Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy is a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Sakra World Hospital, Bangalore. He has been associated with Sakra World Hospital from its inception days and has been one of the people instrumental in setting up the Department of Cardiology.
Dr. Deepak has been an exceptional, outstanding student and an achiever since his graduation in MBBS at JSS Medical College, University of Mysore, where he bagged several university gold medals in almost every subject right from 1st year to final year. After completing his internship and securing a high rank in the All India MD/MS entrance examinations, he completed his MD (General Medicine) from SMS Medical College, Jaipur.
Following his post-graduation in Medicine, Dr. Deepak went on to pursue super-specialisation in Cardiology at the esteemed Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield, Bangalore. Here he had priceless exposure and training in Non-invasive and Interventional Cardiology which led to his achieving the extremely prestigious Wasir Gold Medal in Cardiology at the all India level.
His core work constitutes emergency primary angioplasty and complex angioplasties with over 4000 angioplasties performed successfully till date. Dr. Deepak also has immense experience in diagnostic cardiac cath studies, and several peripheral angioplasties and paediatric cardiac interventions. He is adept in device closure procedures for Atrial and Ventricular septal defects (ASD/VSD) and PDA. He has also implanted more than 500 Pacemakers, ICD and CRT devices.
Dr. Deepak has expertise in interventional cardiology and he also has a deep passion for preventive cardiology and evidence based management of hypertension, heart failure and lifestyle related cardiac diseases.
Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy completed his MD in General Medicine and for his DNB Cardiology training, he joined the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield, Bangalore, which is a high volume interventional cardiology centre. During his tenure he had extensive training in non-invasive and interventional cardiology under the able guidance of Dr. P.K. Dash who is a renowned cardiologist and teacher par excellence.
The Wasir National Gold Medal in Cardiology for his outstanding performance in the DNB Cardiology Examinations at the all India level, 2007.
He was the University topper in final MBBS (1998) and was awarded seven gold medals and three awards from the University of Mysore and the Pfizer medallion of merit.
Awards:
# For Securing The First Rank In Final MBBS Examination Of January 1998 For The University Of Mysore (80th Convocation)
Publications
Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy is an expert in primary angioplasty and stenting for acute myocardial infarction and elective coronary angioplasty including complex procedures. He also performs balloon mitral, aortic and pulmonary valvuloplasty, peripheral angioplasties and permanent pacemaker implantations regularly.
Dr. Deepak strongly believes in practicing evidence based management of hypertension, heart failure and acute coronary syndromes.
His expertise in cardiac interventions include:
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