Dr. Amit Kumar Chaurasia
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Dr. Amit Kumar Chaurasia is a senior interventional cardiologist with more than 20 years of experience, one of the leading specialists in India in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI/TAVR) and the treatment of structural heart diseases. At Artemis Hospital (Gurgaon) he holds the positions of head of the department, head of the catheterization laboratory, head of the TAVI/TAVR and structural heart disease program, and Senior Consultant in cardiology.
Dr. Chaurasia education is a rare combination of three leading state institutions in India: he received his MBBS degree at JIPMER (Pondicherry), his MD in Internal Medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, and his DM in Cardiology at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) in Trivandrum. He also completed an international fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Hungarian Institute of Cardiology in Budapest.
He has performed more than 1,000 TAVI/TAVR procedures and more than 10,000 cardiac interventions. Since 2016 he has been an official Proctor of the Medtronic company for the CoreValve and Evolut R systems. Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC).
Achievements and awards
About Dr. Amit Kumar Chaurasia
Main specialization: interventional cardiology.
Narrow areas:
- TAVI/TAVR — transcatheter aortic valve implantation (one of the pioneers of this field in India)
- Structural heart diseases: TPVR (transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement), TMVR (transcatheter mitral valve replacement), MitraClip, balloon mitral valvotomy (BMV)
- Complex coronary interventions: operations on the left main coronary artery, chronic total occlusions (CTO)
- Closure of congenital heart defects: ASD, VSD, PDA, pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas (using devices)
- Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) — more than 50 procedures
- Peripheral interventions: carotid and aortoiliac procedures, TEVAR/EVAR
- 2004 — Higher medical education, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry
- 2008 — Doctor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
- 2011 — Doctor of Medicine in Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum
- 2014–2016 — Fellowship in interventional cardiology, including treatment of coronary vessels and adult structural heart diseases, Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary
- 2016 — Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
- 2008 (July–December) — Lecturer in Internal Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur, Nepal
- 2012–2013 — Assistant Professor of Cardiology, College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur, Nepal
- 2013 (April–October) — Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi
- Consultant in Interventional Cardiology, Bankers Heart Institute, Surat
- Consultant in Interventional Cardiology, BLK Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi
- Since March 2016 — Proctor for Medtronic for the CoreValve, Evolut R, and TEVAR/EVAR systems
- Director of the TAVI/TAVR and Structural Heart Disease Program, Senior Consultant in Cardiology, Eternal Hospital (EHCC), Jaipur
- Since December 2017 — DNB Cardiology training supervisor, Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon, and BLK Hospital, New Delhi
- Current position: Head of Department, Head of the Catheterization Laboratory, Head of the TAVI/TAVR and Structural Heart Disease Program, Senior Consultant in Interventional Cardiology — Artemis Hospitals, Gurgaon
Has peer-reviewed publications in international journals, including:
- Choudhary D, Chaurasia AK et al. Prevalence of coronary artery disease in rheumatic heart disease. Advances in Human Biology, 2016
- Fontos G, Chaurasia AK et al. The first 200 transcatheter aortic valve implantations at the Hungarian Institute of Cardiology. Orvosi Hetilap, 2016
- Chaurasia AK et al. Five-year results of consecutive interventions on the unprotected left main coronary artery. Acta Cardiologica, 2016
- Agrawal G, Chaurasia AK, Sethi KS. An unusual combination (case report)
Regularly delivers talks at national and international conferences on interventional cardiology.
- European Society of Cardiology (FESC, since 2016)
- Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC)
- Cardiological Society of India (CSI)
Artemis Health Institute is a multi-specialty hospital in Gurgaon, India, founded in 2007. It is one of the leading private medical centers in Northern India, equipped with modern equipment and certified by JCI and NABH.
The cardiology department of the hospital is a center of excellence in the treatment of complex heart diseases. A wide range of interventional and surgical procedures is performed here: coronary angioplasty, stenting, TAVI/TAVR, device implantation, and operations on heart structures.
A multidisciplinary team of specialists works in close cooperation, which ensures an individualized approach to each patient and a high level of safety in performing even the most complex interventions.
