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Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan

Director: Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla Road, Cardiac Sciences | Adult CTVS (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery)

Dr. Ritwick Bhuyan is a Director of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery at Fortis Escorts, Okhla with 27 years of working experience in high volume cardiothoracic centers in India & Australia. He has been associated with nearly 15,000 open heart procedures. Performed more than 7000 open heart surgeries independently over the same time, which includes repair of ASD, VSD, Mitral & Aortic Valve Replacement & Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (on & off pump), mitral valve repair, minimally invasive mitral & aortic valve replacement, MICS CABG, surgery for arterial fibrillation, repair of aortic aneurysms, LVAD, Implantation with HEARTMATE 2 device.

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  • MBBS – Guwahati Medical College , Assam
  • MS (General Surgery)- Assam Medical College
  • MCh (CTVS) – Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
  • Senior Fellow, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery – Royal Adelaide Hospital , Australia
  • Senior Fellow, Aortic Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
  • Fellow in Heart transplant and artificial heart – University Hospital Of South Manchester, UK
  • Senior Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
  • Certified Fellow, Ventricular assist Device – Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
  • Certified Fellow, TAVI – University of Lille, France
  • Certified Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Bangkok Chest Institute, Thailand
  • Years of Experience: 20+ Years
  • Total number of cardiac operations performed: About 12,000
  • Total number of cardiac operations handled: About 30,000
  • Senior Registrar, Adult cardiac Surgery- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
  • Senior Registrar, Cardiac Surgery- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum
  • Senior Overseas Fellow, Cardiac Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
  • Senior Registrar, Endoscopic Heart Surgery- Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Australia
  • Senior Registrar, Minimal Access Heart Surgery- Ashford Hospital, Australia
  • Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery – Max Hospital, Saket
  • Fellow, Heart and Lung transplant- UHSM, Manchester, UK
  • Fellow, Ventricular Assist Device, ECMO- UHSM, Manchester, UK
  • Fellow, LVAD implant – Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
  • Beating heart cardiac bypass operation or off-pump CABG 
  • Minimally invasive or keyhole bypass operation
  • Video-assisted keyhole valve repair and replacement operations 
  • Heart and Lung transplantation 
  • Ventricular Assist device (VAD ) operations 
  • Mitral valve repair 
  • Transcatheter Aortic valve Implantation (TAVI)
  • Aortic aneurysms 
  • Endovascular repair of Aneurysms 
  • Complex Aortic operations 
  • Total arterial revascularisation 
  • Endoscopic Vessel harvesting procedures 
  • Redo cardiac operations 
  • Cardiac Tumor operations 
  • Surgery for Heart failure
  • Thoracic operations 
  • All types of vascular operations 
  • Low-cost innovations for cardiac operations 
  • Development of Innovative artificial heart
  • Society Of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
  • International Society of heart and lung transplantation(ISHLT)
  • International Society for Minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery (ISMICS)
  • Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO)
  • Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS)
  • Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India (SMICTSI)
  • Australian and NewZealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
  • Indian Medical Association
  1. Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan RR, Theodore S, Shymkrishnan KG, Koshy T, Neelakandhan KS, Right pulmonary artery compression by Tran’s esophageal echocardiography probe IJTCVS-2005.
  2. Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan RR, Sadiq A, Theodore S, Neelakandhan KS, Unnikrishnan M, Jayakumar K, Outcomes of surgical management of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. IJTCVS-2006; 22, 132-136.
  3. Sinha P, Misra S, Unnikrishnan M, Bhuyan RR. Horse Shoe lung secondary to the hypoplastic left lung for Pneumonectomy, JTCVA, 2007:21:250-252
  4. Theodore S, Bhuyan RR, Krishna Manohar SR, NeelaKandhan KS, Accelerated Calcific degeneration of homologous pericardium resulting in pulmonary venous obstruction following Senning procedure IJTCVS: 2006; 22:22-24.
  5. Rajneesh Duora, Manoranjon Mishra, Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, P Sankara Sharma, Karunakaran Jayakumar, Does transfusion of Residual cardiopulmonary bypass circuit blood increase postoperative bleeding? A prospective randomized study in patients undergoing on-pump cardiopulmonary bypass Asian Journal Of Transfusion Medicine: 2008:2: 51-55
  6. Bhuyan RR, Rajendran S, Unnikrishnan M, JayakumarK, Successful Repair of Aorto bronchial fistula using circulatory arrest, ANZ J Surg,2007, 77 (5):398-9
  7. Xu Robert, Bhuyan RR, Edwards JRM: Staged Bentall Procedure and Extra Anatomical repair of Coarctation of Aorta, ANZ J Surg, 2016; 86 (4):310-11
  8. Dr. Ritwick  RR, Chaudhuri K, Crouch G, Edwards J, Worthington M, Stuklis RG: Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Procedures – The Current State: Minim Invasive Surg 2013; 2013:679276 
  9. Narula J, Kumar N, Kumar S, Jaiswal S, Bhuyan RR: Left Atrial Thrombus: Is That About It; J Card Crit Care;2017 1: 45-49

You Can Meet Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre: Monday to Saturday -1 PM to 3 PM (with prior booking only)