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Heart Institute at Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, provides comprehensive tertiary level cardiac care for patients with “Human Touch”. It has the state of the art equipment comparable to any of the International Hospitals with some of the best doctors with widely acclaimed Clinical and International skills.
• Largest series of endoscopic heart surgeries in south India
• Specializing in beating heart surgeries
• Has the distinction of having done over Ten thousand angiograms, five thousand angioplasties
• Equipped to do heart transplants
• Specializes in Minimal access cardiac surgeries, have the credit of doing the most number of surgeries in the south of Vindyas
• Pioneered open heart surgeries and cardiac catheterization, in the early 80's.
• Conducted over 90,000 cardiac surgeries - one of only 10 hospital groups in the world to achieve these volumes.
• Achieved a 99.6% success rate in cardiac bypass surgeries; over 91% of which were beating heart surgeries.
• Introduced cutting edge procedures like off-pump and beating-heart surgery, either by thoracotomy (minimal invasive access) or classical sternotomy, trans-radial angioplasty and stenting, mitral valve replacement.
• Largest series of aortic valve replacements with stentless heart valve bioprosthesis.
• Performed successful heart surgery on a 2 day old baby, and successfully implanted a pacemaker on a 97 year old patient.
• India's first keyhole multiple bypass surgery, was conducted at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi. This technique uses a combination of small holes in the chest and a small incision, made indirectly over the coronary artery to be bypassed. It is often performed using robotics and video-imaging, which help the surgeon operate in a small area.
• First hospital group to bring the 320 Slice CT- Angio scan system and the 64 Slice CT-Angio scan system to India.
• Apollo Hospitals Chennai completed 10,000 Coronary Angioplasties in 2009, including many refined procedures like Multi-Vessel Angioplasty, Left Main Angioplasty and Bifurcation Lesions.
• Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, completed a total of 25,000 coronary bypass procedures including 10,000 beating heart coronary bypass operations in 2009.
• Apollo launched SACH - Save A Child's Heart - aimed at providing pediatric cardiac care to underprivileged children.
• First private healthcare provider to perform a heart transplant in 1995.
• An unusual case of Myocardial infarction [heart attack] involving two areas in the heart [anterior and inferior walls], was successfully treated at Apollo Hospitals Chennai.
• Latest M guard stent technology, a specially designed Mesh covered stent, was used to save a 27 year old man from an acute heart attack ! Apollo Hospital first to introduce the technology in Chennai !
• Satguru Partap Singh Apollo Hospitals, Ludhian introduced multi-vessel beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery, using Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) technique.
• The Apollo Hospitals, one of the six centres in India to be part of a global trial on using drug-eluting bio-resorbable stents.
- Arrhythmias (Abnormal or irregular heart rhythms)
- Valve dysfunctions
- Aorta Diseases
- Adult Congenital Heart Diseases
- Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
- Carotid Artery Disease/ Stroke
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Dr. Ramamurthy Bingi Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr. Ramamurthy Bingi, is a Cardiologist of vast experience. He is a renowned specialist in his field, who has carved a niche for himself. An able doctor, he has the credit of performing more than 7000 Cath procedures. He is active in Interventional Cardiology. He is with the Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, as a Senior Consultant for the last four years. Additionally, he is successfully running his own centre, the Bingi’s Heart Care Centre.
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Dr. K. B. Prasad Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr. K.B.Prasad, is a Consultant in the Department of Cardiology in Apollo Hospitals Bangalore. Presently, he is also a Consultant for premier Institutions like Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Sagar Apollo Hospital, Trinity Heart Foundation and Raghav’s Diagnostic Centre, Bangalore. Having 13 years of experience in this field, he has conducted various procedures.
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Dr. Krishna Mohan Nair Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr Krishna Mohan Nair is one of the eminent Cardiologists, at Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, can boast of. A doctor of International repute, he is an expert in the department of Non-Invasive Cardiology. Cardiology and Cardio Thoracic Surgery at Apollo Hospitals are aiming to be one of the best in the field of Cardio Vascular groups. Specialists like Dr. Nair have been recognized for their contributions to the specialty through National and International expertise.
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Dr. Girish B Navasundi Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr Girish B Navasundi who has an extensive experience in the field of Cardiology and Endocrinology has performed over 1700 Angiograms, through Femoral, Radial and Ulnar approach. This, besides having performed 350 Angioplasties both Coronary and Peripheral PDA Coil Closures, ASD Device Closures, IVC Filter deployment 75 temporary Pace Maker Implantations, VVI Pace maker Implantation and a DDIR Pace maker Implantation.
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Dr. B Ramesh Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr.B.Ramesh has vast experience in Clinical and Interventional Cardiology. He has performed large number of angioplasties and Balloon Mitral Valvotomies in the past 23 years. He has a passion for taking up complex coronary angioplasties and is confident of achieving the best results. He also holds rich experience in pacemaker implantations and has performed lots of device closures for Atrial Septal defect and PDA. In the last two decades he has performed numerous Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation for Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, which may also the be largest number in the country.
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Dr. Yogesh Kumar Kothari Visiting Consultant, Department of Cardiology
Dr. Yogesh Kumar Kothari, is a visiting Consultant in the Department of Cardiology. Having seven years of experience in the field, he joined Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, to realize his dream of becoming a reputed Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist.
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Dr. Jayaranganathan M Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology
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Dr. Sathyaki Purushottam Nambala Senior Consultant, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Dr Sathyaki Nambala is a Senior Consultant and one of the leading authorities in the country in surgery of the heart, lung and blood vessels. With more than ten years of experience in heart surgery he has performed close to 7000 heart operations both in adults and children and is well known for his expertise in Totally Videoscopic or Keyhole Heart Surgery. Having worked with leading exponents at the prestigious Harvard Medical School affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and at the Toronto University’s, Toronto General Hospital, Dr Nambala offers expertise and outcomes in heart surgery that is parallel to the finest hospital’s in the world. He has one of the largest series of minimal access heart operations in Southern India with close to a 1000 having been performed.
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Dr. P Srinivasa Reddy Senior Consultant, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Been in Cardiothorasic Surgery practice for the past 20 years. Trained at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland , New Zealand. Been Chief Cadiothorasic Surgeon at Southern Railway Head Quarters Hospital, Perambur, Chennai prior to joining Apollo. Have performed over 6500 open heart operations including CABG, Valve repairs and replacements, vascular and lung surgery. Areas of special expertise – Heart failure orepations ((Dor procedure), Aneurysm repair, pulmonary thromboendartertectomy and Arrhythmia surgery. Have over 20 publications in peer reviewed International journals.
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