Microvascular Decompression MVD Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of microvascular decompression in Gurgaon typically ranges from $7,500 to $14,000 USD (about ₹7.11 lakh to ₹13.28 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for microvascular decompression in Gurgaon is around $9,000 (about ₹8.54 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If the operation is planned and you need only a short stay in neuro intensive care, your bill is likely to be closer to $7,500 (about ₹7.11 lakh). It is likely to be nearer $14,000 (about ₹13.28 lakh) if the surgery is more complex, special navigation or monitoring equipment or an implanted device is used, or you need longer in intensive care.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for microvascular decompression, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Neuro-intensive care days
• Implants or devices used
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Microvascular decompression (MVD) is an operation inside the skull that lifts a blood vessel off a nerve it is compressing, most often the trigeminal nerve in trigeminal neuralgia, which causes severe facial pain.

According to the NHS, trigeminal neuralgia brings sudden bouts of intense facial pain; medicines come first, and MVD, needle-based procedures or radiosurgery are options when medicines do not work or cause side effects.

A guide by Kaufmann and Patel at the University of Manitoba describes a small opening behind the ear under general anaesthetic, through which the surgeon uses a microscope to move the vessel and place a small Teflon pad between vessel and nerve.

The NHS states that MVD gives the longest-lasting relief of the available procedures, although pain returns in about 3 in 10 people within 10 to 20 years.

It notes serious complications, including facial numbness, hearing loss, stroke or death, in about 1 in 1,000, and the guide describes a stay of a couple of days with full activity within weeks.

Flying home: UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance treats 7 days after brain or nerve surgery as the shortest wait, and neurosurgeons often ask for longer.

A Gurgaon quote for microvascular decompression is normally made up of these items:

• Scans before the operation: MRI, CT or an angiogram.
• Theatre, navigation and monitoring: including nerve monitoring when it is used.
• Days in neuro intensive care: after the operation is over.
• Condition: trigeminal neuralgia or other.
• Anaesthesia: general.
• Stay: a few days.
• Follow-up: tapering of medicines.

MVD is major brain surgery, and costs depend on the stay and any intensive care, so it is worth asking what the Gurgaon estimate includes.

Gurgaon's larger hospitals provide neurosurgery with neuro-intensive care and, in some units, intraoperative imaging or nerve monitoring, so ask which your operation will involve.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still 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.

Haryana adopted the national Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 in 2018, starting with larger private hospitals, so you can ask a Gurgaon hospital for its registration under the Act.