Bentall procedure Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of the Bentall procedure in Gurgaon typically ranges from $1,900 to $7,000 USD (about ₹1.80 lakh to ₹6.64 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for the Bentall procedure in Gurgaon is around $3,500 (about ₹3.32 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If your surgery is planned, you recover without problems and you stay in a shared room, your bill is likely to be closer to $1,900 (about ₹1.80 lakh). It is likely to be nearer $7,000 (about ₹6.64 lakh) if your operation is more complex or a repeat operation, you need longer in intensive care, special valves or grafts are used, or you choose a private room.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for the Bentall procedure, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Intensive care days
• Valves, grafts or devices
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

The Bentall procedure replaces the aortic valve, the aortic root and the first part of the aorta with one graft that contains a valve, after which the coronary arteries are stitched back onto the graft.

It is used when a widened aortic root comes with a damaged aortic valve, after dissection of the root, for a bicuspid valve with an enlarged aorta and in connective tissue disorders such as Marfan syndrome.

The Marfan Foundation emphasises that results are far better when the operation is done before a dissection occurs.

When the aortic valve itself is healthy, a valve-sparing root replacement may keep it and avoid the trade-offs of an artificial valve, and the Marfan Foundation describes valve-sparing re-implantation as the usual choice of this type in connective tissue disorders.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust notes that a mechanical valve means taking warfarin for life.

Flying home: UK aviation guidance has no specific figure for this procedure, so fly after the surgeon's review and ask about clot prevention on long journeys.

A Gurgaon quote for the Bentall procedure is normally made up of these items:

• Work-up before surgery: angiogram, echo, blood tests and anaesthetic review.
• Theatre and perfusion: operating time and the heart-lung machine team.
• Cardiac ICU days: often the most variable part of the bill.
• Valve in the graft: mechanical or tissue.
• Timing: planned or urgent, for example after a dissection.
• ICU and total stay: often 10 days or more.
• Scans: CT angiogram and echocardiogram.

Ask the Gurgaon hospital for a written, itemised estimate that names the device or implant brand, the expected intensive care days and the room category.

Gurgaon has several large private hospitals with cardiothoracic theatres, perfusion teams and cardiac intensive care, so overseas patients can collect written estimates from more than one before they travel.

The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), part of the Quality Council of India and accredited by ISQua, sets India's national hospital standard, and its website lets you confirm whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon sits on the south-western edge of Delhi, a short road transfer from Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is the usual arrival point for international patients.