Percutaneous Balloon Compression (PBC) Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of percutaneous balloon compression 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 percutaneous balloon compression 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 percutaneous balloon compression, 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

Percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) treats trigeminal neuralgia, a severe facial pain, by passing a needle through the cheek and briefly inflating a small balloon to press on the trigeminal nerve.

The NHS says that percutaneous procedures including balloon compression can relieve the pain but do not always work, and relief normally lasts a few years, though sometimes only months.

The majority of people leave hospital the same day or the next.

The NHS points out that the main side effect is numbness on one side of the face, which may be permanent, whereas painful numbness (anaesthesia dolorosa) is rare and eye damage is uncommon.

Microvascular decompression gives the longest relief but is major open surgery, with pain returning in about 3 in 10 people within 10 to 20 years, and stereotactic radiosurgery avoids an incision but works more gradually.

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 percutaneous balloon compression 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.
• Anaesthesia: normally general.
• Guidance: X-ray in theatre.
• Stay: same or next day.
• Repeat treatment: if pain returns.

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.

Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram by the Haryana government in 2016, so hospital letters, maps and taxi apps may use either name.