About Cardiac Thoracic Services

The Lanka Hospitals Heart Centre is a world class clinic offering the best cardio-thoracic care available in Sri Lanka. The Centre offers cutting edge cardiac and thoracic care by the finest Sri Lankan and internationally trained professionals. The thoracic keyhole surgery offered here is not available at any other hospital in Sri Lanka.

This young and dynamic department, supported by state-of-the-art equipment, is dedicated to bringing the best comprehensive cardiac and cardio-thoracic surgical procedures to the island at very reasonable rates and in an unmatched ambience and environment.

Services

The pool of expertise and experience available here is unique to Lanka Hospitals, which offers adult and paediatric cardiac and thoracic surgery, including the latest, minimally invasive valve procedures:

• Beating Heart surgery
• Video Assisted Thoracoscopy Surgery (VATS) or Minimal Access Thoracic surgery
• Complex adult and paediatric thoracic surgery such as Chest Wall Resection and Sleeve Resection for cancer
• Redo CABG
• Hypertrophy Cardiomyopathy (HOCM)

The Heart Centre also offers:

• Cardiac Total Revascularisation (coronary, artery and valve surgery)
• Aortic dissection
• Valve/Arterial Switch procedures
• Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
• TOF
• Lung cancer surgery
• Collapsed lung surgery
• Removal of foreign bodies in the lung

Interventional cardio logical procedures performed are:

• Angioplasty
• Stent placements
• Device closure
• Valvuloplasty
• Placement of pacemakers and implantable cardio defibrillators for abnormal heart rhythms

A complete range of advanced diagnostic services is available, with the latest imaging methods, through:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• Echocardiography (Colour flow Doppler, Transoesophageal or TEE, Dobutamine Stress)
• Exercise Stress Test (Tread Mill Test or TMT)
• Holter Monitor (24 hour ECG Monitoring)

Why choose us?

Since 2002, the Heart Centre has performed several surgical cases with excellent results comparable to international figures. The team is guided by passion and vision, with total commitment to patient care, around the clock. The cardiac care team comprises the following professionals:

• Expert Cardio-thoracic surgeons
• Paediatric surgeons
• In-house Cardiac Anaesthetist
• Highly trained Clinical Perfusionist
• Assistant Surgeons
• Professional nursing staff of 1:1 nurse: patient ratio
• Secretarial and Heart Centre Manager Assistance
• Patient Counselling Services

Lanka Hospitals can offer the very best amenities to patients treated at the Heart Centre, with all facilities on the same floor for speedy access:

• Catheterisation Laboratory or Cath Lab, with diagnostic imaging equipment
• Two cardiac theatres
• Blood bank
• Coronary Care Unit (CCU) - dedicated, state-of-the-art 10 bed ICU
• 10 bed Step down ICU
• Individually-focused and expert nursing care
• Patient counselling by our Heart Specialists (pre-, inter- and post-operative) with access at any time
• Physiotherapy (pre- and post-operative)
• Rehabilitation

Location & Contact Details

Located: 1st Floor
Service Hours: Mondays to Saturdays 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Sundays 8.00 am to 2.00 pm
Contact Numbers: +94(0)115430000
Emergency Hotline 1566 (all networks except Mobitel)