Dr. Arul Gnana Shanmugam

Professional Experience & Expertise:

• 10+ years of experience in Interventional Cardiology
• Senior Consultant Cardiologist at Kauvery Hospital, Hosur (since 2019)
• Consultant Cardiologist (2018–2019) — Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad & Care Hospitals, Hyderabad
• Physician / Intensivist (2005–2015) — Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital, Chennai
  (after clearing UPSC Combined Medical Services);
  Specialist in Internal Medicine — Al Hayat International Hospital, Muscat, Oman
• Completed MBBS — PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore;
  DNB General Medicine — Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital, Chennai;
  DM Cardiology — Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
• Performed 10,000+ interventional cath procedures including coronary and peripheral angiograms,
  right heart catheterization, complex and bifurcation angioplasty, peripheral angioplasty,
  rotablation angioplasty, pericardiocentesis, percutaneous pulmonary thrombectomy,
  balloon valvuloplasty, FFR, and iFR
• Performed VA ECMO cannulation for two patients with acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock —
  first of its kind in Hosur
• Expertise in permanent pacemaker implantation, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D), ASD device closure, and intravascular imaging
  (IVUS, OCT)
• Extensive experience in transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography,
  strain imaging, dobutamine stress echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and CT coronary & peripheral angiography
• Exposure to transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR),
  and endomyocardial biopsy in post–heart transplant patients (as second operator)
• Research work on prediabetes in lean individuals, radiation exposure and safety in cath lab (published),
  and cardiac amyloidosis (published)
• Experience in heart transplant and bariatric programs
• Aiming to specialize further in structural heart disease and chronic total occlusion (CTO) interventions