Dr. G.Sengottuvelu
MBBS from Madras Medical College, Internal Medicine, DM and DNB in Cardiology
Dr. G.Sengottuvelu is a Senior Consultant & Interventional Cardiologist at Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai. He is an accomplished leader in complex PCI & stenting, and structural heart interventions including percutaneous heart valve replacement & repair (TAVI / TAVR, mitral clip etc.)
Dr. G. Sengottuvelu graduated from the prestigious Madras Medical College, followed by Internal Medicine, and then post graduation in Cardiology. He then undertook a fellowship in interventional cardiology in a prestigious institute in France with world
renowned Dr Marie Claude Morice. Dr.G.Sengottuvelu is recognized for his pioneering work in complex coronary stenting and structural heart valve interventions and has performed over 15,000 procedures in the cath lab
Areas of expertise:
Dr. G.Sengottuvelu is highly specialized in Interventional Cardiology with focus on adult coronary and structural Intervention. Structural interventions include transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI or TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR), transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), mitral clips and other interventions.
Coronary expertise includes transradial angiogram & PCI, complex coronary angioplasties and stents, transradial minimally invasive intervention, primary angioplasty in acute heart attack, bifurcation angioplasty & Stenting including Dedicated Bifurcation stents, Post bypass graft Angioplasty, Left main stenting, PTCA involving chronic total occlusions, Use of devices such as the Flextrome, distal
protection systems, drug eluting balloons (DEB), atherectomy, rotablation, optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR).