Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery

The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery

The Salam Centre is run and managed by the Italian based humanitarian organisation EMERGENCY.
Since April 2007, the Centre provides high standard, free of charge paediatric and adult cardiac surgery.

Cath Lab

In 45 months, the Cath Lab activity was as follows:

Diagnostic procedures 853
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty 76
Interventions for congenital heart diseases 104
Pacemakers implants 23
Pericardiocentesis 2

 

PROCEDURES FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES

Pulmonary valvuloplasty

70
Aortic valvuloplasty 2
Tricuspid valvuloplasty 1
PDA closure 18
ASD closure 3
VSD closure 2
Aortoplasty for coarctation 3
Rashkind septostomy 5

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