Every year, cardiothoracic surgeons at the Top Ichilov Clinic successfully perform hundreds of heart surgeries using innovative minimally invasive endovascular surgical techniques, employing high-quality and safe implants to replace damaged valves.
The vast experience of the doctors and their high professionalism allow for the virtuoso correction of valve apparatus defects on a beating heart, ensuring the absence of postoperative risks and complications.
Progressive Methods for Your Recovery
Multivalvular defects are a combined disruption of the functions and structure of heart valves: the pulmonary trunk valve, mitral, aortic, and tricuspid valves. Among heart valve defects, insufficiency and stenosis are distinguished. Stenosis may affect one valve, while insufficiency may affect another. Treatment of combined heart defects in Israel is performed in two ways – through pharmaceutical means and surgical intervention.
- Medication therapy. Several groups of drugs are used to treat diseases – angiotensin II receptor antagonists, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, glycosides, anticoagulants, etc. Pharmaceutical agents are prescribed to lower blood pressure, reduce myocardial contractility, thin the blood, normalize the functional state of the heart muscle, improve metabolic processes in the myocardium, etc. Our clinic uses safe medications, the combination of which cardiologists select individually and carefully calculate the necessary dosage. This ensures a high success rate of treatment and reduces the risk of adverse side effects to zero.
- Surgical intervention is performed to restore the normal functioning of the valves, as well as to restore their shape and structure. If it is possible to eliminate the pathology through a minimally invasive endoscopic operation, preference will be given to such an intervention. The professionalism of cardiothoracic surgeons allows for complex surgeries on a beating (functioning) heart. This reduces the duration of the intervention and results in fewer complications.
- Reconstructive surgery. Through a small incision in the sternum or using minimally invasive intervention, the surgeon gains access to the heart and can perform necessary actions to restore the anatomical shape of the valve (separating adhesions, correcting shape, suturing ruptures, etc.). This intervention is effective for mitral valve insufficiency, as well as aortic stenosis.
- Endovascular prosthetics is performed when reconstruction is not possible. Today, safe products made from composite or biological materials are used. They integrate well, do not cause allergic reactions, and have a long service life. Prosthetics are performed through a transcatheter approach, where the implant is delivered to the required location through one of the large arteries. It is used in cases of valve insufficiency, stenosis of the pulmonary trunk valve, tricuspid, or aortic valve.
- Transcatheter valvuloplasty is performed in cases of stenosis to eliminate the narrowing of the lumen of any of the valves. This procedure is used as an emergency method for patients for whom valve prosthetics is contraindicated for various reasons. A balloon is brought to the narrowed area through a catheter and inflated with liquid – air can provoke the development of embolism. Under the influence of the inflated balloon, the stenosed area of the valve expands, and its leaflets, which were closed due to pathology, separate – the adhesions break apart. Once the result of widening the valve opening is achieved, the balloon is deflated and removed along with the catheter.
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Diagnostics of Combined Heart Defects in Israel
To conduct a comprehensive examination and make a 100% accurate diagnosis, the doctors at Top Ichilov need only 3-4 working days.
First Day. Transfer to the Clinic and Consultation with a Cardiologist
Immediately from the airport, the patient, along with a personal coordinator, goes for an appointment with a cardiologist. The doctor reviews the medical history, and if necessary, provides referrals for tests and consultations with other specialists.
Second Day. Conducting Examination in 1 Day
- Laboratory blood test.
- CT, MRI.
- Chest X-ray.
- Electro- and echocardiography.
- Coronary, aortic, ventriculographic studies, etc.
Third Day. Individually Developed Treatment Plan
After receiving the results, a panel of specialists, taking into account the specifics of the disease course and the patient's overall condition, selects the optimal therapy scheme to achieve high success rates and prevent medical errors.
Treatment of Combined Heart Defects in Israel: Prices
Medical services at the Israeli Top Ichilov Clinic are cheaper than in similar-level medical institutions in other countries: by 25-30% compared to clinics in Germany and the UK, and by 40-45% compared to medical centers in Canada and the USA.
Treatment of combined heart defects in Israel, the cost of which is accessible today, is your chance for salvation and longevity. Fill out the application on the website, and consultants will call you back to provide price information and answer your questions.
Choose the Best! Choose Top Ichilov!
Treatment of combined heart defects in Israel receives only positive reviews. Patients note numerous advantages of the Top Ichilov Medical Center:
- our doctors are high-level professionals with global recognition, possessing vast experience and achievements in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery;
- our cardiothoracic surgeons virtuously perform surgeries of any complexity;
- decisions on therapy methods are made collegially;
- diagnostics of combined heart defects in Israel is conducted using modern equipment, allowing it to be completed in just 3 days with high accuracy;
- affordable prices and no advance payment, with staged payment for each procedure separately;
- support from a representative of the international department. Our specialist will help solve organizational and everyday issues, avoiding language discomfort in a foreign country.