Laparoscopic Surgery in India
Laparoscopic surgery is also known as key-hole surgery and minimal invasive surgery. This surgery is performed to look inside the abdomen. Laparoscopy is a technique to look inside your abdomen by using a laparoscope. This technique is used to light up and magnify the structures inside the abdomen. It is done to find the cause of symptoms such as abdominal pain, pelvic pain, or swelling of the abdomen. Some conditions that can be seen by laparoscopy are ¬ endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts, ectopic pregnancy and appendicitis.
Contraindication with laparoscopic surgery in India:
- Laparoscopic surgery is not at all advisable for pregnant women because it can cause miscarriage or birth defects.
- There are high chances of perinphric, subscapsular nd intraparenchymal hemorrhage.
- It is not advisable for patient whose kidney doesn’t perform.
Procedure of laparoscopic surgery in India:
After looking inside the abdomen, doctor will use fine instruments to pass into the abdomen through another small incision in the skin. Fine instruments will be used to cut, trim, biopsy, grab inside the abdomen. Laparoscopic surgery can be performed for various conditions that are mentioned below:
- To remove gallbladder, this action is termed as a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- To remove appendix
- For taking a biopsy of structures inside the abdomen
- To remove patches of endometriosis
- To remove parts of intestines
- For female sterilization
Laparoscopic surgery in India is an economical and pain less procedure. it doesn’t involve much risk moreover it doesn’t require long stay at the hospital. After the surgery is over, the patient is kept for 2 – 3 hours in recovery room and then shifted to a hospital room. Most patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy go home the same day. At times patients have to spend one night in the hospital after the surgery. The patient who undergo with laparoscopic surgery on the stomach or intestine will require a 2-4 day stay in the hospital. Mostly patients require a few pain killers over the first 2-3 days at home but there are some patients who don’t require pain medication after going home.
Laparoscopic surgery hospitals in India:
- Max health care, New Delhi
- Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur
- Apollo Gleneagles hospital, Kolkatta
- Sevenhills hospital, Mumbai
- Mission of mercy hospital and research centre, Kolkatta
- jalok hospital and research centre, Mumbai
- Apollo hospital, Hyderabad
- Artemis health institute, Gurgaon
- Heritage hospital, Hyderabad
- Sant parmanand hospital, New Delhi
Advantage of laparoscopic surgery:
After this surgery patients experience less pain. As compared to open abdominal surgery, laparoscopic surgery includes less tissue trauma and scarring. It is an outpatient procedure or a short hospital stay procedure and recovery takes a short while. In India this surgery can cost about $ 600 to $700. Many foreign patients took the benefit of cost saving when they undergo a laparoscopic surgery in India.
