Dr. V V Bashi

Specialist:         Cardiothoracic & vascular surgeon
Experience:     36+ years of experience
Hospital:           SIMS Hospital Vadapalani, Chennai

Brief About Doctor:

• Director & Senior Consultant | Institute of Cardiac & Advanced Aortic Diseases
• Over a span of 36 years, has performed more than 15,000 cardiovascular and thoracic surgeries. Pioneer in beating heart coronary bypass surgery and arterial grafting for coronary artery disease in India.
• One of the most experienced surgeons in complex aortic aneurysm surgeries in India and has performed more than 1000 aneurysm surgeries. This includes more than 400 aortic root replacements, 150 aortic arch replacements, thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic operations, hybrid procedures of the aortic arch and thoraco-abdominal aorta.

• Other surgical procedure experience includes more than 400 mitral valve repairs, 150 tricuspid valve procedures, double valve replacement operations, adult congenital heart surgeries, carotid endarterectomy, pulmonary operations, pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy, and heart transplant.
• Specialist in complex re-operations for aortic aneurysms, coronary bypass, and valve surgeries and has performed more than 300 of these procedures.
• Published more than 50 articles in reputed, national and international journals.
• Presented more than 200 papers in various national and international meetings.
  

SPECIALISATION:

• Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
• Complex Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
• Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
• Aortic Arch Replacement
• Aortic Root Replacement
• Frozen Elephant trunk operation
• Aortic Dissection
• CABG ( both On & Off Pump)
• Valve Repair and Replacement
• Adult Congenital Heart Surgeries
• Redo Heart Surgeries
• Heart Transplant
  

List of Treatments:

• Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
• Coronary Artery Surgery
• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
• Cardiac OPD Procedures
• ECG-Treadmill Test TMT

• 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
• Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
• Echocardiography with Color Doppler
• Stress Echocardiographyn
• Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
• Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
• 64 Slice CT Angiography
• PET Scan
• Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
• surgery
• Valve Repair Replacement
• Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
• Ross Procedure
• Cardiac Tumour Treatment
• Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
• Minimal access surgeries for valves
• ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
• Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
• Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
• TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
• Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
• ECMO Support
• heart disease
• Device Closure- ASD VSD
• Balloon Septostomy
• Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
• Pulmonary and Mitral
• Fetal Echocardiogram
• Coronary Angiogram
• Peripheral Angiogram
• PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
• Coronary Angioplasty
• Aortic Stent Grafting
• EPS-Electrophysiological
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
• Biventricular Pacing
• AICD
• PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
• Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
• Angiography
• 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 Therapy)
• PDA Device Closure
• Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
• Valve Replacement
• Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
• Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
• Heart Implants
• Heart Surgery
• Rotational Atherectomy
• Redo CABG
• Angioplasty – 1 Stent
• Angioplasty – 2 Stent
• Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
• Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
• Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
• Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
• Aortic Valve Repair
• Mitral Valve Repair
• VP Shunting – Programmable Device
• AV Canal repair
• Bentall procedure
• PDA Ligation
• CRT – D (MRI Compatible)
• CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)
• CRT – P
• Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE
• ICD Implantation
• Cardiac catheterization
• Balloon mitral valvotomy
• Truncus Arterious Repair
• Cardiac ablation
• TAVI
• LVAD

EDUCATION:

• MBBS
• MS
• Fellowship
• MCh

Honours And Awards:

• 2017 Tamil Nadu Medical Practitioners LIMRA Award for eminent medical personality
• 2013 AKMG Emirates – Dubai chapter life time achievement award – 2013
• 2013 Indo-Australian award for meritorious service
• 2011 Lifetime achievement award from Tamilnadu MGR Medical University
• 2009 Rotary Club Marina, Madras For the sake of the Honour award
• 2009 Melvin Jones Worthy Person Award from Lion’s club, Chennai