Dr. K.R. Bala Krisnan

About Doctor

• Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan is a well-known and reputed Cardio-thoracic surgeon in Chennai.
• He has an experience of more than 30 + Years and has been credited with India’s First LVAD and HVAD pump implant as destination .
• Dr. Balakrishnan has completed his MBBS from JIPMER, MS (General Surgery) from the eminent AIIMS, Delhi. Following which he did his MCh (Cardio thoracic Surgery) from KEM Hospital, University.
• He started India’s First Comprehensive Centrefor Heart Failure Management at Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai.
• Dr. Balakrishnan closely worked with Sir Brian Barratt –Boyes, Greenlane Hospital, New Zealand and Dr Albert Starr at Oregon Health Science University and St. Vincent Hospital,
• Dr. Balakrishnan is also actively engaged with various institutions to develop Pulsatileand continuous flow LVADs (Left Ventricular Assist Device) and molecular biology of ventricular hypertrophy.
• Dr Balakrishnan is first cardiologist in Indiato successfully perform HVAD implant surgery, and LVAD implant surgery as destination .

Hospitals

Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai

Specialization

• End-stage heart failure management (Heart Transplant & VAD implant)
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Lung Transplant

List Of Treatments

• Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
• Closure of defects like ASD VSD
• 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
• PDA Device Closure
• Coronary Angiogram
• Renal Angiogram
• Cerebral Angiogram
• Peripheral Angiogram
• PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
• Coronary Angioplasty
• Peripheral Angioplasty
• Aortic Stent Grafting
• EPS-Electrophysiological
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
• IVC Filter Insertion
• Biventricular Pacing
• AICD
• Trigger Point Injection (TPI)
• PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
• Cardiac Catherisation for congenital
• heart disease
• Balloon Septostomy
• Pulmonary and Mitral
• Closure of Fistulas
• Fetal Echocardiogram
• Pediatric interventional cardiology
• CARDIAC SURGERY – ADULTS
• Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
• surgery
• Valve Repair Replacement
• Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
• Ross Procedure
• Cardiac Tumour Treatment
• Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Treatment
• Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
• Minimal access surgeries for valves
• ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
• Aortofemoral Bypass Surgery
• PTE – Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
• Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
• 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 )
• Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
• Valve Replacement
• Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
• Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
• Heart Implants
• Cardiac OPD Procedures
• ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
• 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
• Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
• Echocardiography with Color Doppler
• Transesophageal Echocardiography – TEE
• Stress Echocardiographyn
• Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
• Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
• 64 Slice CT Angiography
• PET Scan
• Angiography
• Heart transplant

Work Experience

• Director, Fortis Malar Hospital ,Chennai
• Senior Registrar ,Sir Brian Baratt-Boyes, Cardio Thoracic Unit, Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand
• Specialist ,Railway Hospital, Perambur, Madras

Education

• MBBS, JIPMER, Pondicherry
• MS, AIIMS
• MCh, KEM Hospital ,University of Bombay

Awards

• Awarded a distinction in M.Ch which was first ever awarded by Bombay
• University in Cardio Thoracic Speciality
• Hiralal gold medal in surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi

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