Dr. Amit Kumar Chaurasia

Designation: Chief Cath Lab & TAVI (Unit I)

Specialty : Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, TAVI / TAVR & Structural Heart Diseases

Languages Spoken : English, Hindi

Profile:

Brief Profile:

Dr. Amit Kumar Chaurasia is an Alumni of three of the best Institutes in India. He graduated from JIPMER (Pondicherry), did his MD in Internal Medicine from AIIMS (New Delhi), and DM (Cardiology) from SCTIMST (Trivandrum). Subsequently, he did his Fellowship in Complex coronary and Structural Heart Disease from GOKI, Budapest (Hungary), where he worked for about three years.

Dr. Chaurasia is a dedicated interventional cardiologist with vast experience in Adult, Paediatric, and Peripheral interventions. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his work in the field of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation/Replacement (TAVI/TAVR). He is one of the first proctors for TAVI in India. He has to his credit one of the highest numbers of TAVI/TAVR procedures in India (more than 1000). He has also performed Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement (TPVR) in the smallest conduit in India. He also performs Transcatheter mitral Valve Replacements (TMVR) and has a special interest in BMV and Mitra-clip as well. He also has more than 50 left atrial appendage closures to his credit. He has been course director, course co-director, and faculty for many national and international conferences and has helped train many doctors in these procedures in India and Abroad.

Apart from TAVI, he is an expert in complex coronary interventions like Left main intervention, chronic total occlusion (CTO), and other complex procedures and regularly conducts workshops at various places. He has performed more than 10,000 cardiac procedures to date. He also performs ASD, VSD, PDA, pulmonary AV fistula device closures. He has a special interest in performing carotid and aortoiliac interventions, including intervention for aortic aneurysm and dissections (TEVAR and EVAR). He also has a good experience in advanced catheter based treatment of hypertension (Renal artery denervation).

Qualifications:

• MBBS (JIPMER, Pondicherry)
• MD, Internal Medicine (AIIMS, New Delhi)
• DM, Cardiology (SCTIMST, Trivandrum)
• Fellowship in Complex coronary and Structural Heart Disease (Europe)
• Fellow of European Society of Cardiology
• Fellow of Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology

Work Experience:

• Director TAVI/TAVR and Structural Heart Disease and senior consultant cardiology, Proctor and Consultant for Medtronic CoreValve and Evolut R TAVI, Proctor and Consultant for Medtronic TEVAR/EVAR system – EHCC, Jaipur, India
• Director TAVI/TAVR and Structural Heart Disease and senior consultant cardiology,Proctor and Consultant for Medtronic CoreValve and Evolut R TAVI, Proctor and Consultant for Medtronic TEVAR/EVAR system – Artemis Hospitals, Gurugram
• Consultant Interventional Cardiology, BLK Superspeciality Hospital, Delhi
• Fellow in Complex coronary and Structural Heart Disease (Europe)
• Consultant Interventional Cardiology, Bankers Heart Institute, Surat
• Assistant Prof. Cardiology, RGSH, Delhi
• PDF, Interventional Cardiology, UNMICR, Ahmedabad
• Associate Prof. Cardiology, CMS, Bharatpur, Nepal
• Cardiology Fellowship, SCTIMST, Trivandrum
• Internal Medicine Residency, AIIMS, Delhi

Clinical Expertise:

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
• Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation (TPVR)
• Mitra Clip
• Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Therapy
• TEVAR/EVAR Complex Coronary Interventions
• Rotational Atherectomy
• Transradial Interventions
• Peripheral Interventions including Carotid and Renal
• Device Closure of Congenital Heart Defects (ASD, VSD, and PDA)
• Pacemakers, ICD’s and Cardiac
• Resynchronisation Therapy Implants
• Balloon Valvuloplasty Permanent Pacemaker Implantation

Faculty at Conferences and Presentations:

• PCI optimization workshop, Budapest, Hungary 2015 : Attended this conference as a faculty and delivered a talk on “Pitalls in FFR measurement”.
• JIM, Milan, Italy 2015 : Attended this conference and delivered a talk titled “Something is better than nothing” which emphasized on the importance of PCI in single surviving artery in a patient with cardiogenic shock.
• EUROPCR 2015, Paris, France : Attended the conference as a delegate.
• Medtronic TAVI Heart team discussion meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from Romania which included didactic as well as hands on training experience.
• Interventional Cardiology meeting 2015, Warsaw, Poland : Attended this conference as a delegate.
• Medtronic TAVI Heart team discussion meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 2016 : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic as well as hands on training experience.
• EUROPCR 2016, Paris, France : Attended this conference and presented 3 papers. Two papers were on Rotablation and another one on TAVI.
• London Valve 2016, London, UK : Attended this conference and presented a case on closure of RCA post TAVI rescued by PCI.
• EIICON Kolkata, India 2016 : Largest Interventional cardiology conference in Eastern India. Attended this conference as faculty and delivered a talk on “Step by step TAVI with selfexpandable valve”.
• TCT, Delhi, India : Attended this conference as faculty and delivered a talk on “Difficult TAVI made easy with the help of dual wire technique.
• LAAC Southeast Asia workshop, Manipal, India 2016 : Delivered three talks; How to do LAAC with Watchman device, Amulet and watchman device which one for what patient, How to avoid complication while doing LAAC.
• PCI optimization workshop, Budapest, Hungary 2016 : As faculty delivered a talk on “Pitalls in FFR measurement”
• National Interventional Council meet, Hyderabad, India 2016 : Performed a Live case of TAVI for the audience of the conference.
• Medtronic TAVI Heart team discussion meeting, Kolkata, India, 2016 : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic lectures and simulator training.
• IndiaLive, 2017 : Largest interventional cardiology in India. Attended as a faculty and delivered two talks, chaired two sessions, and organized training session on TAVI.
• Tamil Nadu Intervention Council meet, 2017 : Performed a Live case of TAVI for the audience of the conference.
• Medtronic TAVI Heart team discussion meeting, Pune, India, 2017 : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic lectures and simulator training.
• EUROPCR 2017, Paris, France 2017 : Attended the conference and presented two papers on Rotablation and one on VSD closure.
• India Valve 2017, Delhi, India : Attended this conference as Co Course Director and member of the scientific committee. Chaired sessions, presented papers in this conference.
• TAVI India, 2017 : As Co course director, chaired and presented papers.
• Indian College of Cardiology Conference (ICCCON) 2017, Bhuvneswar, India : Indian College of Cardiology annual conference, delivered two talks on TAVI.
• National Interventional Council meet, Hyderabad, India 2017 : Performed a Live case of TAVI for the audience of the conference.
• Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention Course (APVIC) India, New Delhi, 2018 : As faculty and conducted a session on TAVI. Also chaired a session on radiation protection and conducted a workshop on TAVI
• Indian College of Cardiology Conference (ICCCON), 2018 : Attended conference as faculty and delivered a talk on TAVI
• Imaging and Physiology Council of India Conference (IPCI), 2018: Attended the conference as faculty and chaired a session on OCT
• EUROPCR 2018, Paris, France: Attended the conference and contributed to the conference as a panelist. The session was titled “Access site complications during coronary interventions”.
• INDIALIVE 2018 : Attended this conference as faculty and delivered a talk on TAVI: Past, present and future”.
• National Intervention Council (NIC) conference 2018 : Attended this conference as a faculty and did a LIVE TAVI case from a hospital in Hyderabad for the audience of the conference.
• Medtronic heart team discussion meeting 2018 Kolkata : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic lectures and simulator training.
• Medtronic heart team discussion meeting 2018 Lucknow : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic lectures and simulator training.
• INDIALIVE 2019 : Attended the conference as a faculty and delivered a talk on TAVI.
• INDIA VALVE 2019 : Was Co-Course Director of the conference.
• CHIP CTO 2019 : Attended the conference as Faculty and conducted a workshop on large bore arterial access.
• Hyderabad Valves 2019 : Attended the conference as faculty and delivered two talks.
• EUROPCR 2019: Attended the conference as a faculty and conducted a session as a panelist.
• SENTIENT 2019: Was Scientific Committee member of this conference.
• Medtronic heart team discussion meeting 2019 Lucknow : Organizing host and faculty; we trained doctors from India which included didactic lectures and simulator training.
• Cardicon, Lucknow, 2019 : Attended the conference as faculty and gave a talk left atrial appendage closure.
• IndiaLive 2020 : Attended the conference a faculty and chaired two sessions
• Let’s talk TAVI 2020 (Online) : Attended online conference as faculty.
• EUROPCR 2020 (online) : Attended the conference online
• IndiaLive 2021 (online) : Attended as faculty and delivered a talk.
• EUROPCR 2021 (Online) : Attended as faculty and moderator for the Delhi Hub.
• London Valve, 2021 : Attended the conference as Faculty and moderator for the Chennai hub.
• EIICON Kolkata, India 2021 : Attended as faculty and delivered a talk.
• Let’s talk TAVI 2021 (online) : Attended as faculty.
• Nepal Heart Lung Society meet, 2021 (online) : As a faculty and delivered a talk on Left Main PCI.
• CVT India, Delhi 2021: As Co Course Director. Delivered talks as well as moderated sessions.
• Cardiac Innovation summit, 2022 : As a faculty and delivered a talks on TAVI and moderated two session.
• Cardiocon 2022, Lucknow : As a faculty delivered a talk on “Ten Commandments of TAVI”.
• MedX Conference, Bikaner, 2022 : Delivered a talk on “Endovascular management of aortic disease” and “Case based learning in Structural heart disease”.
• Association of physicians of India Conference (APICON), 2022 : Attended the conference as faculty and delivered a talk on TAVI.
• EUROPCR 2022 : Attended as a Faculty and delivered four talks
• Sentient 2022 : Attended as Co-Course Director of the conference
• CVT, India 2022 : Attended as Co-Course Director for this Conference
• IndiaValve 2022 : Attended as Co-Course Director and was part of a Live Case on TAVI

Has conducted TAVR workshop at:

• Hungary
• Budapest
• Paris
• Vietnam
• Bangkok
• Philippines
• India

Teaching & Training Experience

• DNB cardiology advanced trainee supervisor at Artemis Hospital, Gurugram, India from December 2017 to current
• DNB cardiology advanced trainee supervisor at BLK Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India from December 2017 to current
• Assistant Professor Cardiology at Rajiv Gandhi Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India from April 2013 to October 2013
• Assistant Professor Cardiology at College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur, Nepal from January 2012 to March 2013
• Lecturer in Internal Medicine at College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur, Nepal from July 2008 to December 2008

Publications

• Amit Kumar Chaurasia, S. Harikrishnan, S. Bijulal, K. M. Krishnamoorthy, S. Sivasankaran, J. A. Tharakan. Usefulness of Doppler Derived End Diastolic Flow Gradient Across the Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Selecting Coils for Ductal Occlusion. Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 Feb;33(2):290-4. doi: 10.1007/s00246-011-0118-2. Epub 2011 Oct 4. PMID:21968576 (IMPACT FACTOR 1.3)
• Laxman Dubey, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Amit Kumar Chaurasia. Clinical Profile of Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure in Bharatpur, Nepal. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2012;4(4):103-5. doi:10.5681/jcvtr.2012.025. Epub 2012 Oct 30. PMID: 24250996
• Dubey L, Chaurasia AK. Neovascularization in Atrial Myxoma. Int Cardiovasc Res J. 2012 Dec;6(4):133-4. Epub 2012 Dec 15. PMID: 24757609
• Chaurasia AK, Harikrishnan S, Ajith VK, Tharakan JM. Mitral Stenosis, LV Aneurysm, Myocardial Bridge and Myocardial Infraction: The Mystery Demystified. Int Cardiovasc Res J. 2013 Sep;7(3):104-5. Epub 2013 Sep 1. PMID: 24757632 Research Experience Publications
• Amit Kumar Chaurasia, S Harikrishnan, S Bijulal, Dinesh Choudhary, Tharakan JA. Cardiac Rhabdomyoma In Familial Tuberous Sclerosis. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2013;5(2):71-2. doi: 10.5681/jcvtr.2013.015. Epub 2013 Jun 27. PMID: 2425101
• Dinesh Choudhary, Amit Kumar Chaurasia, S Mahesh Kumar, Ajeet Arulkumar, Anees Thajudeen, Narayanan Namboodiri, G Sanjay, SP Abhilash, VK Ajitkumar, Tharakan JA. Radial left ventricular dyssynchrony by speckle tracking in apical versus non apical right ventricular pacing- evidence of dyssynchrony on medium term follow up. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res, 2016, 8(1), 20-25.
• Choudhary D, Chaurasia AK, Rohan VA, Arulkumar A, Kumar SM, Harikrishnan S, et al. Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease in Rheumatic Heart Disease and Comparison of Demographic and Coronary Artery Disease Profile with Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease. Adv Hum Biol 2016;6:76-83.
• Fontos G, Dekany G, Hegedus N, Piroth Z, Amit Kumar C, Pal M, Mandzak A, Takacs V, Varga A, Kovacs A, Szabo G, Andreka P. The first 200 transcatheter aortic valve implantations in the Gottsegen Gyorgy Institute of cardiology, Hungary. Orv Hetil. 2016 Nov;157(45):1786-1792. (Impact factor 0.291)
• Zsolt P, Tamas F, Geza F, Tibor S, Jozsef N, Sandor S, Amit K. CHAURASIA, Peter A. Five year outcome of consecutive unprotected left main percutaneous coronary interventions. Acta Cardiol 2016; 71(6): 654-662. (Impact factor 0.6)
• Gaurav Agrawal, Amit Kumar Chaurasia. Unusual case of absent right-sided atrioventricular connection with double outlet left atrium with parachute left-sided atrioventricular valve leaflets. IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (CVCR) 2 (2018) 214 – 217
• Antonio Facciorusso, Sunil Roy, Sarantis Livadas, Adwalia Fevrier-Paul, Clara Wekesa, Ismail Dogu Kilic, Amit Kumar Chaurasia, Mina Sadeq, Nicola Muscatiello. Nonselective Beta-Blockers Do Not Affect Survival in Cirrhotic Patients with Ascites. July 2018, Volume 63, Issue 7, pp 1737–1746 (Impact factor 2.819)
• Agrawal G, Chaurasia AK, Sethi KS. (2018) Unusual association between corrected transposition of great arteries and supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: a rare combination never reported before. Cardiology in the Young 28: 1059–1061. doi: 10.1017/S1047951118000677 (Impact factor : 0.94)

Papers under review

• Occlusion of anomalous circumflex coronay artery after corevalve implantation. Chaurasia Amit Kumar, Geza Fontos, Zsolt Piroth, Gyorgy Szabo, Matyas Pal, Gabor Dekany, Nikolett Hegedus, Adrienn Mandzak, Reka Fekete, Gabor Uzonyi, Peter Andreka
• Central venous oximetry in severe decompensated heart failure. Zoltan Nadhazi, Kristof Zupan, Amit Kumar Chaurasia, Csaba Sari, Andras Csepregi, Zsolt Piroth, Marton Vertesaljai, Gabor Uzonyi, Laszlo Ablonczy, Tamas Ferenci, Peter Andreka
• Risk stratification in acute myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure or cardiogenic shock. Sari Cs, Zupan K, Csepregi A, Piroth Zs, Vertesaljai M, Uzonyi G, Ablonczy L, Fontos G, Nadhazi Z, Ferenci T, Chaurasia AK, Andreka P

Chapters in books

• Amit Kumar Chaurasia. Step wise approach to TAVI. Back to Basics, a short course of cardiac interventions. 2017, 2018, 2019.
• Harikrishnan S, Chaurasia Amit Kumar. Balloon tricuspid valvotomy along PMV. Percutaneous Mitral Valvotomy, Jaypee 2012
• Rajiv Sharma, Pallavi Torka, Binit Vaidya, Deepak Khandelwal, Amit Chaurasia, Alpana Raizada. Metabolic, Endocrine, Renal and Connective tissue disorder. ICU Manual, 3rd Edition, Paras Medical Publisher 2013
• Amit Mendiratta, Prabu A., Amit Chaurasia, Fredrick L. Giesel. Acute Nutritional Emergencies. ICU Manual, 3rd Edition, Paras Medical Publisher 2013
• Amit Chaurasia, Samir S. Patil. Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary System. ICU Manual, 3rd Edition, Paras Medical Publisher 2013

Research Experience

• MD thesis : Endothelial Dysfunction in Rheumatoid arthritis. Research duration 3 years, from 07/2005 to 01/2008. This research was presented in EULAR conference Barcelona (Oral presentation) and the abstract was published in Annals of rheumatic disease 2007.
• DM thesis : Follow up of patients post balloon mitral valvotomy and assessment of factors leading to restenosis. Research duration 2 years. Oral presentation at Cardiology Society of India (CSI) conference2011 Usefulness of flat detector CT with biplane fluoroscopy for complication avoidance during radiofrequency thermal rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia (2012-2014): a prospective clinical audit at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum, India.
• DM thesis : Evaluation and follow up of patients presenting with syncope. Research Duration 2 years. Poster presentation at Cardiology Society of India (CSI) conference 2011
• Cardiac manifestations in tuberous sclerosis. Along with my colleague Dr. Shyam. Poster presentation at Cardiology Society of India (CSI) conference 2010.
• During my Interventional Cardiology fellowship, he was involved in a number of other projects like hemodynamics of aortic stenosis in patient undergoing TAVI, hemodynamics in patients with low flow gradient aortic stenosis, developing frailty score for patients undergoing TAVI, left main PCI studies etc. Some have been published while we are working on the others.
• GENESIS study, first in man evaluation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation with HYDRA valve.
• MyVal-1: A prospective, multicentric, single arm, open label study of MyVal

TM Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement System in the treatment of severe symptomatic native aortic valve stenosis.

• A prospective, open label and multicentric clinical study to evaluate safety and performance of CREDENCETM BRS Sirolimus Eluting BioResorbable Peripheral Scaffold System in subjects with de novo native peripheral artery lesions.
• A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the effects of bempedoic acid (etc-1002) on the occurrence of major cardiovascular events in patients with, or at high risk for, cardiovascular disease who are statin intolerant.

Procedures

• TAVI / TAVR
• TMPVR / TPVR
• LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE
• ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY IN HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
• RENAL ARTERY DENERVATION
• CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
• CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY
• PERMANENT PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION
• MITRAL VALVOPLASTY
• ASD DEVICE CLOSURE
• PDA DEVICE CLOSURE
• VSD DEVICE CLOSURE
• RSOV DEVICE CLOSURE
• COA STENTING
• BALLON ATRIAL SEPTOSTOMY
• PARAVALVULAR LEAK CLOSURE
• MAPCA COILING
• PDA STENTING
• RVOT PERFORATION
• EVAR
• TEVAR
• AORTO-ILIAC INTERVENTION
• FEMORAL ARTERY INTERVENTION
• SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY ANGIOPLASTY
• CAROTID ARTERY ANGIOPLASTY
• RENAL ARTERY ANGIOPLASTY
• PERICARDIOCENTESIS
• ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY INCLUDING ADULT AND PEDIATRICS