Hospital discovery · Cardiac Surgery
Review 4 validated Cardiac Surgery hospitals, 10 affiliated cardiac surgeons and 9 mapped heart operations in Chennai, India.
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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. This Chennai page is limited to hospitals with a listed cardiac surgeon relationship.
4 validated hospital relationships currently match Cardiac Surgery in Chennai, including Apollo Hospital, Chennai, Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, Rela Hospital. Counts require a matching hospital specialty and affiliated cardiac surgeon; they are not rankings or claims about outcomes.
9 heart operations have validated hospital and doctor relationships in Chennai, including CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Heart Transplant Surgery, Aortic Root Replacement, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, LVAD Implantation, Redo CABG. Open a procedure page for the exact hospitals and doctors connected to that procedure.
At a glance
Hospital inclusion requires a Cardiac Surgery relationship and an affiliated cardiac surgeon. Procedure pages additionally require matching hospital-procedure and doctor-procedure relationships.
Hospitals
Cards use factual campus data and validated relationship counts. Ordering is alphabetical by city and hospital name, not a ranking.
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Chennai, India
JCI Accredited
NABH AccreditedApollo Hospital, Chennai is listed for Cardiac Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 3 affiliated cardiac surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Aortic Root Replacement and 3 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH Accredited
NABL AccreditedGleneagles HealthCity Chennai is listed for Cardiac Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 1 affiliated cardiac surgeon. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Heart Transplant Surgery and 3 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedMGM Healthcare, Chennai is listed for Cardiac Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 3 affiliated cardiac surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Heart Transplant Surgery and 5 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedRela Hospital is listed for Cardiac Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 3 affiliated cardiac surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Heart Valve Replacement, Heart Valve Repair, Heart Transplant Surgery and 5 more.
This table compares recorded attributes only. It does not score or rank hospitals.
| Hospital | City | Accreditation | Beds | Established | Validated procedures | Listed doctors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Hospital, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH | 745 | 1983 | 7 | 3 |
| Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 1000 | 1999 | 7 | 1 |
| MGM Healthcare, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 400 | 2016 | 9 | 3 |
| Rela Hospital | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL · DHA | 450 | 2018 | 9 | 3 |
Procedures
Cities
Doctors
Each doctor has a matching hospital and Cardiac Surgery relationship. Procedure pages additionally require that exact doctor-procedure mapping.
Visiting Consultant
Dr. A. S. Hariharan is Visiting Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 12+ years experience. The cardiac list covers LVAD Implantation, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Su…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Anto Sahayaraj R is Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 25+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Heart Transplant Surgery, Redo CABG and Double V…
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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 Consultant Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai in Chennai, India. He has practised cardiac surgery in India for 12+ years experience. The cardiac list covers Heart T…
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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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City context
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.
Chennai has a broader cardiac-care ecosystem, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs heart valve replacement. Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai must come only from live catalog relationships that exactly tag Heart Valve Replacement. 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.
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.
Confirm the exact operating campus, named lead clinician, cardiac anaesthesia, perfusion or catheter support as applicable, ICU escalation and follow-up in writing. General accreditation does not establish procedure-specific availability or outcomes.
Send current echo, angiography or CT and all prior cardiac records before booking travel to Chennai.
Obtain written acceptance from a named Cardiac surgeon and allow for repeat assessment after arrival. 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.
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.
Obtain written acceptance from a named Cardiac surgeon and allow for repeat assessment after arrival. 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.
Treatment guides
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cost guides
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
$5,500–$14,000 indicative planning range
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$45,000–$95,000 indicative planning range
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$70,000–$140,000 indicative planning range
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$12,000–$28,000 indicative planning range
India planning ranges are not city tariffs, hospital quotations or patient-specific prices. A named hospital must confirm the written estimate.
Conditions
Conditions appear only when the controlled specialty profile or canonical procedure content records the relationship.
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate heart operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Questions
4 hospitals currently meet the validated specialty and affiliated-doctor rules shown on this page.
9 controlled heart operations currently have both hospital and doctor relationship evidence in Chennai.
10 listed cardiac surgeons are affiliated with the validated hospitals on this page.
Compare factual details such as city, accreditation, beds, established year, validated procedures and affiliated doctors. GAF does not assign an overall score or clinical ranking.
Use linked GAF cost guides as indicative India planning ranges. Technique, fractions, planning, imaging, admission and patient-specific requirements must be confirmed in a written hospital quotation.
Dr. Shabnam Choudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She contributes to the curation and development of medically informative healthcare content, helping ensure that information is structured clearly and presented in a patient-friendly manner.
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Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru
Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She provides medical review of healthcare content to help ensure that clinical information is accurate, understandable, and appropriately presented for patients and their families.
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