Thoracic Surgery In Manipal Hospital Dwarka
A remarkable feature of Manipal Hospital Dwarka, the best pulmonology hospital in Delhi, is the dedicated & exclusive Chest Surgery (also known as Thoracic Surgery) Department dealing with diseased or injured organs of the chest. Chest surgery includes all the organs inside the chest except the heart. Precisely the disorders of the lungs and esophagus (food pipe) and trachea (windpipe) comes under it. Lung cancer, emphysema, LVRS for advanced COPD, complications of lung tuberculosis and chest trauma are some of the many clinical indications for chest surgery. The department is famous for successfully managing patients with chest injuries including injuries of the heart. Dept is also one of few in Northern India to undertake minimally invasive thoracic surgery (Keyhole surgery). Apart from diagnostic mediastinoscopy and thoracoscopy, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is routinely done for a wide variety of diseases inside the chest cavity. A sample list of operations done using VATS include lobectomy, Bullectomy, decortication, pleurectomy, Ablation of hemothorax, Ablation of empyema thoracic, Thymectomy, Wedge resection of the lung, Esophageal myotomy, Lung biopsy, Pleural biopsy, excision of mediastinal tumours, mediastinal lymph node dissection, pericardial biopsy etc.
