Brief Summary

Dr Vijay Agarwal is a Senior Cardiac Surgeon who qualified from SGPGI Lucknow, India, as MCH CTVS and his fellowship from Edinburgh with experience spanning over 26 years in India and abroad. Dr. Agarwal is among Lucknow, India's best cardiac and pediatric cardiac surgeons. He trained in the United Kingdom for 4 years and worked in various organisations, notably in Sathya Sai hospital Puttaparthy, Madras Medical Mission Chennai, Fortis Mulund, Mumbai and FMRI Gurgaon.

During his long career as a cardiac surgeon, he was awarded Nationally by the Chief Minister of Kerala for his outstanding contribution to heart transplants and by Govt Tajikistan's contribution to their paediatric cardiac services was awarded a high honour medal in 2017. Presently He is heading cardiac surgery department at Tender Palm Super Speciality Hospital, Lucknow, India

With over 10 thousand surgeries nationally and internationally, he has expertise in both adult, paediatric and transplant surgery with over 25 international publications in indexed journals. He has pioneered 3D printing as a supportive diagnostic tool in congenital heart surgery and published it in the British Journal of Radiology and the World Journal of Paed Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. He has significant experience and contributions in Root Translocation Operations.

Amongst CABG and Valve Repairs, his area of interest remains Aortic Root Surgery, Arterial Switch Operation Root Translocations and Ross Operation.

Dr Vijay is currently the Director and Lead Cardiac Surgeon at Tender Palm Super Specialty Hospital and leads his unit in doing routine adult and paediatric cardiac surgery cases, keyhole surgery and TAVI.

He’s committed to providing quality outcomes and affordable surgeries.

Summary Of Work Experience

• Complex and simple neonatal and paediatric Cardiac surgeries
• Heart Transplant.
• AORTIC ROOT surgery
• OPCAB and Valve Surgeries.

DETAILED EXPERIENCE

Dr. Vijay has performed Paediatric Operations like Arterial switch ,atrial switch ,Fontan Operation ,TOF and TAPVC are being routinely performed apart from occasional Ross operation and Nikaidohbex root translocations, Bentall operations and operating on dissections. Emergencies like post MI VSD has also been performed successfully.

Fortis Hospital Mumbai and Gurgaon-2012-2019

Dr. Vijay performed over 4,000 paediatric cases independently. Routinely, he performs the following operations and procedures: repair of ASD, VSD, TOF, TAPVC, arterial and atrial switch, Fontan, Rastelli, double switch, Ross operation, Nikaidoh Bex, double root translocation, Norwood operations, HEART TRANSPLANT. On average, about 300 operations have been done annually in the last seven years.

He has operated many cases abroad as part of charity camps. Some important contributions have been made in the field of 3D printing, root transfers and paediatric heart transplants.

For a few years (2015-2016), he has been sharing data with the European Society and Boston Children Hospital for audit to improve clinical outcomes.

The Madras Medical Mission-2009-2012

Independent cases: ASD, VSD, Tetralogy of Fallot, TOF with absent pulmonary valve, AV canal repair, single ventricle repair (BD Glenn and extracardiac Fontan), redo surgeries, homograft repairs, TAPVC, cortriatriatum, ALCAPA and surgery for Ebsteins anomaly, truncus arteriosus repair, Senning repair, arterial switches, Ross operation etc. I have a large experience with repair of TAPVC using the superior approach (Tuckers) and also of repairing sinus venosus ASD using the Wardens technique.

Consultant-2007-2009- Operated both adult and paediatric cases independently and also supervised training of MCh trainees. The case range included:

Coronary Surgery, mostly on beating heart and on pump.

Valve Surgery, mitral valve replacement and aortic valve replacements, mitral valve repair, aortic root enlargement for small aortic annulus.

Combined procedures such as CABG and mitral valve replacement and aortic valve replacement and aortic root replacement, Bentall procedure, Yacoub repair for VSD and AR.

PUBLICATIONS

Double Root Translocation:Early experience on translocated aortic and Pulmonary root.VijayAgarwal.Vaidyanathanswaminathan.World Journal of paediatric Cardiothoracic surgery – In press.

  1)Double- root Translocation and the Half –Turned Truncal switch.

Review Article.

Vijay Agarwal,Vaidyanathan Swaminathan. IJTCVS.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-020-00968-3.

2)  Aortic root translocation :the Bex-Nikaidoh procedure.

Vijay Agarwal ,Vaidyanathanswaminathan.IJTCVS.doi 10.1007/s12055-020-00956-7

3). Options for coronary translocation and other considerations in aortic root translocations (Bex-Nikaidoh Procedure).VijayAgarwal,S.swaminathan,Nelson Alphonso.

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology- Accepted for Publications – Annals of Pediatric Cardiology. 2019.

4). The Prevalence, clinical profile and Surgical Outcomes of Children presenting with vascular ring and pulmonary sling. Chinawa JM, Agarwal V, Garekar, Gaikwad and Trivedi.  Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiology - Published - 05 November, 2018.

5) Pediatric cardiac transplant in India. Journal of pediatric critical care. Vol 5 No 3 May-June 2018.

6) Does wardens procedure reduce sinus node dysfunction after surgery for PAPVC? Interactive cardiovascular thoracic surgery 2012 June

7) Superior repair: a useful approach for some anatomic variants of TAPVC. African journal of pediatric surgery april-june 2013:10(2):131-4

8) MRA based 3D printed heart model-an effective tool in the presurgical planning of double outlet right ventricle.

British Journal of Radiology Feb 2016.

9) Clinical application and multidisciplinary printing in double outlet right ventricle with remote VSD. World journal of paediatric and congenital Heart surgery. May 2016.7(3):344-50

10) Recombinant- activated factorVII in the paediatric cardiac surgery: single unit experience September-December 2012/vol9/issue3 African journal of paediatric surgery

11) Experience with the superior approach for repair of supracardiac TAPVC. IJTCVS March 2016, vol 32, issue1 pp 12-16

12) Impact of Wardens Procedure on the sinus Rhythm: Our experience. Vijay Agarwal, et al.Heart lung circulation 2011:1-4.

13). Sternal wound infection following open heart surgery: appraisal of incidence, risk factors, changing bacteriologic pattern and treatment outcome. Kelechi E. Okonta& Mohanraj Anbarasu Vijay Agarwal 

Valikapathalil M. Kurian &Sethuratnam Rajan

Revised: 25 December 2010 / Accepted: 1 January 2011

 # Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons 2011.

14). Surgical approach to Blalock shunt. Does the approach matter? Heart Lung circulation. July 2010.Arjamand Shauq, Vijay Agarwal et al.

15). Window Ductus-Rare entity done under circulatory arrest. Vijay Agarwal, Muslim Mustaev-Annals of paediatric cardiology.2010.

16). Factor predicting the progress of Mitral valve disease in surgically operated Ostium primum defects in adults. Vijay Agarwal, Suneil Agarwal and Voleti Chaudary.Journal of Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.2009

17). Giant ascending aortic aneurysm-a Review and a case report.

 Vijay Agarwal, Jay Jaykumar, EniOfo, Shyam Kolvekar

 Heart Lung Circulation-Oct 2007, Vol 16, Issue 5, Pages-385-388.

18). Cardiac Diverticulum-report of a case and review of literature.

ArjamandShauq, Vijay Agarwal, Cinzia Crawley, Gordan Gladman,         

 Marco Pozzi. Heart, Lung and Circulation. Aug 2006.

19).  Recurrent Coarctation in a Patient with Alagille Syndrome

 Vijay Agarwal, Ian Ramnarine, Antonio F. Corno, Marco Pozzi.

 (ICTVS)European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dec 2005.

20). Primary Cardiac Tumour-Surgical experience and follow up,

Indian Heart Journal, 2003.55; 632-636.

Vijay Agarwal, S.K Agarwal, Shalini Kapoor, A.K Srivastava

21). Esophagopleural fistula following spontaneous rupture of Traction Diverticulum-A rare presentation.

Asian annals of cardiovascular surgery, Vol-11, Dec 2003.

Vijay Agarwal, Sushil Singh, Mohd Salman Siddiq, Shekhar Tandon

22). Minimally invasive technique of harvesting saphenous vein using conventional instruments. How to do it.

Asian annals of cardiovascular surgery.vol-9, No 3, September 2001.

Vijay Agarwal, Nirmal Gupta, S.K Agarwal, A.K Srivastava.

AWARDS

Class Assistant prize for Best student in Surgery – 1991 - Calcutta University.

Shanks Silver Medal in Clinical Pathophysiology – 1991 - Calcutta University.

Diploma in German (basic 1 yr plus 2 years) - Goethe Institute - Munich.-Kolkata.

2016-Facilitated by CM Kerala during National Heart Transplant conference 2016

Contribution to Paediatric Heart Transplant.

Community Education and Awareness-

Congenital heart operations “Dr Vijay Agarwal Video Project” on You Tube for professionals and parents.

International fellowship programme of 1 year to teach and train foreign candidates (postgraduate cardiac surgeons in training) from developing countries from Africa and Asia and India.

Workshops/ Presentations:

Double Root transfer-My experience-Chennai National conference –IACTS FEB 2019.

ACLS-1^st and 2^nd Nov 2018

Master class-Heart Failure and mechanical circulatory support. 16 th and 17^th June 2018-Narayana Hrudalaya Bangalore.

CME-CCTGA /TGA VSD PS/HLHS-Dedicated two day CME on 28^th and 29^th JULY-JP Hospital Noida.

Indian Association of Cardiac Surgery Annual conference Feb 2011.-Chaired Session on congenital section.

Aortic valve symposium-MIOT hospitals- Jan 2011.

16th World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, Ottawa, Canada.

Clinico-morphological correlations-Course on paediatric cardiac conditions-Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children.16-17^th Jan 2006.London.

Observership-Prof Chavaud -Hospital de Georges pompideu-Paris-1-7 Dec 2005.

Carpentiers Le Club Mitrale Workshop on Mitral Valve repair-Nov 28-30th 2005, Paris.

Hands on Cardiac Morphology-11^th, 12th and 13^th July 2005.

Imperial College London/National Heart and Lung Institute/Royal Brompton Hospital. London.

New Concepts of Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology. May 28^th 2005

Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital-UK.

AATS-San Francisco April 10-13, 2005.

Mitral valve repair workshop-18^th December 2004

Cardiothoracic Centre, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool (RCS-England).

Heart Lab-Zurich (approved by EACTS) - 21^st -24^th October 2004-Zurich.

Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons 47^th National Congress – Calcutta - 2001

Primary Cardiac tumours  - 10 years SGPGI experience - Poster Presentation.

Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons 48^th National Congress – Chennai –2002

1) Risks and outcome of mitral valve replacement in patients with Severe PAH.

2) Risks and outcome of CABG Patients with poor LV function and moderate PAH.

Clinical Charity Work

Associated with “Nabadat”-Bin Rashid al Makhtoum Charity organization- UAE-Dubai

Have conducted charity paediatric Cardiac surgeries as a lead surgeon in

1) Sudan -10/12/2016 to 20/12/2016-operated 32 cases during the camp.

2) Tajikstan-27/10/2017/4/11/2017-operated 35 cases during the camp on poor children.

3) UAE-Dubai -17/03/2017 to 22/03/2017 along with Dr zuhair al halees-operated 8 cases.

 4) India Mumbai-July 2018- operated and supervised over 70 operations in one week of both open heart and closed heart cases.

5) Egypt-17/9/2018-25/9/2018.-operated 35 cases in a week.

6) Tajikstan 2019 and AUG 2021.

Operations done abroad On behalf of Fortis Hospital-Between 2015-2017

In Iraq –Operated twice in Karbala, and once in Erbil Kurdistan .On each occasion operated roughly 10 cases.

Special Interest-

1) Neonatal surgeries- esp the Arterial switch operation.

2) Development of first 3D heart model in India to plan surgery better and as better tool of understanding complex congenital anatomy of heart.

3) Paediatric Heart transplant-performed the first paediatric cardiac   transplant in the state of Maharashtra.

4) Root Translocation operation for TGA VSD PS.

Non Clinical–Co author of best seller in 2019-2020-Bloomsbury publishers.   “Dear People,With Love and Care.Your Doctors”

A book on real life positive stories of doctor patient relationship .Contributed two chapters.