Multiple Subpial Transections MST Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of multiple subpial transection in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for multiple subpial transection in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 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 $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 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 multiple subpial transection, 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

Multiple subpial transection (MST) is epilepsy surgery that makes a row of shallow cuts in an area of brain that cannot be safely taken out, to stop seizures spreading while keeping that area working.

A Cochrane review describes cuts spaced about 5 mm apart that divide the sideways connections along which seizures spread, whereas leaving the vertical fibres and blood vessels intact.

Epilepsy Action points out that MST is used mostly for particular epilepsy syndromes, and a 2010 paper on epilepsy surgery in India calls it a palliative procedure aimed at reducing seizures.

The Cochrane review found no randomised trials and could not judge how effective or safe MST is, although non-randomised studies reported seizure freedom in about 55% when MST was combined with resection and about 24% with MST alone.

Possible risks include language issues, limb weakness and infections including meningitis.

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 multiple subpial transection 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.
• Assessment: video EEG, MRI and mapping.
• Combined surgery: with resection or alone.
• Intensive care: after surgery.
• Stay: and rehabilitation.

Brain and nerve surgery costs depend on complexity, intensive care and any devices used, so complex cases in Gurgaon can cost more than the range above.

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.

Where a Gurgaon hospital has an international patient desk, ask whether it can issue the letter for your e-Medical visa and help with airport pickup, interpreters and a place to stay nearby.