Cardiology

Introduction

The Department of Cardiology at AIIMS was established under the leadership of Prof. Sujoy B. Roy. The department has developed excellent facilities for clinical care and has fully developed facilities for adult and pediatric interventions including coronary interventions, valvuloplasty, device closure of congenital shunts and electrophysiology services (including radiofrequency ablation, pacemaker, bi-ventricular pacemaker and cardioverter defibrillator implantation). Laboratory testing facilities include treadmill testing, holter recording, echocardiography (including transthoracic, transesophageal, 3-D and fetal echocardiography), Tilt testing for syncope and electrophysiology testing including CARTO system mapping. The department has done pioneering work in the field of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease including juvenile mitral stenosis, coronary artery disease including angioplasties, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and congenital heart diseases.

Following are the names of the Heads of the Department of Cardiology since its inception:

Prof. Sujoy B Roy

Prof. Madan Lal Bhatia

Prof. Rajan Tandon

Prof. Harbans Singh Wasir

Prof. Subhash Chand Manchanda

Prof.Kewal Krishan Talwar

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy

Prof. Vinay Kumar Bahl (Present Head of the Department)