Dr. Arvind Dambalkar — Senior Consultant & Head (Unit II) of Interventional Cardiology in Delhi NCR

Dr. Arvind Dambalkar is Senior Consultant and Head of Unit II in Interventional Cardiology at Sarvodaya Hospital, Faridabad, in the Delhi NCR, with more than 17 years of experience. His profile records cardiology alongside endovascular vascular procedures.

His range is unusually wide for one operator. Coronary work covers angiography and angioplasty with stenting; structural work covers TAVI or TAVR and the MitraClip procedure; device work covers pacemaker and ICD implantation; and electrophysiology covers VT, AF and SVT ablation. He also manages cardiomyopathy and valvular heart disease.

He took his MD in internal medicine at PGI in Chandigarh and his DM in cardiology at AIIMS in Delhi, and holds a coronary imaging fellowship along with endovascular intervention experience. Before his present post he was at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, at Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, at Asian Hospital in Faridabad and at ESIC Faridabad. He belongs to the Cardiological Society of India and the Lipid Association of India.

His academic output is the fullest part of his record. His DM thesis examined the safety and efficacy of aspirin in rheumatic mitral stenosis with normal sinus rhythm, and his MD thesis correlated clinical, biochemical and serological markers with endoscopic and histological features in celiac disease. He has published on optical coherence tomography in acute coronary syndrome in the Korean Circulation Journal, and on oligonucleotides against undruggable cardiovascular disorders and a review of the ORBITA trial, both in J Pract Cardiovasc Sci.