- Specialty :Heart Institute, Interventional Cardiology
- Designation: Interventional & Structural Heart Cardiology Chairman
- Medanta hospital, gurgaon
About The Doctor
- Performed the first surgically free percutaneous aortic valve implantation in India.
- Author of more than 100 articles and contributor to prestigious medical magazines.
- Given the Padma Shri honor by the Indian President in 2016.
- Leading Indian cardiologist Dr. Praveen Chandra is the director of interventional cardiology at Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon, India. He is an expert in several modern gadgets and technology and is regarded as one of the country’s top angioplasty specialists. In 2016, the President of India presented him with the “Padma Shri” award in recognition of his excellence and accomplishments in the field of medicine. Additionally, he has held the positions of Consultant Cardiologist at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, New Delhi, and Director of Cardiac Cath Lab & Acute MI Services at Max Healthcare.
He is a fellow of both the Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology and the Endovascular Intervention Society of India. Dr. Chandra has held prestigious faculty positions at numerous international conferences and served as the course’s organizer and director in New Delhi in 2005 and 2006. About 100 articles, reviews, and abstracts of his work have been published in various national and international magazines. In India in 1998, he received the esteemed Recognition Award for Success and Achievement in the field of angioplasty.
He performed an operationless percutaneous aortic valve implantation for the first time in India. He also performed the first-ever percutaneous repair of the mitral valve. Both have significant ramifications for our nation, which has the greatest number of valvular heart disease cases in the world. He also developed the Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Vascularization Program in Asia, employed the Angio Jet Thrombectomy Device first, and used FFR and bioabsorbable stents first in India.
Qualification
- King George Medical College, Lucknow, 1991, D.M. (cardiology).
- 1989: M.D. in general medicine from Lucknow’s King George Medical College.
- King George Medical College in Lucknow, M.B.B.S. 1986.
Expertise and Specialization
- Mitral valve replacement under anesthesia (TMVR).
- TAVI stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
- Mitra clip implantation using a needle.
- PTRI stands for percutaneous tricuspid valve replacement.
- Aortic Aneurysm of the Abdomen (AAA)
- Stenting, Angioplasty, and Coronary Angiography.
- Mitral valve balloon augmentation (BMV
- Angioplasty, stenting, and carotid and renal angiography (PTA).
