Department of Cardiology

Department of Cardiology started functioning in July 2011 and in subsequent years, it has established itself as one of the premier tertiary care cardiac centre in the state of Uttar Pradesh. There is a significant increase in the number of interventional cardiac procedures in last few years, including complex coronary angioplasties and valvotomies. The department has capacity of total 35- beds including 3-beded recovery unit and 20-beded ICCU. There is a separate ETO sterilization unit in the department. The department has all modern noninvasive and invasive facilities including Optical coherence tomography guided angioplasties and latest echocardiographic research tools. In the year 2013, the Medical Council of India (MCI) granted permission to start DM cardiology course. Various papers are published in national & international journals from the department.

HOD: Dr Bhuwan C Tiwari  MD, DM

Senior Residents: Dr. Surya Prakash, Dr. Syed Mohad Akram, Dr. Upadhyay Aditya Chandradhar, Dr. Ejaz Ahmed Shams, Dr. Ankit Kumar Rai, Dr. Shikhar Garg, Dr. Mohammad Danish Khan, Dr. Ashish Anand Pushpakar,  Dr. Saransh Baranwal, Dr. Vikas Kumar Pandey, Dr. Ashish Kumar. 

Facilities:

- 2D & 3D Echocardiography
- Trans- esophageal echocardiography with 3-D matrix TEE
- Intraoperative echocardiography
- Dobutamine stress ECHO
- Holter monitoring
- Ambulatory BP monitoring
- Coronary angiography & angioplasty
- Peripheral angiography & angioplasty
- Balloon mitral, aortic and pulmonary valvuloplasty
- Temporary and permanent pacemaker implantation
- ICD & CRT implantation
- Device closure of ASD, VSD & PDA
- Electrophysiological testing and RFA

Infrastructure:

- 20-beded Intensive coronary care unit with advanced cardiac monitors and defibrillators
- One digital flat panel Siemens Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
- “State of the art” OCT and FFR ILUMIEN system
- Intravascular ultrasound
- IABP systems
- Rotablator
- Three ECHO machines with latest Philips IE 33 X- matrix ECHO Machine with 3-D Matrix

TEE & Speckle tracking echocardiography system

Courses Offered: DM

Activities: CTO, Workshops and Congenital Heart Disease Workshop Organized in 2015 & 2016.

Areas of expertise: Interventional cardiology, Structural heart disease, Pediatric cardiology

Research Staff: Mr. Amit Kumar Gautam

Technical staff: Mr. Priyaranjan Pandey, Mr. Mohit Bajpai, Ms. Divya Tiwari, Ms Lekhni Srivastava