Dr. Narasinga Rao Pantula

Work Experience (25+ Years)

• Chief Cardiothoracic Surgeon | KIMS-SUNSHINE Hospitals, Paradise, Secunderabad – June 2015 to till date
• Sr. Consultant & Chief Cardiothoracic Surgeon | Kamineni Hospitals, Hyderabad – JULY 2010 to JUN 2015
• Sr. Consultant & Chief Cardiothoracic Surgeon | Wockhard Hospitals, Hyderabad – FEB 1987 10 MAR 1992
• Sr. Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon | Care Hospitals, Hyderabad – JAN 2004 to JUN 2005
• Post Graduate Fellow | Westmead Hospitals, Australia JAN 2003 to DEC 2003
• Specialist | AL MAFRAQ Hospitals, Abudhabi, UAE – 1999 to 2001

• MBBS | Andhra Medical College, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India – 1981 to 1987
• MS (Gen. Surgery) | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India – 1989 to 1992
• Research Fellow Dept. of Cardiac Surgery | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India – JUN 1992 to DEC 1992
• M.Ch (Cardiothoracic Vascular) | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India – 1993 to 1995
• Post Graduate Fellow, Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery | Westmead Hospitals, Sydney, Australia – JAN 2003 to DEC 2003

• Adult Cardiac Surgeries
  On and Off Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery with total arterial revascularization
•  Complex Valvular Surgeries
  Repair of Mitral Valve Replacement of Mitral, Aortic and Tricuspid
• Complex aortic surgeries
  Repair of Aortic Dissections and aneurysms
  Hybrid procedures like endovascular stent replacement for aneurysms and dissections of aorta
  TAVR(Percutaneous AVR)
  ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) therapy
  REDO surgeries
  Heart Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation
• Pediatric cardiac Surgery and Adult congenital heart surgery
  ASD, VSD, TOF Repairs, Coarctation of aorta Repair, TAPVC repair, AV canal repair, Ebsteins anomaly
• Vascular Surgeries (Aorto-Bifemoral Bypass & Femoropolitial Bypass)
• LMCA (Bifurcations, Calcified Vessels, Multi-Vessel PCI)
• Peripheral Angioplasty (Cardotid, Aortic Aneurysms, Renal, SFA, Below Knee and Above Knee Angioplasty)
• Valvular & Structural Interventions

Professional affiliations/Memberships:

• Fellow of Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
• Life member of Indian Association of Pediatric Cardiac Surgeons

Summary of publications/Research:

•  Kumar AS, Rao PN, Saxena A: Results of mitral valve reconstruction in children with rheumatic heart disease. Ann Thorac  Surg. 1995; 60:1044-47.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN. Restoration of pliability to the mitral leaflets during reconstruction. The J of  Heart Valve Dis.1995;4: 251-253.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN. Mitral valve reconstruction: Intermediate term results in rheumatic mitral regurgitation. The J of  Heart Valve Dis.1994; 3:161-164.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN, Anil kumar D, Harish C, Trehan H. Pulmonary autograft aortic valve replacement- Early experience with Ross Procedure. Tex Heart Inst J.1995; 22:177-179.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN, Trehan H. A technique to prevent bleeding after Ross procedure. . The J of  Heart Valve Dis.1995;4: 405-406.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN, Sharma R, Bhan A, Airan B, Das B, Iyer KS, Trehan H, Venugopal P. Homograft aortic root replacement for early prosthetic valve endocarditis. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 1995; 3: 109-111.
• Rao PN, Kumar AS. Aortic valve replacement through right thoracotomy.  Tex Heart Inst J.1993; 307-308.
• Kumar AS, Rao PN, Saxena DK. Cosmetic approach to cardiac surgery. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 1995; 3: 20-22.
• NR Pantula, RN Suresh kumar, AK Dharmapuram, MH Mohamed, S Chandran, AK Dhir, DK Saxena, SP Azhagappan, VR Pillay, VC Gopalakrishnan, MA Fikree, YA Nazer, TB Cartmill, MR Ivatury. Coarctation of the aorta in neonates and young infants: Surgical Experience. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2002;10:310-313.
• AK Dharmapuram, NR Pantula, RN Suresh kumar, YA Nazer, MR Ivatury. Anomalous left coronary artery: Modified direct aortic implantation. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2003; 11:87-89.
• AK Dharmapuram, RN Suresh kumar, NR Pantula, MH Mohamed, S Chandran, AK Dhir, DK Saxena, SP Azhagappan, VR Pillay, VC Gopalakrishnan, MA Fikree, YA Nazer, TB Cartmill, MR Ivatury. Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection in the early infancy. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2003; 11:18-22.
• D Anil Kumar, RN Suresh Kumar, PN Rao, S Chandran, H Mahmoud, AS Pillay, DK Saxena, CG Venkitachalam, T Cartmill, IM Rao . Systemic to pulmonary arterial shunts in neonates. Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg  2003; 19:159-162.
• Lokeswara Rao Sajja,  Gopi Chand Mannam,  Narsinga Rao Pantula,  Sriramulu Sompalli,  Alluri Raja Gopala Raju,  Bhupathiraju Soma Raju. Reoperation for coronary artery disease in the young: early and mid-term results. Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2005; 21: 199–203.
• Lokeswara Rao Sajja, Gopichand Mannam,  Narasinga Rao Pantula, Sriramulu Sompalli. Role of Radial Artery Graft in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:2180-2188.
• Narasingarao Pantula, Ramesh Jayanthy, Vasani Kannan, Satish Kumar Missula. Neuroendocrine carcinoma of thymus associated with Cushing’s syndrome — A case report. Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010; 26:46-48.
• Pantula Narasinga Rao, Malladi Venkata Surya subbalaxmi. Repair of aortic dissection in a patient with advanced AIDS. Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009; 25:127-129.
• Rao PN, Mehta SN, Guleria S, Bharadwaj M, Saxena S, Khazanchi RK, Aggarwal S, Tiwari SC, Dash SC. The quality of in successful live-related renal allograft recipients in India. Natl Med J India1996; May-Jun9(3):118-9.