Achievements
- Experience of performing nearly 15,000 heart operations.
- Have the experience of highest member of Mitral Valve Replacement Operation with Complete Chordal Preservation & Artificial Chordal Reconstruction. This is one of the latest technique of Mitral Valve surgery.Presented this work in the Annual Conference of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery held at Madras in February 2002.
- Performed first time in South India, the operation of Thoracoscopic Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus, on a six year old male child in 1996.
- One of the first users and now have the largest experience in using Stentless Bioprosthetic Valve Replacement Surgery for Aortic Valve disease in India. This is the state of the art Tissue Heart Valve not yet commonly used in India in other Cardiac surgery centres.