Dr. Ganeshakrishnan Iyer

Dr. Ganeshakrishnan Iyer
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Experience: 25 years of experience
Hospital: Aster CMI Hospital (Hebbel) Bangalore

About

About Dr. Ganeshakrishnan Iyer Dr. Ganeshakrishnan Iyer is a highly experienced Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, practicing successfully for more than 25+ years. In his illustrious career spanning over two decades, he has performed 12,000 Open Heart Surgeries. He is skilled in performing complex Adult and Paediatric Heart Surgeries. He has special acumen for Mitral Valve Repair, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Aneurysm, Aortic Valve Sparing Procedure, and Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation. He takes a keen interest in teaching and has been associated with training programmes on Basic Clinical Surgery and Patient Management for routine as well as emergency cases, meant for graduate medical students. He regularly attends workshops and conferences and presents papers in them. He is also engaged in research work and so far has published several papers in more than 12 renowned National and International Medical Journals. After graduating with MBBS from Grant Medical College, Mumbai in 1986, he pursued MS in General Surgery in the same college in 1990. Later he did MCh in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery in Seth GS College and KEM Hospital University, Mumbai in 1993. Thereafter, he received Training Fellowship in Adult and Paediatric Cardiac Surgery including Thoracic Organ Transplantation, in USA and Canada.

List of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • 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
  • heart disease
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • Peripheral Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • 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
  • Heart Surgery
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG

Work Experience

Senior Consultant, Manipal Hospital (Old Airport Road) Bangalore

Senior Consultant, Apollo Hospital (Bannerghatta Road) Bangalore

Senior Consultant, Wockhardt Hospital, Bangalore

Senior Resident, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland

Emeritus Consultant, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

Senior Registrar, The Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Special Interest

Open Heart Surgery,
Complex Adult and Paediatric Heart Surgery,
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery,
Aortic Aneurysm,
Aortic Valve Sparing Procedure,
Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation