Prof Ajith Ananthakrishna Pillai
Prof Ajith Pillai (MD, DM, FIC (Germany) FRCP(Lon) FRCP(Edin) FRCP(Glasgow) FACC, FSCAI) is a very popular and leading interventional cardiologist in India with vast experience in complex structural and coronary procedures. He is well known for his brilliant procedural skills and astute academic approach to complex and high risk interventional procedures. He has phenomenally high success rate(near 100%) on his procedures involving complex anatomy including surgical turn downs with durable outcomes to patients. He has started the LAAO procedures with Lambre devices in the country. His expertise continues in complex in para valve leak closures, complex LAA anatomy and Basilica TAVR and innovative procedures like transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve repairs and complex carotid stenting.
Trained in interventional cardiology in multiple international reputed centres like CVC in Frankfurt, UCLA in Los Angeles, Emory heart in Atlanta, Karolinska in Sweden, ASAN in Seoul and Toyohashi in Japan, Prof Ajith Pillai is an accomplished teacher in the field of coronary and structural field having trained more than 100 cardiologists in the country with his skills and techniques. He has completed more than 12,000 complex cardiac interventions with high degree of success including CHIP PCI, structural and paediatric device interventions, and aortic and peripheral stenting.
He has excellent expertise and outcomes in trans catheter valve interventions like TAVR, TEER, TTVR and TMVR. Some of the procedures he would technically excel giving durable benefits to patients include Complex PCI with Impella protection, Laser angioplasty, High risk Rotablation, Shockwave lithotripsy , Coronary OCT and high definition IVUS, TAVR and TMVR, Mitra clip, High risk endovascular procedures like Fenestrated TEVAR and EVAR for surgical high risk patients with short neck thoracic and abdominal aneurysms and transections.