Dr Ankur Phatarpekar

Interventional Cardiologist with 14+ years of experience

Dr Ankur Phatarpekar is a well-known Interventional Cardiologist with experience of more than 14 years.

His special interest is in 3D echo card biography, Coronary Angioplasty, Device Closure of ASD, VSD & PDA, Cardiac Catheterization, Pacemaker insertion, Balloon Mitral valvotomy, Pediatric interventions, 2D echocardiography, pediatric and fetal echocardiography, dobutamine stress echo and interventional cardiac procedures like Angiography and angioplasty.

He has completed his M.B.B.S. degree from Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College and Hospital in Navi Mumbai and MD and DM Cardiology from the prestigious Seth G. S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

Performed more than 300 PCI procedures as a primary operator including 50 primary angioplasties in myocardial infarction (PAMI). Considerable experience managing chronic total occlusions and using intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS). Attended workshops on OCT in coronary arteries under Dr Guglielmo, more than 100 balloons mitral and 100 Permanent pacemakers & ICD implantations.

He is an American College of Cardiology, Cardiology Society of India, and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) associate.

He has more than 30 international publications to his name and several Interventional trials are conducted by him.

Education

M.B.B.S. from Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College And Hospital, Navi Mumbai, 2006

MD and DM Cardiology from Seth G. S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

Professional Experience

• Performed more than 300 PCI procedures as primary operator including 50 primary angioplasties in myocardial infarction (PAMI). Considerable experience managing chronic total occlusions and using intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS). Attended workshops on OCT in coronary arteries under Dr Guglielmo.
• More than 100 balloon mitral
• Performed device closures of ASD, PDA and VSD, aortic and pulmonary valve balloon procedures, and coarctoplasty.
• Performed and assisted in complex structural heart disease procedures like device closure of ruptured sinus of Valsalva. alcohol septa) ablation I n HOCM, vertical vein closure, Post Ml VSR device closures
• Experience in treating pediatric cardiology patients by intervention and also their post-surgical
• Performed more than 100 Permanent pacemakers & ICD implantations.
• Experience in managing large-scale clinical trials like the ODESSEY – OUTCOMES and the FREEDOM eV T.
• Having experience in treating a special subset of oncology patients with long-term cardiac issues due to chemotherapy and post

Research and Publication

• PhatarpekarA.On your fingertips – a new aid to learning the anatomy of the secundum atrial septa/ deject. I Indian  Heart Journal  68 (2016). pp. 366-367.
• Phatarpekar A,  Phadke  ,LanjewarC. ,  Kerkar  P.  Case  report:  Cardiac  manifestations   in l’.1ucopolysaccharoidosis Indian Heart Journal 68 (2016), pp. 196-198.
• Phatarpekar AU , Phadke M, Lanjewar  C, Kerkar  P. Is the Sac Waiting to Rupture? Sinus of Valsalva Aorta (Stamford). DOI: 10.12945/ j. aorta.2016.15.027 [In Press]
• Podhar AM, Pahwa JS, Patil DV, Phatarpekar A (2016) Single Access Transcatheter Ventricular Septa) Defect Closure through Trans radial J CardiolClin Res 4(8): 1089.
• Potdar AM, Patil DV, Pahwa JS, Phatarpekar AU. Transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus – experience with the ‘Direct duct technique’. Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research. 2016;7(3):1
• Bhargava R, Phatarpekar A, Lanjewar C, Modifiedtransjugular approach for percutaneous atrial septa! defect closure Rishi (accepted)
• Patil, G Vaggar, Pahwa J, Phatarpekar A, Sabnis G, Lanjewar C, Kerkar P. Appropriateness of elective percutaneous coronary intervention on and impact of government health insurance scheme
•  A tertiary centre experience from Western India, Indian Heart J (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10 .1016/j.ihj.2016.12.01 8.
• Joshi R., Phatarpekar A, Desai M., Currimboy Z . Neonatal diabetes mellitus due to L233F mutation in the KCNJ J 1 gene.World  J Pediatr 2011 Nov; 7(4):371-2.
• Joshi R, Phatarpekar A, .Haemophagocyticlymphohistiocyto sis: A case series from Mumbai.Ann Trop Paediatr 2011;31(2):35-40.
• Joshi , Phatarpekar A. Propionic academia presenting  as diabetic keJoacidosis Indian Paediatr 2011 Feb;48(2): 164-5.
• Joshi  R.. Phatarpekar  A. Hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia due to TRPM6 gene mutation. Sri Lanka Journal of Chi Id Health. 2012; 41(4): 205-206.
• Joshi R., Phatarpekar A. Endocrine abnormalities in children with beta–thalassemia major. Sri Lanka College of Paediatrics, Vol. 42, June; 2013:81-7.
• Prafulla Kerkar, Indian College of Physicians monogram on “Stress ECG Testing”: Exercise Stress Test in Non-Coronary Heart Disease. Chapter 8g. Eds. Dr S.B. Gupta.
• Acknowledgement in the textbook: Interventions in Structural, Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease, Second Chapter on Catheter closure of perforated d sinus of Va/sa/va. Kerkar P., Giovani J. (Editors: Horst Sievert, Shakeel Qureshi, Niel  Wilson, ZiyadHijaji).