Best Cardiology Doctors in Mumbai, India

1. What This Page Covers

This page deals with cardiac treatment in Mumbai specifically: which centres do what, how the city's shape affects your planning, what it costs and how long you will be here.

For the clinical questions, including how the stent-versus-bypass decision is reached, what medication follows a stent, and the choice between mechanical and tissue valves, see cardiologists across India.

2. If Chest Pain Starts While You Are Here

Read this first, whether you came for treatment or for something else.

Call emergency services. Go to the nearest hospital with a cardiac catheterisation laboratory. Do not attempt to reach the hospital you chose if it is across the city.

In a heart attack, how quickly the blocked artery is opened decides how much heart muscle survives. Mumbai's geography makes that worse than in most cities, because crossing town is slow even in good conditions.

Before you need it:

• Identify the nearest hospital to your accommodation with round-the-clock emergency angioplasty

• Write down its name and address, in English and in Marathi or Hindi script if you can

• Keep your medical summary, medicine list and stent card on you rather than in luggage

• Agree with whoever is travelling with you who calls and who navigates

Warning signs are chest pain, pressure or heaviness lasting more than a few minutes; pain spreading to the arm, jaw, neck, back or stomach; sudden breathlessness; cold sweat or nausea with any of these; or collapse. Women, people with diabetes and older adults often present without classic chest pain.

3. Where the Cardiac Centres Are

Mumbai's cardiac programmes sit in four broad bands running north to south:

• South Mumbai, including Peddar Road, Girgaon and Breach Candy

• Central Mumbai, around Parel and Mumbai Central

• Bandra Kurla Complex and Bandra, including the city's dedicated cardiac hospital

• The western and north-western suburbs, from Andheri through Vile Parle to Mulund and Powai

The listing on this page shows which hospital each cardiologist works at. Ask about volume for your specific procedure rather than the centre's overall cardiac numbers.

4. The Geography Problem, and What the Monsoon Does to It

This is the section that matters most for planning, and it is specific to Mumbai.

The city runs along a narrow strip, so almost all traffic moves north to south on a handful of roads. Two hospitals fifteen kilometres apart on a map can be ninety minutes apart in practice.

The monsoon makes that unpredictable rather than merely slow. From June to September, waterlogging closes roads at short notice, and journeys that normally take forty minutes can take considerably longer or become impassable.

For a cardiac patient this changes three things:

• Emergency access. During heavy rain, the nearest capable hospital matters more than usual, because travel times cannot be estimated in advance.

• Follow-up appointments. Allow far more time than an app predicts, and reschedule rather than travel through a flooding event.

• Your choice of accommodation. Staying near your hospital is worth more in Mumbai than in most Indian cities.

Do not plan on the local trains. They are how the city moves and they are entirely unsuitable for someone with cardiac disease, recovering from a procedure, or carrying a wound. Budget for car transfers to every appointment.

5. Which Centre for Which Procedure

Choose by what you need rather than by name, and ask volume questions.

• For coronary stenting: annual angioplasty volume, whether intravascular imaging is used routinely, and whether emergency angioplasty runs round the clock

• For bypass surgery: annual bypass volume, whether beating-heart surgery is offered, and how many arterial grafts are typically used

• For valve surgery: annual valve volume, and whether repair is attempted before replacement

• For catheter valve replacement: annual volume specifically, since experience varies more between centres for newer procedures

• For rhythm procedures: whether there is a dedicated electrophysiology laboratory rather than shared catheterisation facilities

Ask also which centres near your accommodation run emergency angioplasty continuously, since section 2 makes that a planning question rather than a clinical one.

6. Getting a Second Opinion

Mumbai has enough comparable cardiac centres that a second view is realistic, though the geography makes it slower to arrange than in a more compact region.

Send angiogram images rather than reports, and send them to two centres if:

• The recommendation is bypass rather than stenting, or the reverse

• You have been told your disease is inoperable

• A quote differs substantially from published ranges

• Nobody has confirmed whether a cardiac surgeon reviewed your angiogram

Doing this remotely, before you travel, avoids crossing the city twice.

7. What Each Procedure Involves

These are the treatment guides for each route:

• Coronary angiography, the catheter study that shows the blockages

• Angioplasty and stenting

• Bypass surgery, and the robotic route

• Valve repair, including the mitral valve

• Valve replacement, and the catheter alternative

• Electrophysiology study and pacemaker implantation

8. Records to Send Before You Travel

• Angiogram images, not the report alone, if one has been performed

• Echocardiogram report and images

• ECG tracings, including any recorded during symptoms

• Recent blood results with kidney function

• Stress test or CT angiogram reports

• Current medicine list with doses

• Details of diabetes or kidney disease

• Where stenting or surgery has already been done, the full procedure record

A remote review before booking is worth more in Mumbai than most places, because changing hospitals after you arrive means crossing the city.

9. Published Costs

Indicative published ranges, checked August 2026, in US dollars. Not quotes.

• Angioplasty with one stent: roughly 3,000 to 7,000 depending on stent type and complexity, with other published figures starting from about 5,000 and roughly 2,000 added per additional stent

• Bypass surgery: roughly 4,400 to 8,500 across sources, several clustering at 5,500 to 7,500

• Robotic bypass: roughly 7,000 to 9,000

• Surgical valve replacement: from about 4,000, with ranges of 3,000 to 8,500

• Catheter aortic valve replacement: roughly 14,500 to 30,000, the device being the largest component

• Accommodation near the hospital: from about 18 to 50 per person per day

Two things worth noting.

The device drives the price more than the hospital does. A stent or a valve is a manufactured product with a real cost, and it is where quotes differ. Ask which device is proposed and what it costs, itemised separately.

Mumbai accommodation costs more than most Indian cities. Over a two to three week stay that difference is real, and it is worth factoring in when comparing a Mumbai quote against one from elsewhere in India.

10. Timing

Mumbai has no season that rules out cardiac treatment, but the monsoon from June to September is the planning consideration.

• October to March is the most comfortable period and the easiest for travel

• April and May are hot and humid, which affects recovery outside hospital more than it affects the procedure

• June to September brings the access problems described in section 4

If your procedure is elective and the timing is yours, avoiding the monsoon simplifies everything. If it is not elective, none of this applies.

11. Length of Stay

Published guidance gives roughly:

• Angioplasty and stenting: about two days in hospital, and one to two weeks in the country

• Bypass surgery: about a week in hospital, and two to three weeks in the city

• Valve surgery: similar to bypass, sometimes longer

Recovery after bypass continues beyond the trip, commonly six to twelve weeks before normal activity resumes.

Clearance to fly is written and conditional. Do not book a return flight around the discharge date, and allow for follow-up visits that happen before clearance, remembering that each one means a journey across the city.

12. Looking Wider

Every clinical decision described here is set out in full on the cardiology directory for India.

Children's heart conditions belong to a different specialty altogether, covered at children's heart specialists in India.

Send your reports to us on WhatsApp at wa.me/919044346292 or by email at care@gaf.healthcare and we will arrange a review. Angiogram images help more than anything else you can send.

Medical Review

Clinical review: required before publication by an interventional cardiologist or cardiac surgeon practising in Mumbai.

Medical content review: Dr. Shabnam, BDS, five years in medical content writing and review. Editorial review of medical content, not specialist clinical review.

Editorial review: Abdul Azeem, MA (Public Health specialisation).

Last reviewed: to be completed on review

Prepared with reference to published cardiology and cardiac surgery guidance.