Dr. Venkat Rayudu Nekkanti — Senior Consultant Cardiologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Venkat Rayudu Nekkanti is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, with more than 40 years of experience.

His list is built around assessment and medical management rather than around the cath lab alone. He performs coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty and 2D echocardiography, evaluates chest pain, and provides preoperative cardiac clearance and preventive cardiology care. Medically he manages coronary artery disease, hypertension, valvular and rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

He holds an MBBS, an MD in general medicine and a DM in cardiology.

The most striking entry in his record concerns the start of his career. He received a Best Service Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh in October 1985 for successfully conducting the first-ever angioplasty in India, and the same distinction is recorded a second time in his profile as a best service award for the first coronary angioplasty in the country.

His later recognition is academic and sits with echocardiography. He received a best paper award from the Indian Academy of Echocardiography, and in 2011 a best paper presentation award from the Indian Society of Echocardiography for work on complex aortic plaques in cryptogenic stroke, a subject that connects cardiac imaging to the investigation of stroke of unknown cause.

The record therefore describes a career that began at the point angioplasty was introduced in India and has since settled into imaging, prevention and the medical side of cardiology.