LVAD Cost in Gurgaon, India

It cannot replaced your heart, it receives blood from the left ventricle and then deliver it to aorta. LVAD along with left ventricle pumps the blood.

Your doctor may recommend you LVAD when your left ventricle is damaged enough which affects its ability to pump blood, it can be a short term device to keep your heart pumping till you undergo heart transplant.

LVAD is permanent in some critically ill patient whose condition is not eliglible for them to undergo heart transplantation. It is also known as destination therapy.

The purpose of LVAD and pacemaker are different, LVAD helps the heart in pumping the blood effectively, while a pacemaker helps in correcting the irregular or slow heartbeat. Pacemaker generates electrical stimulation which regulated heart beat.

This device is not new, it was invented in 1962 and it was first time implanted in 1966 in a 37 years old patient.

Patients who cannot do any  physical activity because of their cardiac disease, they are comfortable only when they are resting.

Yes, LVAD devices are now portable, you can return home with the LVAD and continue your normal activities while waiting for a heart to become available.

Cardiac surgeon are specialized in placing LVAD.

It generally takes four to six hours and you'll be asleep during the procedure, so you shouldn't feel any pain during the procedure.

No, you cannot swim with LVAD as it cannot be submerged. There is some hope that an fully implantable device will be made in future with which you can swim easily

Exercises has given multiple beneficial effects on heart failure patients which is expected to improve the quality of life.

Even though LVAD is said to be durable and reliable device its replacement is expected in some patients.

When LVAD fails it leads to bleeding, complications, thrombosis, ischaemic and haemorrhagic strokes, infection and organ failure.

Patient have to stay in hospital for 3-5 days after recovery, most patient remain in hospital for minimum 2 to 3 weeks.