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Dr. G Chandrashekar

Dr. G Chandrashekar

Visiting Consultant – Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery


Speciality
: Cardiology, Vascular Surgery,
Qualification
: MBBS, MS, MCh
Experience
:
Languages Spoken
: English, Hindi, Kannada

About

Dr G Chandrashekar MBBS, MS, MCh (Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)

A senior cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeon with an experience of over 30 years in the field. Worked as Senior Consultant and Head Department of Cardiac Surgery at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences at Whitefield Bangalore for eight years. Trained a dozen young cardiac surgeons who are presently successfully working in corporate sector. Earlier trained in beating heart bypass surgery and minimal access cardiac surgery in the early 2000s in Belgium. Performed over 10000 heart, lung and vascular surgical procedures with a high success rate. Adept at Adult Cardiac Surgery especially beating heart bypass surgery, valve repairs, Total Arterial Revascularisation, valve replacement surgeries etc., Adept at Paediatric and Congenital Heart surgical procedures. Adept at Minimal Access Cardiac Surgical Procedures. Adept at Aortic Aneurysm surgeries. various vascular surgeries.

Qualification

  • MBBS, MS – General Surgery,
  • MCh – Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery,
  • Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery

Recognition

  1. Life Member; Indian Medical Association
  2. ⁠Life Member; Indian Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
  3. ⁠Life Member ; Vascular Society of India
  4. ⁠Joint Organising Secretary, CTCON’99
  5. ⁠Visiting Scholar, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, UCSD, San Diego, USA
  6. ⁠Organising Secretary, International Live Workshop on Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery, held at SSSIHMS, Whitefield, Bangalore.

Publications

Letter to the Editor “Recovery from paraplegia following aortic saddle embolism” Paraplegia 31 (1993) 415, Author: G.Chandrashekar.

Case report “Recovery from paraplegia following aortic saddle embolism” Paraplegia 32(1994) 112-116.

Letter to Editor “Choriocarcinoma presenting as intracardiac (intracavitary) tumor’, International Journal of Cardiology 50 (1995) 197. Author: Dr.G.Chandrashekar.

Repair of an aortoesophageal fistula due a penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer of the descending thoracic aorta and literature review.

Chandrashekar Guruvegowda, Vijay MN Kumar, Ashok k Kumar

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2007, 2:12 ​

http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/2/1/12

Am J Med Qual. 2011 May-Jun; 26(3):241-2. Epub 2011 Mar 7.

Electronic discharge summary to speed patient discharge.

Choudhary V, Chandrashekar G, Subaraya PK, Satheesh SV, Krishna S,

Rakoff M.

  • Customized training improves compliance and comprehension with a surgical safety checklist compared with standard training. J Patient Safety 2015; Rakoff D, Akella K, Guruvegowda C , Chhajwani S, Seshadri S, Sola S.  Published ahead of print.
  • Surgical Strategies in The management of Anomalous origin of Left Coronary Artery from Pulmonary Artery (alcapa) in different age groups – a 14 – year experience: Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences – Whitefield Bangalore (WON the award for best paper at the IACTs national conference held at Hyderabad ; Autohrs; dr pooja shetty, dr vijay l, dr hiremath cs, dr g chandrashekar, dr voleti choudary. accepted for publication in Indian journal of cardiothoracic surgery 20
  • RE- REDO MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT THROUGH MINIMAL ACCESS IN A CASE OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS – A CASE REPORT

Presented at The Mitral Conclave, New York as part of AATS Centennial meeting April 27-28, 2017

Pooja S Shetty, C. S. Hiremath, G. Chandrashekar, L. Vijay, Anurag Ramesh Vidhale, Sudheer Gandrakota, Tejdeep Dudde, Krishna Manohar, Voleti Choudhary, Sathya Swaroop, Prayaag Kini, P. K. Dash

Expertise

  • Adult Cardiac Surgery: Beating Heart Bypass Surgery, Total Arterial Re vascularisation
  • CABG + MV Repair / Replacement
  • CABG + AVR
  • Bentall Procedure
  • Double Vave Replacements
  • Grown up Congenital Heart Surgery
  • Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery
  • Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
  • Thoracic Surgery: Lobectomy
  • Pneumonectomy
  • DECORTICATION Etc.,
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