A guide to your next decision
Compare heart procedures, specialist teams, published results and complete treatment programmes.
Source-linked guidance25 programmes · 12 countries
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Find the treatment for your diagnosis, then compare the method, specialist team and total care package. This guide connects 36 specialists and 25 clinic programmes with clinical research and five detailed treatment programmes.
Profiles connect doctors to their clinical focus, hospital and source-linked research.
Robotic CABG at Hisar is advertised at $20,000; CABG at Teknon at $41,411.97. The included care and methods differ.
Sources: Hisar robotic CABG — advertised Bookimed package · Xavier Ruyra Baliarda — teknon cabg
A 330-patient mitral-repair trial found a one-day shorter median hospital stay with minithoracotomy, without superior physical function at 12 weeks.
Sources: UK Mini Mitral trial · JAMA (2023)
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Sources: ACC revascularization guidance (2021) · ESC/EACTS valve guidance (2025) · AHA/ACC HCM guidance (2024)
Sources: Mayo Clinic: minimally invasive surgery · STS risk calculators
Hangzhou, China
Yong Cui
Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital
A 4–5 cm underarm incision keeps the breastbone intact: no divided breastbone to heal while you rebuild walking and everyday activity.
$25,000–40,000 estimated cost
USD · estimated programme range · updated 8 October 2026.
Published 100-patient MESM series; separate 132-patient mid-cavity conference report and earlier 148-patient modified-Morrow study.
Istanbul, Turkey
Faruk Gençoğlu
Hisar Hospital Intercontinental
An advertised $20,000 robotic bypass package with preoperative tests, nursing, seven hospital days, hotel accommodation and transfers.
$20,000 advertised package
USD · advertised offer checked 8 October 2026.
An advertised named-surgeon package with explicit medical and travel services; no package-specific robotic CABG outcomes are supplied.
Cleveland, United States
Nicholas Smedira
Cleveland Clinic HCM Center
Specialist HCM imaging and myectomy that can also correct mitral-leaflet or papillary-muscle causes of obstruction.
Quote on request
Individual estimate after assessment.
A historical series of 1,559 LVOT operations, including 1,530 myectomies and 522 myectomies with mitral or subvalvular intervention.
You may have a diagnosis, a proposed operation or a question after a consultation. Choose the closest starting point; you do not need to know the name of every technique.
CABG, stents and the reasons for choosing each.
02 / FIND YOUR PATHRepair, replacement and catheter options.
03 / FIND YOUR PATHLocation, timing and the right aortic team.
04 / FIND YOUR PATHMedicines, septal reduction and specialist care.
05 / FIND YOUR PATHUnderstand sternotomy, alternatives and recovery.
06 / FIND YOUR PATHCompare suitability, recovery and your lifetime valve plan.
Start with the diagnosis or the operation you were offered. A Bookimed coordinator can help route your request to the appropriate clinical team.
Help me find my starting point Explore other heart conditions ↓Sources: ACC revascularization guidance (2021) · ESC/EACTS valve guidance (2025) · ACC/AHA aortic guidance (2022) · AHA/ACC HCM guidance (2024)
“Robotic”, “bypass” and “valve repair” describe different parts of a plan. First identify the heart problem and the intended benefit. Then compare suitable treatments. Finally, choose a team with experience in that exact procedure.
| Decision | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| The condition | The affected structure and severity | Coronary arteries, a valve, the aorta or obstructive HCM |
| The treatment | The correction the operation is designed to make | Bypass, valve repair or replacement, aortic reconstruction or myectomy |
| The access | The route used to reach the heart | Sternotomy, a smaller chest incision, robotic assistance or a catheter |
Sources: ACC revascularization guidance (2021) · ESC/EACTS valve guidance (2025) · Mayo Clinic: minimally invasive surgery · AHA/ACC HCM guidance (2024)
A smaller incision describes access, not the operation itself. Compare the same procedure and the recovery milestone that matters to you. In a randomized mitral-repair trial, a shorter hospital stay did not translate into superior physical function at 12 weeks. The minimally invasive guide explains that distinction.
Sources: UK Mini Mitral trial · JAMA (2023)
Explore 25 named clinic programmes across 11 countries, with linked doctors, methods and clinical evidence. The treatment-programme pages add price and care-package detail where it is available.
Turkey · Gebze, Kocaeli (Istanbul region)
Complex valve repair and valve-sparing aortic-root surgery
Anadolu in Gebze offers complex valve repair and replacement of an enlarged aortic root while retaining the natural valve. Smaller-incision valve operations and selected robotic mitral or tricuspid procedures are also part of its cardiovascular programme.
What this means for your choiceComplex valve repair and valve-sparing root replacement provide routes to retain suitable native valve tissue.
Clinic, specialists and research →Sources: Cardiovascular Surgery — Anadolu Medical Center · Robotic Surgery — Anadolu Medical Center · Prof. Haşim Üstünsoy | Anadolu Medical Center · Prof. Haşim Üstünsoy — Anadolu Medical Center
Germany · Berlin
Robotic valve repair with a structured early-recovery pathway
DHZC in Berlin pairs robotic mitral repair with ERMICS, a recovery pathway linking anaesthesia, pain control and early mobilisation. Its bypass service also describes conventional, beating-heart and selected robotic approaches.
What this means for your choiceThe ERMICS pathway connects minimally invasive valve surgery with pain control and early mobilisation; suitable patients reach a regular ward on the same day.
Clinic, specialists and research →Sources: DHZC robotic cardiac surgery programme — 12 November 2025 · Enhanced recovery and ERMICS after minimally invasive cardiac surgery · Bypasschirurgie | DHZC · Mitral valve treatment at DHZC
Adults with congenital heart disease need specialist care even after childhood surgery. Advanced heart failure may involve treatment of an underlying coronary or valve problem, an assist device or transplantation.
In patients with atrial fibrillation already needing cardiac surgery, rhythm surgery and left-atrial-appendage treatment address different risks. Appendage closure does not automatically replace anticoagulants.
Sources: ACC/AHA adult congenital guidance (2025) · AHA: advanced heart-failure referral · AHA: advanced heart-failure options · STS: AF during cardiac surgery · LAAOS III trial · ACC
Bring the diagnosis, your recent imaging reports and the proposed operation together. A second opinion is more useful when the next team can explain what it would do, why, and how that differs from the first recommendation.
Start a request on Bookimed with your treatment topic already selected. A coordinator can help you clarify the team, destination, recovery plan and costs.
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