Dr. Sandeep Attawar is globally recognized as one of India's foremost and most accomplished Cardiothoracic, Heart and Lung Transplant Surgeons with over 30 years of high-volume surgical expertise. He currently serves as Chair & Program Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad / Hyderabad.
Dr. Attawar is credited with establishing some of the largest, most successful thoracic organ transplant and artificial heart assist programs in the Asia-Pacific region. His surgical team has completed hundreds of bilateral double-lung transplants, heart transplants, heart-double lung combo transplants, and pediatric heart transplants, maintaining long-term survival benchmarks comparable to the world's best thoracic centers.
He completed his MBBS and post-graduation in General Surgery from Sheth K.M. School of Postgraduate Medicine & Research, Ahmedabad, followed by super-specialization (M.Ch) in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery from G.B. Pant Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. Dr. Attawar further completed high-level fellowships and observerships in thoracic organ transplantation and mechanical assist devices in leading cardiac institutes across the UK, USA, and Europe.
His clinical practice focuses on end-stage heart and lung failure therapies, bilateral sequential lung transplantation, orthotopic heart transplantation, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implantations (HeartMate 3), complex aortic root aneurysm repairs, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA), and complex adult and congenital re-do cardiac operations.
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