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| Surgery Name | Cost | Room | Hospitalization |
|---|---|---|---|
| CABG Surgery Package | 5000-5500 USD | twin sharing | 5 Days in ward |
✓ Inclusion
- ✔Cardiac surgeon, assistant surgeon and cardiac anaesthetist fees
- ✔Operation theatre charges including heart-lung machine (on-pump) or stabiliser (off-pump)
- ✔Standard CABG with up to 3–4 grafts
- ✔1–2 days cardiac ICU care
- ✔5 days stay in ward, twin-sharing room
- ✔Routine medicines, IV fluids and surgical consumables during the stay
- ✔Standard blood tests, ECG, chest X-ray and post-operative Echo
- ✔Up to package limit of blood/blood products
- ✔Daily physiotherapy and breathing exercises
- ✔Meals for the patient as per hospital diet
- ✔Free: airport pick-up & drop, visa invitation letter, interpreter & coordinator (Satyug Healthcare)
✗ Exclusion
- ✖Coronary angiography or other pre-admission tests if needed
- ✖Extra ICU or hospital days beyond the package
- ✖Valve repair/replacement or any extra procedure
- ✖Intra-aortic balloon pump, special devices or high-cost medicines
- ✖Treatment of complications or unrelated illnesses
- ✖Upgrade to private or deluxe room
- ✖Attendant meals and stay outside the room
- ✖Hotel/guest-house stay before and after hospital
- ✖Flights, visa fees and travel insurance
- ✖Medicines after discharge
Know More About Procedure & Surgery
🇮🇳 CARDIAC PACKAGE — INDIA
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) in India
Heart bypass surgery for blocked heart arteries, multi-vessel disease and left main disease, done by experienced cardiac surgeons at accredited Indian heart centres – at a fraction of US, UK or Gulf prices.
✅ Free Medical Opinion in 48–72 h🫀 Off-Pump (Beating-Heart) CABG Option💰 Starting USD 5,000✈️ Visa & Airport Support🗣️ Interpreter Available
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3–6 hrs
Surgery time
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5 days
Ward stay (after 1–2 days ICU)
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97–98%
Survival (planned CABG)
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2–3 weeks
Total stay in India
📖 What is CABG (Heart Bypass) Surgery?
The heart muscle gets its blood from small arteries on its surface called coronary arteries. With age, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, fatty plaque builds up inside these arteries and narrows them. This is called coronary artery disease. Less blood reaches the heart, which causes chest pain (angina), breathlessness and, when an artery closes suddenly, a heart attack.
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, said 'cabbage') creates a new road for blood around the blocked part. The surgeon takes a healthy blood vessel from the chest wall (internal mammary artery), the arm (radial artery) or the leg (saphenous vein) and joins it above and below the blockage. It can be done with the heart-lung machine (on-pump) or on a beating heart (off-pump, OPCAB). Most patients get 3 or 4 grafts in one operation.
🖼️ Understand It in Pictures
💡 In simple words
The heart gets blood through small coronary arteries. Fatty plaque can narrow or block them, causing chest pain or heart attack. Bypass surgery uses a healthy blood vessel from your chest, arm or leg to make a new route around the block.
Clear vs blocked heart artery, and after bypass
👀 Symptoms in Pictures
🩻 Scans & Tests — What Doctors See
🎬 The Treatment Journey in Pictures
📅 Recovery at a Glance
Drawings: Satyug Healthcare (simplified, not to scale). Photos: Wikimedia Commons; author and licence under each photo.
🩺 Conditions Treated
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Triple vessel disease
Blockages in all three main heart arteries – CABG gives better long-term results than stents, especially in diabetics.
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Left main artery disease
A tight blockage of the main trunk artery that feeds most of the left side of the heart.
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Diabetes with multi-vessel disease
Large trials show diabetics with several blocked arteries live longer after CABG than after stenting.
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Weak heart after heart attack
Reduced pumping (low ejection fraction) with living heart muscle that can recover once blood flow returns.
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Failed or blocked stents
Repeated narrowing inside stents, or arteries that are too long, calcified or twisted for stents.
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Bypass with valve repair
CABG combined with valve repair or replacement when a valve is also damaged.
⚠️ Symptoms That May Need Bypass Surgery
- ➤Chest pain or pressure on walking or climbing stairs
- ➤Pain spreading to the left arm, jaw, neck or back
- ➤Breathlessness on mild effort
- ➤Heavy tiredness and low exercise capacity
- ➤Sweating, nausea or dizziness with chest discomfort
- ➤Swelling of the feet (heart weakness)
- ➤A previous heart attack
- ➤Angiography showing several tight blockages
💡 Not every heart blockage needs bypass surgery. Single or simple blockages are often treated with medicines or an angioplasty with stent. Your heart team (cardiologist and cardiac surgeon) reviews your angiography and SYNTAX score to decide between medicines, stents or CABG.
🔬 Tests Before Treatment
| Test | Why it is done |
|---|---|
| Coronary angiography | Shows exactly where the arteries are blocked and how badly – the key test for planning grafts. |
| Echocardiography (2D Echo) | Measures heart pumping (ejection fraction) and checks the heart valves. |
| ECG and stress test / viability scan | Shows heart strain and whether weak heart muscle is still alive and can recover. |
| Blood tests (CBC, kidney, liver, sugar, HbA1c, clotting) | Checks fitness for surgery, diabetes control and bleeding risk. |
| Chest X-ray and lung function test | Checks the lungs, important for breathing after surgery. |
| Carotid & leg vein Doppler | Checks neck arteries for stroke risk and leg veins for use as grafts. |
🏥 The Procedure — Step by Step
1
Admission & checks
You are admitted 1 day before surgery. Tests are repeated, and the surgeon and anaesthetist explain the plan.
2
Blood thinner plan
Some blood thinners (like clopidogrel) are stopped a few days before; aspirin is usually continued.
3
General anaesthesia
You are fully asleep. A breathing tube, IV lines and a urine catheter are placed.
4
Opening the chest
The breastbone (sternum) is opened through a cut of about 20–25 cm down the middle of the chest.
5
Harvesting the grafts
The internal mammary artery is freed from the chest wall; vein from the leg or artery from the arm is taken at the same time.
6
Heart-lung machine or off-pump
The heart is either stopped and supported by a heart-lung machine, or kept beating and steadied with a stabiliser (off-pump).
7
Joining the grafts
Each graft is stitched below the blockage and to the aorta above, using very fine stitches under magnification.
8
Closing the chest
Graft flow is checked, drain tubes are placed and the breastbone is closed with steel wires.
9
ICU care
You spend about 1–2 days in the cardiac ICU. The breathing tube is usually removed within 4–12 hours.
10
Ward recovery & discharge
About 5 days in the ward with walking, breathing exercises and physiotherapy, then discharge with medicines and a clear plan.
⚖️ Types & Techniques
| Technique | What is done | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| On-pump CABG | Heart is stopped; heart-lung machine pumps blood during grafting | Most patients, complex or many grafts |
| Off-pump CABG (OPCAB) | Grafts stitched on the beating heart without the heart-lung machine | Patients with kidney disease, calcified aorta or stroke risk |
| Total arterial revascularisation | Uses mainly arteries (both mammary arteries, radial artery) instead of veins | Younger patients – arterial grafts stay open longer |
| MICS CABG (minimally invasive) | 1–2 grafts through a small cut between the ribs, breastbone not cut | Selected patients with 1–2 blocked arteries |
| CABG with valve surgery | Bypass plus valve repair or replacement in one operation | Patients with both blocked arteries and a damaged valve |
📊 In the FREEDOM trial (NEJM 2012), diabetic patients with multi-vessel disease had fewer deaths, heart attacks and strokes over 5 years after CABG than after stents (18.7% vs 26.6%). The internal mammary artery graft stays open in about 90% or more of patients at 10 years.
📅 Your Day-by-Day Plan in India
| Day | What happens |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | Arrive in India, airport pick-up by Satyug, check in to hotel/guest house. |
| Day 2 | Meet the cardiac surgeon and cardiologist, review angiography, fresh tests. |
| Day 3 | Admission and final pre-surgery checks. |
| Day 4 | CABG surgery, then cardiac ICU. |
| Day 5–6 | ICU: breathing tube and drains removed, sitting and first steps. |
| Day 7–11 | Ward stay (5 days): walking, physiotherapy, wound care, discharge. |
| Day 12–18 | Rest at hotel, short walks, follow-up visit with Echo and wound check. |
| Day 19–21 | Fit-to-fly check, medicine plan, fly home ✈️ |
🌱 Recovery After Treatment
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Week 1
ICU then ward. Walking starts on day 1–2. Chest is sore; pain medicines help.
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Week 2–3
Walk 2–3 times daily, slowly increasing. Stitches removed. Short flight usually allowed after review.
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Week 4–6
Light home activities. Do not lift more than 2–4 kg or drive while the breastbone heals.
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Week 6–8
Breastbone mostly healed. Most office workers return to work. Cardiac rehab exercise starts.
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Month 3
Near-normal activity, including most sports and heavier work after doctor's advice.
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Lifelong
Aspirin, statin and BP/sugar medicines, no smoking, healthy diet – these keep grafts open.
🏆 Success Rate
| Outcome | Result |
|---|---|
| Survival after planned (elective) CABG | About 97–98% |
| Relief of angina | About 90% of patients are free of chest pain |
| Mammary artery graft open at 10 years | About 90% or more |
| Vein grafts open at 10 years | About 50–60% |
| Survival at 10 years | About 75–80% (depends on age, heart strength, diabetes) |
Results are best when the heart pump is still fairly strong, the patient stops smoking, and diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol are well controlled after surgery. Age, kidney disease and emergency surgery increase risk.
🩹 Risks & Possible Complications
CABG is a major operation, but in experienced centres serious problems are uncommon.
- •Irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation): about 20–30%, usually temporary and treated with medicines
- •Wound or leg-vein site infection: about 2–5%
- •Bleeding needing re-opening of the chest: about 2–3%
- •Short-term memory or concentration problems: common in the first weeks, usually improve
- •Kidney strain: about 1–5%, higher in diabetics and those with kidney disease
- •Stroke: about 1–2%
- •Heart attack around surgery or graft blockage: about 1–3%
💰 Cost of CABG Surgery in India
The cost of CABG surgery in India starts from about USD 5,000. This package covers the surgery, surgeon and anaesthesia fees, cardiac ICU care, a 5-day ward stay in a twin-sharing room, routine medicines and standard tests. The cost can rise with extra ICU days, arterial grafts or special items, or if valve surgery is also needed.
| Option / Hospital tier | Approx. cost (USD) | Hospital stay | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CABG package – twin sharing (this package) | 5,000 | ICU + 5 days ward | Standard on-pump or off-pump CABG |
| CABG – private room | 6,000 – 7,500 | ICU + 5–6 days | More privacy for patient and attendant |
| Total arterial / MICS CABG | 7,000 – 9,500 | ICU + 5–6 days | Extra cost for special grafts or instruments |
| CABG with valve replacement | 9,000 – 12,000 | 7–10 days | Valve type (tissue or mechanical) changes cost |
| High-risk CABG (low EF, kidney disease) | 7,500 – 11,000 | 8–12 days | Longer ICU, balloon pump or dialysis if needed |
⚠️ Final cost depends on the number of grafts, heart strength, other illnesses (diabetes, kidney disease), ICU days and room type. Quotes are confirmed after the cardiac surgeon examines the patient in India.
✈️ Your Medical Travel Process with Satyug Healthcare
| Step | Details |
|---|---|
| 1. Send reports | Coronary angiography report and CD/video, 2D Echo report, ECG, recent blood tests (kidney function, HbA1c), and a list of current medicines |
| 2. Free opinion & quotes | Within 48-72 hours you receive opinions and cost estimates from 3-5 leading hospitals to compare. |
| 3. Choose hospital & doctor | We help you compare doctors, success rates, room options and total budget. |
| 4. Medical visa | The hospital issues a Visa Invitation Letter (VIL) to the Indian Embassy. The patient and up to 2 attendants apply for an e-Medical / Medical Attendant visa. |
| 5. Travel planning | Flight guidance, wheelchair assistance, airport pick-up, hotel or guest house near the hospital. |
| 6. Treatment in India | Your coordinator and interpreter stay with you for admission, treatment, discharge and billing. |
| 7. Return & follow-up | Fit-to-fly letter, medicines, and online follow-up with your doctor after you return home. |
🎒 Travel Checklist
- 📌Valid passport (6+ months) for the patient and attendants, plus 10 passport-size photos each
- 📌Medical visa / e-visa and the hospital’s Visa Invitation Letter
- 📌All angiography films (CD or link), Echo, ECG, stress test and blood reports, plus current prescriptions
- 📌Yellow fever vaccination certificate (mandatory for travellers from African countries)
- 📌Polio vaccination certificate where applicable
- 📌Declare cash above USD 5,000 at the airport; hospitals accept wire transfer and cards
- 📌Foreigners staying longer than permitted must register with the FRRO — our team assists
⭐ Why Choose Satyug Healthcare?
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Top Accredited Hospitals
Leading Indian heart centres such as Medanta – The Medicity (Gurugram), Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (New Delhi), Max Super Speciality Hospital Saket, Narayana Health (Bengaluru), Apollo Hospitals and BLK-Max perform thousands of bypass operations every year
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Senior Specialists
Our partner cardiac surgeons have each performed thousands of CABG operations, including off-pump and total arterial bypass.
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Transparent Pricing
Multiple written quotes to compare — no hidden charges, no extra fee for our service.
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End-to-End Support
Visa, airport pick-up, accommodation, interpreter and 24/7 coordinator.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
➤ What is the cost of CABG surgery in India?
CABG in India starts from about USD 5,000 for a standard bypass in a twin-sharing room. A private room, total arterial grafts or high-risk cases cost about USD 6,000–11,000. We send a written estimate after reviewing your angiography.
➤ How long do I need to stay in India?
Plan for about 2–3 weeks. This includes 1–2 days of tests, about 1–2 days in ICU and 5 days in the ward, and 7–10 days of rest near the hospital before you fly.
➤ Is CABG better than stents?
For blockages in all three arteries, left main disease or diabetes with several blocked arteries, studies show CABG gives longer life and fewer repeat procedures than stents. For one or two simple blockages, stents are usually enough.
➤ What is the success rate of bypass surgery in India?
Survival after planned CABG is about 97–98% in experienced Indian centres, similar to international results. About 90% of patients are free of chest pain afterwards.
➤ What is off-pump (beating-heart) CABG?
The surgeon stitches the grafts while the heart keeps beating, without the heart-lung machine. It may suit patients with kidney disease, a calcified aorta or stroke risk. Your surgeon chooses the safest method for you.
➤ Is the surgery painful?
You are fully asleep during surgery. Afterwards the chest is sore for 2–4 weeks, mainly when coughing or moving. Pain medicines keep this well controlled.
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Medical disclaimer: This page is for general information and does not replace a consultation with a qualified specialist. Treatment plans and costs are confirmed only after the patient is examined. Sources: NCBI StatPearls: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft; Mayo Clinic: Coronary bypass surgery; NHS: Coronary artery bypass graft; ACC/AHA/SCAI 2021 Coronary Revascularization Guideline; ESC/EACTS 2018 Myocardial Revascularization Guideline; FREEDOM trial (NEJM 2012); SYNTAX trial. Infographics: Satyug Healthcare.
Frequently Asked Questions
During coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, your surgeon will use a healthy blood vessel from another part of your body to create an alternate route, or bypass, around narrowed or blocked sections of your coronary arteries. This bypass surgery allows more blood to reach your heart muscle.
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