Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan

Brief Profile:

Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan is a Cardiac Surgeon in Delhi with more than 20 years of working experience in high volume cardiothoracic centers in India and Australia. He has been associated with nearly 30,000 open heart procedures and independently performed about 12,000 complex open-heart procedures. He is also a Director at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla Road, New Delhi, India.

MBBS- Gauhati Medical College, Assam
MS( General surgery)- Assam Medical College, Assam
MCh( CTVS)- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum

Speciality Training:

Fellowship In Minimal 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

Surgical Experience:

Years of Experience: 20 years
Total number of cardiac operations performed: About 12000
Total number of cardiac operations handled: About 35000

Previous Positions

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

Areas of Interest and Expertise:

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 Tumour operations
Surgery for Heart failure
Thoracic operations
All types of vascular operations
Low-cost innovations for cardiac operations
Development of Innovative artificial heart

Memberships:

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

Research Publications:

Bhuyan RR, Theodore S, Shymkrishnan KG, Koshy T, Neelakandhan KS, Right pulmonary artery compression by Tran’s esophageal echocardiography probe IJTCVS-2005.
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.
Sinha P, Misra S, Unmikrishnan M, Bhuyan RR. Horse Shoe lung secondary to the hypoplastic left lung for Pneumonectomy, JTCVA, 2007:21:250-252
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.
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
Bhuyan RR, Rajendran S, Unnikrishnan M, JayakumarK, Successful Repair of Aorto bronchial fistula using circulatory arrest, ANZ J Surg,2007, 77 (5):398-9
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
BhuyanRR, Chaudhuri K, Crouch G, Edwards J, Worthington M, Stuklis RG: Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Procedures – The Current State: Minim Invasive Surg 2013; 2013:679276
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

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Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre: Monday to Saturday -1pm to 3 PM (with prior booking only)

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