Cardiovascular Procedures

Meditar offers a wide array of procedures. Please contact us if your specific treatment or procedure is not on the list.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Heart and pericardium surgery

  • Permanent pacemaker implantation with intracavitary electrode
  • Permanent pacemaker implantation with epicardial electrode
  • Permanent pacemaker generator replacement; pacemaker reimplantation; cosmetic surgery for pacemaker pocket

 

Cardiopulmonary bypass cardiovascular surgery

  • Surgery of complex congenital heart defects (Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of major vessels, single ventricle, Tricuspid Atresia, Ebstein’s Disease, etc.)
  • Surgery of complex congenital heart defects with deep hypothermia; Rastelli procedure
  • Tissue graft or prosthetic heart valve replacement procedure
  • Double heart valve replacement procedure
  • Replacement of one valve and valvuloplasty of the other valve
  • Atrial and/or ventricular septal defect closure. Single or multiple valvuloplasties; partial anomalous pulmonary venous return; non-valvular right and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; aortopulmonary window; fistula between aorta or coronary arteries and heart cavities; embolectomy of pulmonary artery; removal of foreign objects in heart cavities
  • Excision of heart tumors
  • Surgery of aortic arch aneurysms; dissecting aortic aneurysm
  • Surgery of ascending or descending aorta
  • Single, double or triple bypass (including vein graft harvesting)
  • Mammary-coronary bypass
  • Resection of ventricular aneurysm as a stand-alone intervention
  • Resection of ventricular aneurysm together with myocardial bypass surgery

Radiofrequency Ablation

Angiocardiography procedures

  • Electrophysiological study and radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmias
  • Electrophysiological study of Hiss bundle
  • Comprehensive electrophysiological evaluation with treatment response and pacing tests
  • Radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmias

Peripheral Vascular Surgery

Vascular surgery on the chest cavity

  • Surgery on large arteriovenous trunks of the chest cavity (AP3)

Vascular surgery on the abdominopelvic cavity

  • Aortobifemoral bypass (with or without sympathectomy) (AP3)

Vascular surgery neck arteries and veins

  • Glomectomy – Carotid body tumor (AP2)

Vascular surgery on upper and lower limbs

  • Embolectomy of peripheral arteries (AP2)
  • Thrombus endarterectomy of peripheral arteries, with or without arterioplasty (including potential harvesting of vein patch) (AP2)
  • Peripheral artery bypass with vein graft (including graft harvesting) (AP2)
  • Peripheral artery bypass with synthetic graft (AP2)
  • Treatment of aneurysm or arteriovenous fistulas (AP2)

Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

  • Transluminal coronary angioplasty

Note: In the event of restenosis of a treated artery or vein within 180 (ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY) days after the date of the initial treatment, at least 50% (FIFTY PERCENT) of the amount agreed upon for the first session must be paid.

Transluminal Peripheral or Renal Angioplasty

  • Transluminal peripheral angioplasty
  • Transluminal renal angioplasty
  • Valvuloplasty

Note: In the event of restenosis of a treated artery or vein within 180 (ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY) days after the date of the initial treatment, at least 50% (FIFTY PERCENT) of the amount agreed upon for the first session must be paid.

Simple and complex hemodynamic diagnostic studies

Angiocardiography procedures

  • Diagnostic heart catheterization procedures (including blood pressure readings and blood samples collected for oximetry and heart monitoring)
  • Cardiography – angiocardiography includes cardiac catheterization, blood pressure readings and blood samples collected for oximetry, including heart monitoring
  • Selective coronary catheterization of left and/or right coronary artery (including cardiac catheterization, blood pressure readings and blood sample collections for oximetry and gated SPECT, with heart monitoring)
  • Lumbar puncture aortography
  • Femoral catheterization aortogram
  • Abdominal aortogram and selective catheterization of the aortic arch and neck arteries
  • Chest aortogram and/or selective catheterization of the aortic arch and neck arteries
  • Abdominal aortogram and selective humeral or femoral catheterization of celiac artery, upper and lower mesenteric artery, renal artery and/or branches (arterial, parenchymal and venous phases)
  • Abdominal, chest and/or selective cavography of tributaries (including blood sample collection to determine whether catheterization is necessary)
  • Transosseous azygography
  • (Bilateral) phlebogram of petrous sinus
  • Bilateral selective arteriography of lumbar intercostal arteries
  • Bilateral adrenal phlebogram with collection of samples for evaluation of hormone levels
  • Needle peripheral arteriography
  • Selective embolization and/or drug injection after angiographies or phlebographies
  • Upper and lower limb phlebography
  • Simple hemodynamic studies
  • Complex hemodynamic studies