Dr. Gopi Krishna Rayidi — Senior Interventional Cardiologist & Clinical Director in Hyderabad

Dr. Gopi Krishna Rayidi is Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Clinical Director at Yashoda Hospitals, Hitec City, Hyderabad, with more than 16 years of experience. His profile records cardiology together with vascular surgery.

His cath lab work covers coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty and stenting, diagnostic cardiac catheterization and TAVI or TAVR, and he implants pacemakers and ICDs. Medically he manages coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and heart failure.

His training was taken entirely in and around Hyderabad. He read MBBS at Osmania Medical College between 1998 and 2004, took his MD through NTRUHS between 2005 and 2008, and his DM in cardiology at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences between 2010 and 2013. He has since worked at NIMS, at Apollo Hospital, at Mamatha Hospital, at Hope Superspeciality Hospital and at the Somajiguda branch of Yashoda Hospitals before his current post at Hitec City.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Cardiology Society of India, the National Medical Council and the Association of Physicians of India.

His research runs alongside the clinical work. He published a case of early development of a gigantic aneurysm after placement of a drug eluting stent in the Journal of Interventional Medicine and Applied Science in 2017, and a study correlating non-invasive pulse wave indices with coronary artery disease severity in the Indian Journal of Pharmacology in 2014. He presented a poster on the origin of different SVTs at CSI India in 2011, and holds a CSI travel award for that presentation.