I am Dramthirugnanam, a Senior Interventional Cardiologist, had performed more than 90,000 complicated procedures with 100% success rate,
My Contributions to Cardiology includes:
First left main Angioplasty in totally occluded Left main vessel.
- Deccan Chronicle-
- 13 Nov 2012
- ANISHA DHIMAN
Rare heart surgery helps 56- year-old teacher who also had diabetes, hypertension and a ‘100 per cent block’
Dr A.M. Thirugnanam, the senior interventional cardiologist at Ipcard Cardiac Care Centre, has performed a rare angioplasty to save the life of a 56year-old man who would have died if not operated on within the day.
“The patient had diabetes since last four years and was also suffering from hypertension. When he came for a check-up following severe chest pain, the tests showed 100 per cent blockage in the left major blood vessel of the heart. Generally, people suffering from this condition don’t survive and if the surgery wasn’t carried out he would have died within a day,” says the doctor.
LM Coronary Artery Total Occlusion:
“The surgery is expensive and complicated, and patients often die on the operation table. Also, the number of operations done in Hyderabad for this kind of a problem is very low,” says the 45-year-old doctor who has been living in the city for the past 10 years.
The hour-long angioplasty was one of the toughest that he has performed, he confesses. “I went ahead because I wanted to save a life. The patient is a high school teacher, and I didn’t want to let him down,” he says, adding that the patient is back to teaching now.
For this life-saving angioplasty, Dr Thirugnanam was asked to present his case at the recent TCTMD, 2012 Interventional Cardiologist Conference held at Miami, Florida.
First Retrograde Carotid Angioplasty for totally occluded left common carotid artery.
This case was presented in the CRT,2020, Washington, DC conference and have been appreciated by all the World Cardiologists.
First time that type intervention have been done in the World of Cardiology.[1]
My International Paper presentation:
New Generation of Everolimus Drug Eluting stents in Chronic Renal failure
Cerebral protection Devices in TAVR procedures
Complex PCI with patient's preference approach
Use of IVUS in undetected coronary lesions
Retrograde Carotid Angioplasty at CRT2020
Submission of Interesting cases in TCTMD
Patient with Severe Gum and Nose Bleeding, Inferior Wall MI with Severe Thrombocytopenia
Grim to Glim: A LMCA Total Occlusion in NSTEMI
FFR is the Only Way to Decide When Treating in Multivessel CAD in ACS
Rescue PCI in an Extensive AMI in a 30-Year-Old Male
Unprotected LM Stenting in Rapidly Progressive of LM Disease Without the Use of IABP
Biography
Dr AM Thirugnanam, a Senior Interventional Cardiologist born in a weaver family in small village called Parikkal, Ulundurpet taluk, Kallakurichi district, in Tamil Nadu, as a fifth child in his family. His parents Mr. Muthukumarasamy and Mrs. Amaravathy.
Things that I am interested in Cardiology
Research in human lifestyle
Epidemiological burden of coronary artery disease
Awards Received
Awarded with best interventional cardiologist in Hyderabad in 2014 by Times.[2]
Most Promising Interventional Cardiologist in India by Praxis group in 2015.
Awarded as the Best Interventional Cardiologist in India on 2016
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