VATS biopsy and pleurodesis

Mics Program

We have a vibrant MICS program and to-date have the largest series in South India for Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Cases.

All forms of ASD, VSD, some Mitral Valve problems, some Aortic Valve problems and some CABGs are done through minimally invasive approach at Meenakshi Hospital, Tanjore.

Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Ecmo)

Only very few cardiac surgical centers in India have the ability to place a sick patient on ECMO and we at MHT are one among them. The ECMO machine is in-house and can be used for high risk cases. This is all provided at affordable cost.

Congenital Surgery Under Rbsk Program

Through RBSK scheme, we have till date performed more than 300 paediatric surgical procedures, all under minimally invasive approach with 100% success rate.

Doctors

Dr. P. SURESH BABU

MBBS,MS,DNB,MCh, MNAMS, Diploma-Diab(UK)
Senior Consultant

Dr. R. VIGNESH

MBBS,MS,MCh,DNB,FPCS (Paediatric Cardiac Surgery)
Associate Consultant

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