Heart Condition
Treatments
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Candover Clinic or The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke.
We are now offering video consultations.
Specialised cardiac treatments
Your heart health is clearly very important but unfortunately the waiting times on an NHS waiting list are often 3 to 6 months or more, after completing the relevant initial investigations. By choosing to pay for your treatment or using your medical insurance, you are able to have these with no more than 1-2 weeks of waiting. Dr Alsanjari and his recommended colleagues are extremely experienced at all aspects of general cardiology, offering the best treatment available in the UK at your local private hospital.
The treatment pricing is variable based on the hospital fees so please contact the admin team for a relevant guide price to the procedure you have been recommended to have.
Coronary angioplasty with Stenting
This is similar to a coronary angiogram, but involves using specialised wires and balloons to open a severely narrowed arteries and then keeping these arteries open by implanting the latest generation of drug eluting stents or drug coated balloons. Often, Dr Alsanjari will use specialised imaging techniques as part of the procedure to maximise the chance that you have long lasting benefits from this procedure.
Chronic Total Occlusions
Chronic total occlusions are the most difficult blockages to treat and require the highest degree of technical ability to successfully treat. Many of these arteries will have been blocked for many years, and so these procedures can take a few hours to successfully treat. Dr Alsanjari has a high success rate in treating such patterns of disease and is the only operator at Hampshire Hospitals who tackles such cases routinely.
DC Cardioversion
This is electric shock treatment to the heart if you have atrial flutter/fibrillation with the aim of restoring it back to a normal rhythm. You will often need to have had your blood thinned for at least 4 weeks, and are also likely to require some rhythm control medications. The treatment is performed with deep sedation, similar to a general anaesthetic and so will not feel/remember the treatment, but unlike a general anaesthetic, you are less likely to feel groggy afterwards.
Pacemaker
a pacemaker implant is a device that is implanted into patients who have a slow pulse (also called bradycardia). The pacemaker operation can take up to an hour. The pacemaker consists of a battery (generator) and leads. The leads are special wires that are inserted into the heart from a vein under the collar bone using an x-ray to guide the wire into the heart. The leads are then tested to make sure they are in the correct position. The leads are then connected to the generator which is buried under the skin. If you have a pacemaker implant you will need to have regular checks to make sure it is working properly (every 6 to 12 months).
Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (Biventricular Pacemaker)
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is a specialised pacemaker implanted into patients with heart failure where the left and right ventricles of the heart stop working together. Only patients with a certain type of heart failure benefit from CRT. The procedure is very similar to that of a pacemaker with wires placed into the heart via a vein under the collar bone. However CRT pacemakers have a third wire that is placed around the back of the heart to allow the left and right ventricles to work together again. CRT pacemakers can help improve heart failure symptoms as well as heart function.
Implantable Defibrillator (ICD)
An ICD is a device that is implanted into patients who are at risk of having a cardiac arrest due to a serious disturbance of the heart rhythm. Usually this occurs in patients with heart failure, but it can also happen in a number of hereditary conditions that predispose to cardiac arrest. The operation is performed under a local anaesthetic with wires inserted into the heart using x-ray to guide placement. These wires are then connected to a generator and buried under the skin on the left side of the chest. The procedure is very similar to that of a pacemaker but the generator is usually larger than a pacemaker. Patients with ICD implants usually need to have them checked every 6 months to ensure they are working properly
Coronary Bypass Surgery
If a patient has lots of narrowing affecting a lot of the heart arteries it may be necessary to have coronary bypass surgery. This is a routine but major operation that involves opening the chest through the breast bone, stopping the heart and using the veins in your leg and the artery in your wrist or breast bone to graft onto the blocked arteries to restore the blood supply to the heart. Although it is a big operation done with a general anaesthetic it is a routine procedure involving approximately a one week stay in hospital.