Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon ·
Fortis Hospital, Mulund , Mumbai, India
8 Years of experience ·
Languages Spoken: Hindi , English
Specialises in:
Dr. Dhananjay is a pediatric cardiology Consultant at Fortis Hospital, Mulund. He has more than 10 years of clinical experience in Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery. He completed his MBBS in 2003 from King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai. Later on, in 2007, he completed his MS in General Surgery from the esteemed AIIMS. From the same institute in 2010, he completed his M. Ch in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Dhananjay was a clinical fellow in Congenital Cardiac Surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Dhananjay completed a 2-year fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic, the USA in Adult cardiac surgery. He is highly expert in using modern technology in cardiac surgery and extensively trained in performing Minimally Invasive Surgeries and Heart failure surgeries such as heart transplant and LVAD insertion. His services include Bicuspid Aortic Valve (BAV), Balloon Angioplasty, Cardiac Ablation, Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Surgery, and Cardiac Arrhythmias. He is also an expert in managing the surgeries related to congenital heart disease. He is also associated with the Project NABADAT, an initiative of Dubai health Authority through which they sponsor pediatric cardiac surgeries.
There are different kinds of cardio thoracic vascular conditions in children that Dr. Dhananjay Malankar treats and we have listed some of them here for your perusal.
Pediatric cardio thoracic vascular issues are mostly congenital in nature, in majority of the cases children are born with these issues. When you realise that your child has a CTV condition you check with your primary care pediatrician who will refer you to pediatric CTVS surgeon with whom they work closely with. We bring to you the reasons because of which pediatric CTV ailments are caused:
There are many signs and symptoms of congenital CTV disease in children such as:
If even less exertion wears out your child and they are getting fatigued quickly then they definitely have a CTV condition. There are other signs and symptoms such as heart palpitations and chest pain that signal a CTV condition. As the connection between the symptoms and the CTV condition become clearer kindly make sure that you get in touch with the surgeon quickly.
The doctor operates from 10 am to 4 pm on weekdays and from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday and Sunday. The surgeries thus performed are done with a lot of skill and care ensuring efficiency of results.
Please find here some of the various popular procedures that Pediatric CTVS entails:
The pediatric CTVS procedures are extremely critical and crucial for and require a high degree of precision. The best practices in pediatric CTVS should be applied with a focus on patient centric approach. Good multidisciplinary care is the need of the hour post pediatric CTVS for a smooth rehabilitation process to everyday life.
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A doctor who is responsible for diagnosing and treating Cardiothoracic Vascular conditions in children is a pediatric CTVS surgeon. The techniques being used by the doctors performing procedures in this specialty are now increasingly refined over the last few years despite its recent origins. The criticality of the pediatric CTVS procedures have led to the fast development in the technologies and techniques in this field. The pediatric CTVS have an excellent working relationship with different healthcare personnel and doctors from various other specialties such as pediatricians, cardiologists, oncologists and anaesthesiologists.
The many tests that are important before and during consultation for pediatric CTVS are as follows:
The whole process of pediatric CTVS procedures is more streamlined with minimum risk and maximum success rate if tests are simultaneously done before and during the consultation. The decisions being taken by the doctor in relation to the procedure are also dependent on the tests and this links them intricately to the treatment and its outcomes.e. The patients’ liaison with the pediatric CTVS has to involve the medical history, the physical exam and diagnostic tests.
The treatment from pediatric CTVS becomes essential if the health conditions are related to organs in thoracic cavity in the child. Please do not let the health condition linger in your child and seek treatment immediately or the situation could worsen. The treatment plan designed by the pediatric CTVS for each child is customised owing to the differences in the health condition and other parameters for each patient. Extensive research based upgradations have happened in this field of surgery which has given impetus to the various life enabling procedures which it entails.
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