Dr. Anand Sachithanandan

Dr. Anand Sachithanandan
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Experience: 20 years of experience
Hospital: Sunway Medical Centre, Selangor

About

About Dr. Anand Sachithanandan Dr. Anand Sachithanandan is a skilled Cardiac Surgeon from Malaysia with more than 20 years of experience.  He performs procedures like Coronary Artery Disease (Ischaemic Heart Disease), Lung Cancer, Valvular Heart Disease, Hyperhidrosis (sweaty hands), ASD, Pneumothorax, Empyema, Mediastinal Tumours. He is the co-founder and president of Lung Cancer Network Malaysia and the course director of Cardiac Surgical Advanced Life Support (CALS) and the Editorial Board of the Medical Journal of Malaysia (MJM). He is a member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, the National Heart Association of Malaysia, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), the Malaysian Thoracic Society (MTS), the Malaysian Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (MATCVS), the National Heart Association of Malaysia (NHAM), the (North American) Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), USA and the Royal Society of Medicine, UK. Dr. Anand Sachithanandan has several publications, journals, and articles to his name.   He has completed an MBBS (1998) from the National University of Ireland, Ireland. He has obtained A.F.R.C.S.I (General Surgery, 2001) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and F.R.C.S.I (C-Th) (Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2008) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dr. Anand Sachithanandan is well-versed in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

List of Treatments

  • Cardiac OPD Procedures
  • ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
  • 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
  • Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Echocardiography with Color Doppler
  • Stress Echocardiographyn
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
  • Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
  • 64 Slice CT Angiography
  • PET Scan
  • Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
  • surgery
  • Valve Repair Replacement
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
  • Ross Procedure
  • Cardiac Tumour Treatment
  • Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
  • Minimal access surgeries for valves
  • ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
  • Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
  • Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
  • TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
  • Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
  • ECMO Support
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
  • Peripheral Angiogram
  • Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Mitral Valve Replacement
  • VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
  • Heart Double Valve Replacement
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber
  • CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
  • PDA Device Closure
  • Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
  • Valve Replacement
  • Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
  • Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
  • Heart Implants
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG
  • Angioplasty – 1 Stent
  • Angioplasty – 2 Stent
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Aortic Valve Repair
  • Mitral Valve Repair
  • VP Shunting – Programmable Device
  • AV Canal repair
  • Bentall procedure
  • PDA Ligation
  • ICD Implantation
  • Balloon mitral valvotomy
  • Truncus Arterious Repair
  • Cardiac ablation
  • TAVI
  • LVAD

Work Experience

Associate Professor, Monash University Malaysia

Special Interest

Cardiothoracic Surgery