Dr PavanKumar P Rasalkar

Work Experience

He has more than 12 years of medical experience wherein he has worked for more than 6 years as a Super Specialist. He worked as Associate Professor and HOD, Department Of Cardiology, KIMS Bangalore for 4 years. He is USA SCAI-approved operator in complex & high-risk interventions

Education

He completed his MBBS from MRMC, Gulbarga, Karnataka, his MD in Medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, and his DM in Cardiology from PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Honors & Awards

Publications:

• Member of the committee - INOSA guidelines 2014 and Adult Immunization program guidelines 2014
• Co-Authored Chapter on “ Step-by-Step VSD Device Closure” in “ NIC Companion Book Of Interventional Cardiology”, JAYPEE Publishers, 2016.
• A prospective Observational Study Of Radiation Trends in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Khanal S, Rasalkar PK et al, Journal of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology, 2018
• Successful Endovascular Rescue Using the Brockenbrough Needle Following Inadvertent Stent-Graft Deployment in the False Lumen: Rasalkar PK et al, Journal of Tehran Heart Center, 2022

Presentations:

• Presented a case of difficult double CTO which was tackled successfully “Sequential approach to LAD and Difficult RCA CTO using advanced CTO device” at IJCTO Mumbai June 2017
• Presented a case of catastrophic complication during TEVAR for Type B aortic dissection which was successfully bailed out “True to false lumen implantation of endovascular graft in type B Aortic dissection, rescued by puncturing the false lumen with Brockenbrough needle and implantation of another graft overlapping the first” at CSI Frankfurt June 2017.
• “BEST INTERVENTIONAL CASE OF THE YEAR” award at INDIA LIVE 2019 for presenting a case of catastrophic complication during TEVAR for Type B aortic dissection.

Area Of Expertise

• Coronary Angiography & Angioplasty including Complex Coronary Interventions (IVL/ROTA/Left Main/CTO/Bifurcation)
• Peripheral Angiography (Carotid, Renal) & Angioplasty
• Pacemaker implantation Ÿ Intra coronary imaging – IVUS, OCT Ÿ Heart Failure and related device therapy(AICD/CRT)