Dr. Y Vijayachandra Reddy

Dr Y Vijayachandra Reddy is a globally recognized Interventional Cardiologist associated with Apollo Hospital, Greams Road. With over 36 years of extensive experience in the field, he is a pioneer in trans-radial interventions and complex high-risk procedures, including left-main angioplasty and stenting, ostial and bifurcation coronary interventions, and chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs).

He was previously associated with the University of Queensland, Australia and TNMGR Medical University. Dr Vijayachandra is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarctions (MI) and his unmatched success in PCI procedures for patients with cardiogenic shock.

His professional experience and expertise include:

• Over 30,000 invasive procedures performed
• 7,000 PCI procedures, including 550 in cardiogenic shock
• 400 PTMC (Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy) procedures
• 700 cardiac device implantations, including PPI, CRT, AICD
• Numerous TEVAR and EVAR procedures, including pioneering hybrid procedures
• 250 renal angioplasties and stentings
• More than 150 IVC filter implantations

Comprehensive cardiac services offered by him are:

1. Kidney Transplantation
2. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
3. Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
4. Permanent Pacemaker Implantation
5. Balloon Mitral Valvotomy (PTMC)
6. Arrhythmia Treatments and Management
7. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
8. Coronary Angiogram and Primary Angioplasty
9. Cardiac Device Implantations

Dr Reddy has won various awards and earned many certifications throughout his career, a few of them are listed below:

1. The Best Doctor Award for Cardiology, TNMGR Medical University, Chennai, 2011
2. The Outstanding Researcher Award for contributions to interventional vascular therapeutics, Summit TCT Asia Pacific 2009, Seoul
3. TAMPA – LIMRA Professional Excellence Award for Cardiology, 2016

Dr Y Vijayachandra Reddy completed his education as follows:

• DNB General Medicine from PGIMER Chandigarh in 1991
• DM Cardiology from SGPGIMS in 1994
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)
• Fellow of the Cardiological Society of India (FCSI)
• Fellow of the Indian College of Cardiology (FICC)
• Fellow of the Indian Society of Cardiology (FISC)
• British Commonwealth Scholar in Interventional Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK

He is an active member of the Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

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