Dr. K.V. Krishna Kumar — Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon in Hyderabad

Dr. K.V. Krishna Kumar is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 42 years of experience in cardiac surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting and redo CABG, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, aortic root replacement, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and TAVI and TAVR.

He read MBBS at Guntur Medical College under Nagarjuna University between 1978 and 1983 and completed a rotating internship at the Government General Hospital in Guntur in 1984. His MS in general surgery was at Kasturba Medical College and Wenlock Government Hospital in Mangalore from 1986 to 1988, and his MCh in cardiothoracic surgery at Osmania Medical College and Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad.

Four decades of practice since that training places him among the longest-serving cardiac surgeons on this platform, and a list that now includes transcatheter valve replacement alongside conventional bypass describes a practice that has taken on the newer procedures as they arrived.

His hospital record runs across two states and both kinds of setting. He has worked at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences and Medwin Hospital in Hyderabad, at the Mahavir Cardiovascular Centre, at the Bollineni Heart Center in Rajahmundry, and at the K.N. Hari Memorial and K.N. Memorial hospitals in Cherukupalli in Guntur district, alongside his current post at KIMS Hospitals in Secunderabad. District hospitals appearing beside tertiary cardiac centres on one record describe practice that has reached beyond the metropolitan centres.