Medical Tourism

With heart surgery costs sky rocketing in the North America and Europe, no wonder the patients are deciding to get their heart surgery in other countries. India heart surgery centers offer the treatment at significantly lower prices. The surgery here may cost only 40% of its usual cost in the United States.

The quality of healthcare in this country is excellent, as they have many internationally-trained cardiac surgeons and JCI accredited hospitals. Many cardiac surgeons who accept foreign patients have trained in the United States in Europe, and welcome the chance of treating medical tourists who come to get their services for much lower costs.

Heart Surgery Technology in India

India’s competitiveness when it comes to state of the art facilities and latest medical developments further attracts medical tourists. Minimally-invasive heart surgery is one of the popular procedures in India. In this type of procedure, instead of opening the thoracic cavity to expose the chest area, only small incisions are made (keyholes). Advantages of minimally-invasive heart surgery include:

• Smaller incision

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India has a much lower cost of living than countries in the first world. Because of this there healthcare costs are comparatively lower and like many other procedures, cosmetic surgery in India is popular among Americans, Canadians, Europeans, and even people from the Asia-Pacific region. Patients also flock to this country in South Asia because of their international hospitals and skilled Indian plastic surgeons, who boast of international training and experience.

Cosmetic Surgery Cost in India

The cost of cosmetic surgery in India can be 50-70% lower than in the US or UK. Those travelling to India also find that airfare is easily offset by hugely inexpensive medical fees, hotel rates, transportation costs, and other fees related to the trip. Patients who contact medical tourism companies also find it very handy that their itinerary for hospital visits and their accommodations and in-country transportation services are taken care of for their convenience.

Indian Cosmetic Surgeons and Hospitals

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Anterior hip replacement in India is one of the most sought-after procedures by medical tourists who go to South Asia for orthopaedic surgery. A lot of patients who have hip injuries that warrant hip replacement surgery decide on getting the anterior approach because of the shorter recovery time it requires after the procedure.

Apart from hip replacement, people come to India for knee surgery.

What is Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery?

In hip replacement, implants or prostheses are put in place of the hip joint structures in order to relieve the patient’s pain in this area. Hip replacement surgery usually involves one of the following approaches: posterior, lateral, antero-lateral, or anterior.

Traditionally, during surgery the hip joints are accessed from the back or the side, but these methods usually require the detachment of several thigh and hip muscles from the pelvis or femur. The anterior approach avoids that by using the muscles’ natural intervals so they are left untouched. It is minimally-invasive this way, and so it is preferred by patients who want shorter

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Renowned neuro-radiologist from India talks about liberation therapy for CCSVI in MS patients. He also shares his education and experience.

Liberation Therapy for CCSVI - Surgeon Interview Narration

“I am a trained international neuro-radiologist, my 100 percent of practicing now focusing on neuro-vascular procedures. And we treat brain aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations. We do Thrombolysis and Acute Stroke. We do carotid or any other brain arterio angioplasty as well.

Other procedures we do – we do liberation procedure for CCSVI, for patients in MS, which is an ongoing study in our institution. I was trained as a radiologist and then I was trained as neuro-radiologist, I became faculty in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which is one of the most premiere research and teaching institution in the country. After working there as faculty I resigned. Now I head the interventional neuro-radiology unit.

I have done short time fellowships abroad in Green Clinic as well as in France and Paris, and I have over 50 publications, including 30 international publications to my name. I am a visiting professor in the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

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According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons website, plastic surgery in India may have very old accounts, dating back to as early as 800 BC when ancient Indian physicians performed skin grafting. The expertise of the present-day Indian plastic surgeons may very well make these early physicians proud, as this South Asian country is becoming one of the world’s top medical tourism destinations.

Plastic Surgery Hospitals and Surgeons in India

Hundreds of patients from all around the world go to India every year to avail the services from India’s best plastic surgery hospitals and surgeons. With today’s high-tech mediums like the internet, word of mouth spreads like wildfire. Encouraged by glowing feedback collected from previous patients, more and more people are becoming open to the idea of having plastic surgery away from their home country.

Considering that first world countries in North America and Europe charge exorbitantly for the same procedures, no wonder that countries like India are increasingly becoming popular for patients.

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Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), is known to play a role in the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS), and many MS patients across the world are now seeking treatment for it. If you are considering CCSVI treatment, India may be one of the better options.

Besides offering high quality healthcare services at low prices, India is famous for the many tourist activities it offers to people traveling here. Medical tourists flock to this Asian country because it offers the following advantages:

• Thousands of MS patients in USA and Canada looking for CCSVI treatment are often disheartened by the long waiting lists.  The waiting time may sometimes stretch for 3-6 months.  Many hospitals in India have geared up to overcome this hurdle, and have started offering this treatment procedure for MS patients. Patients in India are hardly made to wait; most treatments are immediately available.

• CCSVI Surgery, also known as Liberation Surgery, is yet to be approved by the US FDA, and is not practiced by doctors in all places.  However, Indian doctors frequently perform this surgery.

• India is emerging as the hub of quality healthcare treatment.  Many hospitals here are JCI accredited, and healthcare services are

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Donor egg IVF is a fertility treatment or Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in which the egg from a donor is subjected to IVF. That is, the egg from the donor is mixed with the sperm from the biological father in the laboratory. If embryos are produced, they are grown in a lab dish and then transferred to the recipient’s uterus. If this results in a pregnancy, the baby thus born will have genetic linkage to the donor of the egg.

India donor egg IVF program is anonymous and highly successful. The chief reason for its success are highly experienced and well-qualified infertility experts.

We present below a comparison of successful pregnancies achieved with and without donor eggs. This data is from the top fertility clinic in India, which is also Medical Tourism Corporation’s partner clinic:

The first chart shows the number of ART cycles and the % of clinical pregnancy rates without the use of donor eggs. That is, the patient used her own eggs. As you can see, the success rate is well below 40%.

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Sadhus  {ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi)} are widely respected in India, especially the rural country side. There goal in life is attainment of liberation from the cycle of death & births (as Hindu’s believe). Yoga, now a worldwide growing phenomenon has its origins in Hinduism. Other later Indian religions like Buddhism & Jainism also have some element of Yoga as part of them.

India is home to number of popular health centers where yoga is part of the medical treatment and care.

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A number of people visit India for cost savings on hip resurfacing surgery. Hip resurfacing or surface replacement arthroplasty is a safer alternative to total hip replacement (THR) surgery. In hip resurfacing surgery, only the diseased part of the femur is removed and normal bone is preserved.This is unlike THR in which the complete femoral head and neck are removed, making it difficult for the patient to regain a natural gait after surgery. This article addresses the important things to keep in mind when shopping for a hip resurfacing hospital in India.India is fast emerging as a popular medical tourism destination for patients who require hip resurfacing surgery. The main reason for this is the price difference.

A hip resurfacing surgery can cost anywhere around $50,000 in USA and £25,000 in UK. In comparison, you can get a hip resurfacing surgery for as low as $15,500 in Mexico, $8,750 in Costa Rica and $8,500 in India.

In addition to price, India offers some other advantages as a destination for hip resurfacing surgery patients. India has a large pool of US and UK returned surgeons. Some of India’s hospitals

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