Dr. Biswarup Purkayastha — Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Biswarup Purkayastha is Consultant for Heart and Lung Transplant and Vascular Surgery at Artemis Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 15 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery.

His list covers heart transplant surgery, lung transplant surgery and combined heart-lung transplantation, LVAD implantation, coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve repair and replacement, multiple valve surgery, aortic root replacement and minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The vascular side adds aortic aneurysm repair and endovascular aneurysm repair.

His qualifications are entirely transplant and support focused. He holds Membership of the European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery by examination, and ELSO Level 1 and 101 certification as an adult ECMO practitioner. His Greenlane Fellowship in adult cardiothoracic surgery and heart-lung transplants at Auckland was a full two-year term, and he took international training at Vienna General Hospital under the Toronto–Vienna Lung Transplant Academy Program. His initial training was at Narayana Hrudayalaya.

ECMO certification alongside a transplant fellowship is the pairing that matters here, since extracorporeal support is what bridges a patient to a donor organ and carries them through the period afterward.

His memberships follow the same line: the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the National Academy of Medical Sciences and the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons. A heart failure association membership sits on the medical rather than surgical side, which is where transplant candidates are first identified.

He practises at Artemis Hospitals in Gurugram.