Aortic Surgery Program Contributions

Aortic Surgery Program

Developed the largest Aortic Surgery program in India (conducted more than 1700 Aortic operations in children/adults, conducting 200 Aortic Surgeries every year).
This includes 1100 Aortic Root surgeries (Largest individual experience)
Achieved nearly 0% mortality for non-dissecting Ascending Aortic surgery
Overall mortality for Type A Dissections: 2.5% (Accepted as per IRAD: 15-25%)
Modified Circuit for Retrograde Central Perfusion- Asian Cardiovascular Thoracic Annals, 2003, March:11(1);85-86
Part of Principal Investigators at International Registry of Aortic Dissections. Only center from India as part of IRAD. Second center in Asia.
One of the largest experiences on Redo-Aortic surgeries in the World. Initial experiences presented at Aortic Surgery Symposium in New York.
Started one of the earliest endovascular programs of treatment of Aortic Diseases in collaboration with Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, Cardiac Radiologist, AIIMS, New Delhi (1997).