Dr. Ramji Mehrotra

About Doctor

He's got his CABGS on point. How to treat patients with advanced heart failure, coronary artery disease, and heart disease.

He has completed over 15,000 cardiovascular operations, including over 1,000 on children.

As a pediatric heart transplant surgeon, he specializes in minimally invasive incision surgeries, pacemakers, and redo complex congenital heart surgeries such as Arterial switches, double switches, Senning, Mustard, Norwood BDG, Fontan, PDA, Coarctation of the aorta ASD, VSD, AV canals Rastelli, RV-PA conduits, Pulmonary atresia, TOF, and more.

Including cardiac transplantation and the implantation of ventricular assist devices, he has experience with every facet of cardiac surgery. Children's Hospital Boston, an academic affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is where he completed his fellowship in cardiac surgery.

He has studied with such luminaries as Drs. Jonas, Del Nido, and Mayer. Among the many experts in the field are Dt. Stella Van Praag, Dr. Rt. Richard Van Praag, Dr. David Wessel, and many others.

He gained an understanding of the finer points of surgery, the importance of intra-operative management, the role of mechanical heart support (ECMO) in resuscitation, and the principles of early operation for the correction of complex congenital diseases.

He has performed over a thousand surgeries, including donor harvests for cardiac transplants, approximately 200 redos, approximately 250 surgeries on patients in the Geriatric age group, and numerous complex cases involving prior patent LIMA etc., multiple comorbidities, and the like.

In Mumbai, India, he performed the first successful arterial switch operation.

At the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, he established a pediatric cardiac surgery unit.

At Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, they did the first total arterial revascularization and the first total arterial revascularization with bilateral mammary arteries. City of New Delhi. 

Medical Qualifications

• MBBS from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU), 1990
• MS in General Surgery from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU), 1992
• MCh in Cardio Thoracic Surgery from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1996 

Clinical Expertise

Professional Work Experience

• He headed the Fortis Excorts Heart Institute in New Delhi as its Director (CTVS).
• Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi; Senior Consultant (CTVS).
• At the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, he worked as a consultant cardiac surgeon.
• He was a Cardiac Surgery Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• He completed a fellowship in cardiac surgery at the Children's Hospital of Massachusetts at Harvard Medical School. 

Career Highlights

• He has over 26 years of experience in his field. Total artery bypass grafting (CABG), complex bypass surgery (including endarterectomies), aortic valve repair and replacement (AVR), sutureless aortic valve replacement (SVR), aneurysm surgery (including Bentall operations), congenital heart surgery (CHS), and minimal access cardiac surgery (MACS) are all areas of expertise.
• He has dealt with a wide variety of difficult medical cases, earning praise for his precision in diagnosis and compassionate care for his patients. 

Research and Fellowships

• Delhi Medical Council 

Awards and Recoginition

• At the Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi, he was the first to perform a total arterial revascularization.
• At Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi, he performed the world's first total arterial revascularization with the help of bilateral mammary arteries.
• At the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi, he initiated a total arterial revascularization program utilizing bilateral mammary arteries.
• At Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi, he performed the world's first open-patch coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB).
• He completed a total arterial CABG procedure on a 10-year-old patient in India.
• In Mumbai, India, he performed the first successful arterial switch operation.
• He began specializing in pediatric cardiac surgery at New Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.
• He instituted Children's Cardiac Surgery at the Asian Heart Hospital in Mumbai.
• He was honored as one of the "Legends of Cardiac Surgery" by Time of India.