Doctor discovery · Cardiac Surgery
Chennai has a broader cardiac-care ecosystem, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs coronary artery bypass grafting. Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai must come only from live catalog relationships that exactly tag CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting). When that mapping is absent, the cards must remain empty: do not borrow a generic cardiac entity. An empty area is a catalog gap, not a ranking, outcome or capability statement.
Quick answer
Cardiac surgery treats selected coronary, valve, aortic and structural heart disease through open, minimally invasive or hybrid operations. Selection depends on anatomy, symptom burden, ventricular function, coronary and valve findings, operative risk and whether catheter-based treatment is appropriate.
Cardiac surgery treats selected coronary, valve, aortic and structural heart disease through open, minimally invasive or hybrid operations. Selection depends on anatomy, symptom burden, ventricular function, coronary and valve findings, operative risk and whether catheter-based treatment is appropriate.
Chennai has a broader cardiac-care ecosystem, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs coronary artery bypass grafting. Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai must come only from live catalog relationships that exactly tag CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting). When that mapping is absent, the cards must remain empty: do not borrow a generic cardiac entity. An empty area is a catalog gap, not a ranking, outcome or capability statement. 10 listed cardiac surgery specialists currently appear for Chennai, across 4 hospitals in the catalog.
A doctor appears only when the GAF catalog records the matching Cardiac Surgery specialty, location and, where selected, exact procedure relationship. Results are not ranked by outcomes or medical superiority.
This directory uses professional catalog information and exact specialty and procedure relationships. It does not constitute a medical ranking, guarantee availability or replace a case review by a qualified cardiac surgeon.
Chennai International Airport: Several hospital corridors have relatively direct airport access, but heat and humidity make an immediate airport-to-admission schedule unwise. Allow time for rest, repeat imaging and anaesthetic review. Air-conditioned indoor recovery, hydration and wound care are practical in hot weather. Flight clearance still depends on clinical stability, not a short airport transfer.
10 cardiac surgeons and 4 hospitals currently match this city and specialty filter. This directory uses professional catalog information and exact specialty and procedure relationships. It does not constitute a medical ranking, guarantee availability or replace a case review by a qualified cardiac surgeon.
Cardiac Surgery treatment costs in Chennai, India · Chennai Cardiac Surgery city guide
Specialists
10 catalog records match the current filters. Ordering is alphabetical by city and name, not a ranking.
Showing 1–10 of 10
Visiting Consultant
Dr. A. S. Hariharan is a Visiting Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 12 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery. His list is weighted toward the aorta.…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Anto Sahayaraj R is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with paediatric cardiac surgery. His list covers coronary art…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. D. Senthil Kumar is Senior Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 19+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Robotic Cardiac Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardi…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Dillip Kumar Mishra is Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 33+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Redo CAB…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Girinath M R is Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 45+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Double Valve Re…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. K R Balakrishnan is Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 34+ years experience. The cardiac list covers LVAD Implantation, Heart Transplant Surgery and…
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Consultant Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon
Dr. Madhusudhan M G is a Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 12 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery and pae…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Sridhar L F is Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 27+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Redo CABG and Do…
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Director and Senior Consultant
Dr. Srinath Vijayasekharan is Director and Senior Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 26 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with paediatric cardiac surgery. His list is…
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Senior Consultant and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeon
Dr. Vinod Kumar Manikala is a Senior Consultant and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeon at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience in cardiac surgery. His list covers coronary artery bypass graft…
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Clinical decisions
These are planning questions, not a scoring system. Technique, campus and follow-up still have to be confirmed in writing.
Treatments
Each heart operation keeps its canonical cost guide. Doctor lists only include exact procedure mappings.
CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting)
CABG creates new routes around important coronary artery narrowings using arterial or venous grafts so blood can reach heart muscle beyond the blockages. Through a sternotomy in most cases, the surgeon connects grafts beyond diseased coronary segments. The internal thoracic artery is commonly used for the LAD; radial artery and saphenous vein grafts are selected according to targets, conduit quality and patient factors.
Cardiac surgeons for CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting)CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting) treatment in India
10 mapped specialists
Heart Valve Replacement
Heart valve replacement removes or excludes a severely diseased native valve and implants a mechanical or biological prosthesis when durable repair is unsuitable. Surgical replacement usually uses cardiopulmonary bypass to excise diseased tissue and secure a sized prosthesis. Mechanical valves are durable but generally require lifelong vitamin-K-antagonist anticoagulation; tissue valves avoid lifelong valve-related VKA for many patients but can deteriorate.
Cardiac surgeons for Heart Valve ReplacementHeart Valve Replacement treatment in India
9 mapped specialists
Heart Valve Repair
Heart valve repair reshapes and supports native leaflets, annulus, chords or adjacent structures to restore competent flow without replacing the valve. On bypass, the surgeon corrects the lesion with techniques such as leaflet resection or reconstruction, chordal replacement, commissural work and an annuloplasty ring; intraoperative transoesophageal echo tests the result.
Cardiac surgeons for Heart Valve RepairHeart Valve Repair treatment in India
9 mapped specialists
Heart Transplant Surgery
Heart transplantation replaces a failing heart with a deceased-donor organ after formal multidisciplinary evaluation, legal eligibility, listing and allocation. Only after an organ is allocated under applicable rules does the team coordinate donor procurement and implant the donor heart, usually orthotopically; timing cannot be scheduled or guaranteed.
Cardiac surgeons for Heart Transplant SurgeryHeart Transplant Surgery treatment in India
5 mapped specialists
Aortic Root Replacement
Aortic root replacement removes diseased aortic root tissue beside the heart and reconstructs it with a graft while reimplanting the coronary arteries, with valve replacement or preservation as appropriate. On bypass, diseased root tissue is replaced and coronary buttons are reimplanted. A composite valve-graft conduit replaces the valve, while a valve-sparing root replacement preserves suitable native leaflets.
Cardiac surgeons for Aortic Root ReplacementAortic Root Replacement treatment in India
7 mapped specialists
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery uses smaller thoracic incisions for a specifically indicated valve, coronary or other heart operation while preserving the same clinical treatment goal. Through a mini-thoracotomy or partial sternotomy, the team performs the named operation using specialized instruments and often peripheral bypass cannulation; consent includes conversion to full sternotomy when safety or completeness requires it.
Cardiac surgeons for Minimally Invasive Cardiac SurgeryMinimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery treatment in India
9 mapped specialists
LVAD Implantation
An LVAD is a durable mechanical pump that moves blood from the left ventricle to the aorta for selected advanced heart-failure patients as a bridge to transplant, bridge to decision or destination therapy. The surgeon implants an inflow cannula in the left ventricle and an outflow graft to the aorta; the pump connects through a driveline to external controllers and batteries. The patient and caregiver must learn power, alarms, driveline care and emergencies.
Cardiac surgeons for LVAD ImplantationLVAD Implantation treatment in India
3 mapped specialists
Redo CABG
Redo CABG is repeat bypass surgery after a previous cardiac operation, performed when graft failure or progressive native coronary disease requires surgical revascularization. The team plans safe re-entry through adhesions, protects any patent grafts, selects remaining arterial or venous conduits and constructs bypasses to useful distal targets, using on-pump or selected off-pump support.
Cardiac surgeons for Redo CABGRedo CABG treatment in India
3 mapped specialists
Double Valve Replacement
Double valve replacement implants prostheses in two diseased heart-valve positions during one operation, commonly aortic and mitral, when durable repair is unsuitable. On cardiopulmonary bypass, the surgeon excises or excludes both diseased valves and implants appropriately sized mechanical, tissue or mixed prostheses, while managing interaction between valves and conduction tissue.
Cardiac surgeons for Double Valve ReplacementDouble Valve Replacement treatment in India
5 mapped specialists
Cities
City pages use live catalog counts. Empty combinations are omitted rather than published as thin URLs.
Hospitals
Counts are current doctor relationships at each campus. A hospital profile remains the canonical campus page.
Chennai · 3 listed cardiac surgeons
Cardiac Surgery hospitals in ChennaiChennai · 3 listed cardiac surgeons
Cardiac Surgery hospitals in ChennaiChennai · 3 listed cardiac surgeons
Cardiac Surgery hospitals in ChennaiChennai · 1 listed cardiac surgeon
Cardiac Surgery hospitals in ChennaiRelated conditions
These links come from the specialty guide taxonomy. They are not inferred from a doctor’s procedure list and are not a claim of individual doctor expertise.
Coronary artery disease
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Valvular heart disease
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Heart failure
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Treatment guides
Canonical long-form articles remain the authoritative resource. This directory does not rewrite them.
Costs
These are the existing GAF cost guides. They are not doctor-specific prices.
CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting)
View cost guide · $5,500–$14,000
Heart Valve Replacement
View cost guide · $7,000–$18,000
Heart Valve Repair
View cost guide · $6,500–$16,500
Heart Transplant Surgery
View cost guide · $45,000–$95,000
Aortic Root Replacement
View cost guide · $10,000–$24,000
Mitral Valve Repair
View cost guide · $7,500–$18,000
Aortic Valve Replacement
View cost guide · $7,000–$18,500
TAVR/TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement)
View cost guide · $18,000–$42,000
Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
View cost guide · $9,000–$22,000
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
View cost guide · $8,000–$20,000
Robotic Cardiac Surgery
View cost guide · $10,000–$24,000
LVAD Implantation
View cost guide · $70,000–$140,000
Redo CABG
View cost guide · $8,500–$20,000
Double Valve Replacement
View cost guide · $12,000–$28,000
Congenital Heart Surgery
View cost guide · $8,000–$28,000
Guides
The quick answer on this page is summarised from GAF Healthcare’s Cardiac Surgery treatment guide. That guide remains the canonical article for clinical context, treatment options and planning.
A cardiac surgeon evaluates the relevant diagnosis, explains suitable heart operations, coordinates treatment-specific assessment and follow-up, and discusses alternatives and material risks. The specialty guide provides clinical context without ranking individual doctors.
10 catalog records currently match this Chennai listing. Filter by city, hospital or documented procedure. “Best” is the discovery heading for that search intent, not a clinical ranking.
Listed cardiac surgeons currently appear in Delhi NCR (51), Mumbai (8), Bengaluru (6), Chennai (10), Hyderabad (17). Counts are directory facts, not quality scores.
The catalog currently maps cardiac surgeons to CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Heart Transplant Surgery, Aortic Root Replacement, Aortic Aneurysm Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Procedure pages are published only when enough exact doctor relationships exist.
Hospitals with current listings include Apollo Hospital, Chennai, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, Rela Hospital, Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai. A hospital profile remains the canonical campus page.
Use the compare tray to place two to four listed specialists side by side on experience, qualifications, hospital, city and mapped procedures. Comparison uses catalog fields only.
Use the stored India planning range as the stored national planning range. This article has no verified Chennai-only tariff; an itemized estimate follows clinical record review.
A named Cardiac surgeon should lead or review the case. Cards appear only for exact live mappings; placement is not a ranking or an experience claim.
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