Dr. Krishna S Iyer

Dr. Krishna S Iyer is is Executive Director in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery and is one of India’s most experienced pediatric cardiac surgeons, recognised for his clinical expertise and involvement with cardiac care for children in India and other developing nations.

After his medical training he joined the faculty of cardiac surgery department of AIIMS, New Delhi. He then trained in infant cardiac surgery in Australia and then established neonatal cardiac surgery at AIIMS.

Dr. Iyer began the first dedicated pediatric cardiac care program in North India at EHIRC ( now FEHI ) in 1995. Under his guidance, this pediatric cardiac program has become the benchmark for cardiac care for children in India and its South East Asian neighbours. Dr. Iyer has operated on more than 14,000 patients with congenital heart diseases from all parts of India and International patients from over 15 countries. He has performed the first successful rapid two stage arterial switch and double-switch operation in India.

He has more than hundred research publications in national and international journals and travels extensively to cities across India and abroad to deliver lectures.

He has been the Founder President of Asia-Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society, Society of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgeons and President of Pediatric Cardiac Society of India.

List Of Treatments

🔹Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers

🔹Coronary Artery Surgery

🔹Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment

🔹Cardiac OPD Procedures

🔹ECG-Treadmill Test TMT

🔹24 Hour Holter Monitoring

🔹Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)

🔹Echocardiography with Color Doppler

🔹Stress Echocardiographyn

🔹Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test

🔹Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test

🔹64 Slice CT Angiography

🔹PET Scan

🔹Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration

🔹surgery

🔹Valve Repair Replacement

🔹Atrial Fibrillation Surgery

🔹Ross Procedure

🔹Cardiac Tumour Treatment

🔹Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery

🔹Minimal access surgeries for valves

🔹ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure

🔹Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries

🔹Complex congenital heart surgeriesg

🔹TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch

🔹Single Ventricle Defects Surgery

🔹ECMO Support

🔹heart disease

🔹Device Closure- ASD VSD

🔹Balloon Septostomy

🔹Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic

🔹Pulmonary and Mitral

🔹Fetal Echocardiogram

🔹Coronary Angiogram

🔹Peripheral Angiogram

🔹PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal

🔹Coronary Angioplasty

🔹Aortic Stent Grafting

🔹EPS-Electrophysiological

🔹Radiofrequency Ablation

🔹PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber

🔹Biventricular Pacing

🔹AICD

🔹PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy

🔹Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)

🔹Angiography

🔹Aortic Valve Replacement

🔹Mitral Valve Replacement

🔹VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery

🔹Heart Double Valve Replacement

🔹PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber

🔹CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)

🔹PDA Device Closure

🔹Single Bypass and Valve Replacement

🔹Valve Replacement

🔹Congenital Heart Disorder CHD

🔹Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG

🔹Heart Implants

🔹Heart Surgery

🔹Rotational Atherectomy

🔹Redo CABG

🔹Angioplasty – 1 Stent

🔹Angioplasty – 2 Stent

🔹Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve

🔹Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve

🔹Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve

🔹Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve

🔹Aortic Valve Repair

🔹Mitral Valve Repair

🔹VP Shunting – Programmable Device

🔹AV Canal repair

🔹Bentall procedure

🔹PDA Ligation

🔹CRT – D (MRI Compatible)

🔹CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)

🔹CRT – P

🔹Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE

Special areas of interest:

🔹Paediatric Cardiologist

🔹Cardiothoracic Surgeon

🔹Complex neonatal cardiac surgery

🔹Cardiac surgery in malnourished infants and children

🔹Congenital heart disease

🔹Cost effective cardiac care