Fortis Hospital - Mumbai, India
Fortis Hospitals embodies a 40 year tradition of healthcare built by Fortis Ltd., India's leading pharmaceutical and healthcare company that has presence in over 20 countries. For years, the patient centered care at Fortis Hospitals has been a familiar and a comforting touchstone for our community, creating new standards and thus setting us apart.
Fortis is proud of its tradition of compassionate patient care and medical advances that our hospitals continue to generate. As the Fortis network works towards enhancing clinical excellence and quality, Fortis also concentrates on increasing the clinical efficiency of its hospitals, this attention to detail improves patient care. Fortis believes that a judicious blend of technology, clinical expertise and personalized care is the mantra for attaining excellence in patient satisfaction.
Fortis offers the medical tourism patient a fully staffed International patient department which caters to the hundreds of successful medical tourism patients a year who leave Fortis's care and travel home. Fortis is ready and able to assist your medical travel needs.
Center for Joint Replacement: Partial List of Services
Total Knee Replacement:
Unicondylar Knee Replacement (which requires only a small incision and assures rapid recovery)
Hi-flex knees (where the patient can comfortably move and squat normally, which is not possible in conventional knee replacements)
Failed or revision joint replacement
Infected joint replacement
Extra corporeal irradiation and total joint replacement
Total Hip and Shoulder Replacement, Hip Resurfacing and Joint Revsions:
Cementless total hip replacement (less complicated in terms of fixation of prosthesis)
Hip Resurfacing / Surface Replacement Artroplasty
Cementless bipolar / partial hip replacement in elderly with fracture neck femur
Shoulder replacement
Revision Joint Replacement- for people whose earlier replacements have failed
Sports Medicine:
Knee Arthroscopy - ACL reconstructions and Menisectomy
Other Special Services:
State-of-the-art technology, extra corporeal irradiation and re-implantation followed by joint replacement, offers great benefits to patients with excellent compliance, without placing any foreign component in the body. Moreover, it is a cost-effective technology.
Orthopedic Oncology:
Large experience in custom made prosthesis
Extra corporeal irradiation and re-implantation followed by joint replacement
Fortis Heart Hospital - Bangalore, India
An Introduction:
A state of the art 400 Bed facility equipped with latest technology and truly World class Clinical Talent dedicated to the whole range of Cardiac, Orthopedic, Neurosciences, Minimal Access Surgery and Women & Child Services. Bangalore is known as Asia's preferred medical destination, and the Fortis Hospital is the choice for super-specialty healthcare.
As Bangalore earns the tag of a multi-dimensional healthcare city, Fortis Hospitals on Bannerghatta Road takes the big leap into a multi-disciplinary super-specialty healthcare provider. Today, this new facility is undoubtedly set to be a landmark in South Bangalore and a milestone in the medical map of Asia. Hundreds of successful medical tourism patients a year leave Fortis's care and travel home. Fortis is ready and able to assist your medical travel needs.
Adult Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery Services:
Interventional Cardiology Procedures:
Coronary Angiography, Angioplasty and Stenting
Angiography & Angioplasty of arteries of neck, leg, arm and kidney
EP Study Diagnostic and Ablation
Permanent pacemaker (Single & Double Chamber)
Heart failure device and AICD implantation
Valvuloplasty
ASD, VSD , PDA device closure
Endovascular aneurysm repair
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery procedures:
Off pump bypass surgeries (almost all the bypass surgeries are done off pump)
Valve surgeries
Valve repairs
Maize procedures for AF
ROSS restriction and valve sparing root replacement
Awake heart surgeries (on or off pump cardiac surgeries under high thoracic epidural without sensational anesthesia)
Surgery for Heart Failure:
Left ventricle size restoration surgery
Left ventricle artist services
Orthopedic Care - India
Center For Joint Replacement
The Bone and Joint Care at Wockhardt Hospitals has initiated a "Center for Joint Replacement”. Surgery with highly skilled clinical expertise, most advanced technology and dedicated Joint Replacements Theater.
Computer Navigation System for Joint Replacements provides more accurate implantation by digital mapping based on standard anatomical landmarks and kinematic analysis. It guides the surgeon in all the steps of surgery and even point out errors before they are made. The computer navigates the path of instruments in such a way that the implant is fitted in the optimal position.
It also helps in adjusting the ligament tension that is very vital to get a stable joint with good range of motion. It includes a computer console, touch screen monitor and couple of infrared cameras that track the position of the leg and the components. The accuracy of the steps is improved to 0.5 degree and to one millimeter. Apart from improving the precision of bone cuts, the computer also helps in restoring the soft tissue balancing that is critical in getting the desired good results.
The Advantages of Computer Guided Joint Replacement Surgery:
Restore accurate leg alignment
Increase the survival of the implanted joint
Reduce the risk of complications due to improper implantation
No radiation during surgery
Constant guidance & monitoring during surgery
Range of motion analysis to achieve maximum function
Minimally invasive surgery hence decreased blood loss
Decreased hospital stay.
Common Joint Replacement or Resurfacing Procedures:
Hip Resurfacing/Surface Replacements Arthroplasty
Total Hip Replacements
Knee Replacement
Bilateral Knee Replacements
Unicondylar Knee Replacements
Total Knee Replacements
Shoulder Replacements
Elbow Replacements
Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
