- Specialty: cardiac surgery, paediatric cardiology, and cardiology
- Designation: Head – paediatric cardiology
- Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon.
About the doctor
- She joined the pool officer program at Chandigarh’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) after completing a two-year fellowship in pediatric cardiology. During her three years there, she developed her clinical paediatric cardiology and patient care skills. She has considerable experience in trans-esophageal echocardiography, pediatric and neonatal echocardiography, and procedures performed in catheterization labs.
Since she began working at Artemis Hospitals in 2010, Dr. Nidhi Rawal has aggressively kept the pediatric cardiology department up to date on the most recent techniques. She has contributed significantly to the DNB’s teaching program.
Dr. Nidhi Rawal has a strong interest in research and routinely attends CMEs and national conferences. She has a long list of national and international publications to her name.
Qualification
- KGMC, Lucknow, MBBS in 2000.
- Kanpur’s G.S.V.M. Medical College awarded an MD in 2004.
- Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship of National Board (FNB) from Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, 2006.
Membership
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics life member.
- Life member of the Indian Pediatric Cardiac Society.
Clinical Focus
- Echo in neonates and children.
- Congenital heart disease in adults Echo.
- TEE.
- Cath Lab interventions for children.
- Baby Echo.
Procedure
- ASD, VSD, and closure of PDAs.
- Aortic and pulmonary valve balloon dilatation.
- Coarctation of the aorta with balloon dilatation.
- Atrial septostomy balloon.
- stenting a PDA.
- Stenting of the branch pulmonary artery.
- Stenting for aortic coarctation.
- coiling of MAPCAs.
- Coronary fistula closure by percutaneous means.
- implanting a pacemaker temporarily.
- cardiac catheterization and an angiography study for diagnosis.
