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The Cardiology Department in our hospital offers world-class heart treatment with accurate diagnosis and professional treatment. We have an experienced team of cardiologists specialized in treating Interventional Cardiology, and Non-Invasive Cardiology. At our hospital, we follow a set of international standard procedures to provide treatment for Pediatric Interventional Cardiology, Invasive Cardiology, Coronary Heart disease, Peripheral Artery Disease, and Aortic Disease.

Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and cardiovascular system. The disease includes coronary artery disease, heart disease, and failure. A Cardiologist specializes in treating heart disease.

There are four types of heart diseases:
  • Coronary heart disease- a disease in the heart’s major blood vessels that is caused due to the buildup of plaque. This causes coronary arteries to narrow, limiting the blood flow to the heart. Treatments include lifestyle changes, medication, angioplasty and surgery.
    Self-care treatment includes weight loss, physical exercise, a low-fat diet, and quitting smoking. Medications are statin, anticoagulants, beta-blockers, and angina.
    Some medical procedures are angioplasty, coronary stents and bypass surgery. One such primary angioplasty procedure was performed on a 95-year-old patient by Dr Mohammed Iesa, Consultant Cardiologist at Starcare Hospital, Calicut. Even though It was challenging, our Heart Doctor and his team performed the surgery successfully.
  • Stroke- High Blood Pressure and high cholesterol are leading causes of heart disease and stroke because they damage the lining of the arteries, making them more susceptible to plaque buildup and narrowing the arteries leading to the heart and brain. Angina or heart attack stroke are either caused by blockages with blood clots, an ischemic stroke, or by rupturing of a blood vessel, and bleeding is a haemorrhagic stroke.
  • Peripheral artery disease- is due to fatty deposits and calcium buildup in the walls of arteries. So in this condition, narrowed blood vessels reduce the blood flow to the limbs. Risk factors are Aging, diabetes, and smoking. Symptoms include leg pain, especially while walking.
  • Aortic disease is usually caused by high blood pressure or sudden injury. It’s a type of heart valve disease; the valve between the left ventricle and the main artery to the body, the aorta, doesn’t work properly. A diseased aorta valve can affect the blood flow to the rest of the heart and body. This condition may be present at birth or later in life due to other health conditions. Cardiology/Heart Treatment is suggested depending on the type of disease. Some may need surgery to repair the aorta valve. Symptoms include chest pain, an irregular heartbeat, fainting, fatigue, and dizziness. If there is a sudden chest pain, get immediate medical help. At our Starcare Hospital, our doctors are available to offer emergency cardiology care to patients admitted with serious conditions.
Three main types of cardiology

Invasive Cardiology Treatment involves minimally invasive surgical procedures using needles, fluids or catheters to treat heart problems like angioplasty and stenting.

Noninvasive cardiology- It focuses on detecting and treating heart disease using external tests rather than instruments inserted into the body. Examples X rays, CT scans, MRI, ECG and stress tests etc. Our doctors recommend the mentioned diagnostic tests to examine the heart health condition.

Interventional cardiology- It’s a speciality of cardiology that uses specialised catheter-based techniques to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease, vascular disease, structural heart disease and congenital heart disease. Interventional Cardiology Doctors uses various diagnostic tools and imaging techniques to measure cardiovascular function, such as blood pressure and blood flow in major arteries throughout the body and within the heart's different chambers.

Interventional cardiologists do not perform traditional open-heart surgery. At Starcare Hospital, our Interventional Cardiology Doctors are trained to place stents in clogged arteries to allow blood to flow properly and reduce the risk of stroke or heart attack. They use the newest technology, such as cardiac catheterisation, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), mitral valve replacement, and repairs in Cardiology Treatment.

Our Cardiology Hospital in Calicut has a team of Interventional Cardiologist to treat the cardiovascular system, including the four chambers of the heart, heart valve, and coronary arteries. Pediatric Interventional Cardiology focuses primarily on congenital heart conditions, abnormalities in the heart's structure and coronary arteries present at birth.

Our Cardiologist treats a wide range of cardiac conditions like angina, angioplasty, Stent placement, aortic disease and dissection, cardiac CT angiography, cardiac imaging, cardiac ultrasound, diabetes and heart disease, Echocardiography, Gene therapy, heart failure, nuclear cardiology, Renovascular disease, and stem cell therapy for heart failure at our Heart Hospital in Calicut.

A team of Heart Doctors (Number one in Malabar) are senior Heart Specialists in Interventional cardiology treatment, highly talented and well-experienced in the Cardiology Department.

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  • Dr Achuthan
  • Dr. Ali Faizal
  • Dr. Asish Kumar M
  • Dr. Sajid Younis
  • Dr. Jayesh Bhaskaran

Dr Achuthan

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Dr. Ali Faizal

Dr. Ali Faizal

MBBD. MD, DM (Cardiology)

Sr Interventional Cardiologist

30 years experienced Senior Interventional cardiologist

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Dr. Ali Faizal

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Expertise

30 years experienced Senior Interventional cardiologist

Compassionate, capable, patient-focused interventional cardiologist offering a high level of expertise, ambition, and drive to enhance the quality of patient outcomes in Emergency/Urgent Care.

Intensive experience in dealing with ischemic heart disease, Valvular Heart Disease, Chronic Heart Failure, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, and other Coronary Interventions

Special accomplishments

Key anchor in setting up large cardiac programs in Kerala.

Completed cardiology training at Bangalore University.

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Dr. Asish Kumar M

Dr. Asish Kumar M

MBBS, MD, DM (Cardiology)

Sr Interventional Cardiologist

20 years experienced as Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

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Dr. Asish Kumar M

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Qualification

MBBS – 1989 Calicut Medical College

MD (Gen.Medicine) – 1996 Calicut Medical College

DM (Cardiology) – 2000 CMC, Vellore

Experience

Lecturer, Dept. of Cardiology, CMCH, Vellore (2000-2002). 4 Senior Consultant, MIMS, Kozhikode (Jan 2002- June 2016).

Primarily involved in setting up the department of Cardiology at MIMS. MIMS is the first NABH – accredited hospital in the country and is a state of the art multispeciality hospital, which caters to the needs of patients in North Kerala.

Has been performing independently all complex coronary and non-coronary cardiac intervention including Rotablation, IVUS, implantation of pacemakers, CRTS and AICDs for the last 15 years.

Trained in paediatric intervention and has been performing independently all paediatric intervention including closure of PDAs, septal defects, AV fistulae and valvuloplasty.

Specialised in peripheral interventions involving the carotid, subclavian, aortic, renal, iliac and infrapopliteal vessels, as well as endovascular treatment of complex aneurysms and dissections.

Training in rotational atherectomy and IVUS from Miyasaki, Japan in 2012.

Cook advanced course on endovascular treatment of aortic dissection at Guangzhou General Hospital, China 2015.

Successfully did first 4 vessel Fenestration Endovascular Procedure in Kerala.

Special interest in Complex Coronary intervention and Endovascular and peripheral intervention.

Proctor for Rotablation and IVUS for more than 10 years.

Proctor for TAVR (Myval)- Completed 25TAVR Procedures including proctoring TAVR cases across Kerala.

Proctor for Endovascular and Peripheral Intervention (Medtronic)

Achievements & Awards

6th rank in the University for Pre-Degree.

2nd rank in the University for MD General Medicine

George Cherian Medal for the best outgoing student in Cardiology.

Publications

Transjugular approach to balloon mitral valvuloplasty helps overcome impediment caused by anatomical alterations. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2002, Vol 57 (3) November: 353-62.

Extreme Left atrial enlargement causing upward displacement and compression of the right pulmonary artery.

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 1999, Vol 47 (1) May: 115-116. – Severe intravascular hemolysis after transcatheter closure of large patent ductus arteriosus using the Amplatzer duct occuluder: successful resolution by intradevice coil deployment.

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2002, Vol 55 (2) Feb: 245-249.

Percutanous recanalization and balloon Angioplasty of congenital isolated local atresia of the aortic isthmus in adults. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2001, Vol 53 (4) Aug; 535-541.

Local atresia versus congenital coarctation with acquired occlusion: More data required. Catheter Cardiovasc Intery 2002, Vol 56; 103-106.

Chronic dissection of the descending thoracic aorta treated by endovascular stent – graft placement.

Indian Heart Journal 2001, Vol 53, Nov-Dec; 792-793.

Unusual cardiac manifestation of hypereosinophilic syndrome. Post grad. Med Journal 2002, Vol 78; 490-491.

Concurrent transcatheter closure of an apical muscular ventricular septal defect and a patent ductus arteriosus in a child with severe hyperkinetic pulomonary hypertension.

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Dr. Sajid Younis

Dr. Sajid Younis

MBBD. MD, DM (Cardiology)

Sr Interventional Cardiologist

16 years experienced as Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologis

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Dr. Sajid Younis

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Experience

16 years experienced as Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Well Respected, highly motivated certified as a Cardiologist with 16 years of experience who desires to continue career adult medicine. Excellent reputation through patient care.

Dr. Sajid holds expertise in Acute Cardiac Care, Heart Failure, Coronary Intervention, Cardiac Imaging, and Cardiac Arrhythmias.

Special accomplishments

Special accomplishments

Celebrated as Courteous, pleasant & effective individuals.

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Dr. Jayesh Bhaskaran

Dr. Jayesh Bhaskaran

MBBD. MD, DNB, DM (Cardiology)

Sr Interventional Cardiologist

12 years experienced as Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

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Dr. Jayesh Bhaskaran

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Areas of interest

His area of expertise lies in Complex Coronary Intervention, Intervention for Heart Valve Disease, Transcatheter Valve Implantation, Imaging in Cath Lab, Coronary Physiology, and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. His core competency is in handling Complex Coronary Intervention for Heart Valve Disease, Transcatheter Valve Implantation Imaging in Cath Lab Coronary Physiology, and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Experience

12 years experienced as Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Special accomplishments

Certification in CTO Angioplasty training from Toyohashi Heart Centre, Japan.

Research Coordinator in cardiology under the direction of a principal investigator and experience in a rural family practice setting.

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