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10 Years of experience
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Dr. Raja Sekhar Varma is currently practicing at Aster Medcity as Senior Consultant-Interventional Cardiologist. Dr. Varma has completed his MBBS, MD in General Medicine and DM in cardiology from JIPMER. He was excellent in studies and was among the top 5 students in MBBS and secured the First rank in MD. In 2000-2001, Dr. Varma was awarded the JIPMER Scientific Society Best Paper Award. He also got N Abdoul Cader Ibrahim Memorial Prize in Neurology in the year 2000. He was the HOD & Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Sagar Hospitals-DSI, Bangalore, and was Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Moulana Hospital.
Dr. Raja Sekhar Varma is expert in performing Rotablation assisted PCI, Imaging guided PCI, Pacemakers, ICDs, CRT, left Main Angioplasty, Bifurcation lesions Radial Angioplasty, Chronic Total Occlusion, Balloon valvotomy, and Device closures of ASD, VSD, and PDA. He has almost 91% success rate of performing CTO angioplasty over the last 5 years, and such a high success rate is considered a gold standard in Japan.
Dr. Raja Sekhar Varma treats a number of conditions such as the ones listed here for you:
A healthy and long life for a person with structural heart conditions can not happen without interventional procedures. Modern technology and world class equipments help the doctor ensure that the right treatment is provided to patients with these issues. The right solution to these conditions must be followed up with the quality post procedural care as a sign of a patient focused approach.
Signs and symptoms with patients having structural or non-coronary cardiovascular diseases are as follows:
The most common symptoms seen in people with such heart conditions are chest pain and fatigue. If someone is suffering from high blood pressure for long time periods then it could be a sign of a structural issue of the heart. Further, if not treated in time structural heart conditions can start affecting the kidney and even lead to kidney dysfunction.
The operating hours of the doctor are between 10 am to 7 pm, Monday to Saturday. The skill and efficiency shown by the interventional cardiologist has been seen time and again and the patient reviews make it clear.
We bring to you the many popular interventional cardiology procedures done by Dr. Raja Sekhar Varma::
Stent placement, angioplasty and atherectomy are a long sought after solution provided by interventional cardiologists to patients having blocked arteries. Cardiac arrhythmia or when electrical impulses are functioning improperly can be treated with a procedure that inserts defibrillators and pacemakers in the heart.
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The interventional cardiologist either performs or prescribes you to get diagnostic and screening tests to find the reasons behind your prevailing heart issue. To resolve structural and cardiovascular heart conditions in a patient, the interventional cardiologists perform several procedures. The doctors are also the go to specialist in case of cardiac emergencies such as a heart attack. Any distress or discomfort which indicates a heart condition must be dealt with immediately by consulting the doctor.
Here is the list of tests required before and during consultation for an Interventional Cardiologist:
It is important to get the tests done so that the doctor can decide upon the right treatment for you. The health of blood vessels and the heart or any structural defect becomes clear post the results.
Eating well, exercising regularly and a balanced lifestyle, no smoking or drinking ensures a healthy heart. Cardiovascular issues or structural defects in your heart can be treated with interventional cardiology techniques. Non surgical catheter based procedures are applied by Interventional cardiologists to treat heart issues. In case the usual changes in your diet and lifetsyle do not help then you can visit this specialty of doctor.