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Dr. A B Gopalamurugan

Dr. A B Gopalamurugan

Interventional Cardiologist

Senior Consultant

MBBS, MD,

Chennai, India

Works at MGM Healthcare, Chennai

15 years of experience

About Dr. A B Gopalamurugan

  • Dr. A B Gopalamurugan is a cardiologist having more than 15 years of expertise.
  • Services provided by him includes performing coronary interventions, catheter ablations for complex arrhythmias and structural interventions, etc.
  • He completed his MBBS from India.
  • He was awarded an MD degree by University of London for his research at St.Thomas’s Hospital, London funded by the British Heart Foundation.
  • He obtained formal European accreditation in Interventional Cardiology and Electrophysiology.
  • He is the founder and course director of the country’s largest course for transcatheter valve therapies.
  • Dr. A B Gopalamurugan is fluent in English, and Hindi.

Location Location

Chennai, India

Special Interest

Coronary interventions Catheter ablations Arrhythmias Structural interventions

List Of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • Cardiac OPD Procedures
  • ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
  • 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
  • Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Echocardiography with Color Doppler
  • Stress Echocardiographyn
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
  • Thallium Test - Nuclear Stress Test
  • 64 Slice CT Angiography
  • PET Scan
  • Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
  • surgery
  • Valve Repair Replacement
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
  • Ross Procedure
  • Cardiac Tumour Treatment
  • Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
  • Minimal access surgeries for valves
  • ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
  • Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
  • Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
  • TAPVC - Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
  • Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
  • ECMO Support
  • heart disease
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty - Aortic
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • Peripheral Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC - Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Mitral Valve Replacement
  • VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
  • Heart Double Valve Replacement
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Double Chamber
  • CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
  • PDA Device Closure
  • Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
  • Valve Replacement
  • Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
  • Heart Bypass - Minimally Invasive CABG
  • Heart Implants
  • Heart Surgery
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG
  • Angioplasty - 1 Stent
  • Angioplasty - 2 Stent
  • Aortic Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
  • Aortic Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
  • Aortic Valve Repair
  • Mitral Valve Repair
  • VP Shunting - Programmable Device
  • AV Canal repair
  • Bentall procedure
  • PDA Ligation
  • CRT - D (MRI Compatible)
  • CRT - D (MRI Non-Compatible)
  • CRT - P
  • Transarterial Radioembolization - TARE
  • ICD Implantation
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Balloon mitral valvotomy
  • Truncus Arterious Repair
  • Cardiac ablation
  • TAVI
  • LVAD

Work Experience of Dr. A B Gopalamurugan

Senior Consultant, MGM Healthcare, Chennai

Dr. A B Gopalamurugan's

  • MBBS
  • MD, 2006,

He is the founder and course director of the country’s largest course for transcatheter valve therapies. He has performed 3 of world’s first transcatheter valve therapies too. MRCP (Member of Royal College of Physicians): Royal College of Physicians, London, UK FRCP (Fellow of Royal College of Physicians): Royal College of Physicians, London, UK CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training): General Medical Council, London, UK FACC (Fellow of American College of Cardiology): American College of Cardiology, USA Membership/Fellowship: General Medical Council, UK British Cardiovascular Interventional Society (BCIS), UK European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), Europe Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), USA Indian Medical Council, India Maharashtra Medical Council, Mumbai

  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, “First-in-man proof of feasibility: PCI, TAVR and TEVAR of Aortic Arch with a hybrid approach through a Trans-caval (Cavo-aortic) access in the same procedure”, European Heart Journal, Volume 42, Issue 4, 21 January 2021, Page 357
  • A B Gopalamuruga et al. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Patient selection and technical considerations for the growing heart teams of India. Indian Heart Journal Interventions 2018;1:9-17
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, “India’s First Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation: Mitral valve-in-valve for dysfunctional mitral bioprosthesis”, Indian Heart Journal CVCR, 10.1016/j.ihjccr. 2017.11.005
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, “India’s first single side access EVAR device implantation: A hope for patients with poor vascular access”, Indian Heart Journal CVCR, Volume 1, Issue 2, May–September 2017, Pages 92-95
  • A B Gopalamurugan et a, “India’s First Successful ECMO Assisted TAVI: A Strategy for ‘High Risk’ TAVI patients”, Indian Heart Journal CVCR, Volume 1, Issue 1, January–April 2017, Pages 4-6
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, “India’s First Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Implantation: Valvein-Valve is a Treatment Option for Bioprosthetic Valve Dysfunction”, Indian Heart Journa CVCR, Volume 1, Issue 2, May–September 2017, Pages 61-63
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, "TAVI for Aortic Regurgitation – India’s First Case with Corevalve Evolut R”, Indian Heart Journal, doi:10.1016/j.ihj.2016.03.022
  • Ganeshababu, G., Webber, M., Providencia, R., Kumar, S., Gopalamurugan, A B et al, (2016), Ventricular Arrhythmia Burden in Patients With Heart Failure and Cardiac Resynchronization Devices: The Importance of Renal Function. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 27: 1328-1336
  • Kumar V R, Subramaniam SB, Gopalamurugan A B, Bapu K R. Endovascular pulmonary artery inflatable balloon-induced hypotension: A novel technique for clipping giant intracranial aneurysms. Neurology India 2017;65:566-9
  • L Leung, A B Gopalamurugan et al, "The use of EKOS-catheter-directed thrombolysis in the management of extensive thromboembolism”, British Journal of Cardiology, Br J Cardiol 2015;22:(3) doi:10.5837/bjc.2015.024
  • Reinthaler M, Stähli BE, Gopalamurugan A et al, “Post-procedural arterial hypertension: implications for clinical outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation”, Journal of Heart Valve Disease. 2014 Nov;23(6):675-82
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, "Is CRT Pro-arrhythmic? A Comparative Analysis of The Occurrence of Ventricular Arrhythmias Between Patients Implanted With CRTs and ICDs", Frontiers in Physiology, 2014 Sep 17;5:334, doi: 10.3389
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Aortic Valve Regurgitation after Heterotopic Heart Transplantation: Percutaneous Treatment with TAVI’, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, doi:10.1016/j.healun.2014.04.011
  • Ahsan SY, Saberwal B, Lambiase PD, Koo CY, Lee S, Gopalamurugan AB et al, A simple infection-control protocol to reduce serious cardiac device infections. Europace. 2014 Oct;16(10):1482-9. doi: 10.1093
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Percutaneous valve-in-valve implantations: importance of knowing the effective internal diameter of bioprosthetic valves’ Heart, doi:10.1136/ heartjnl-2013-304274
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Valve Implantation’, Journal of American College of Cardiology, 2013;61(7):e143-e143
  • S. Y. Ahsan; B Saberwal; P. D. Lambiase; S. Chaubey; O. R. Segal; A. B. Gopalamurugan et al, ‘An 8-year single-centre experience of cardiac resynchronisation therapy: procedural success, early and late complications, and left ventricular lead performance’, Europace 2013; doi: 10.1093
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, “An unusual left ventriculography of a patient presenting with ‘panic attacks’”, European Heart Journal, (2012) 33 (24): 3087.
  • Ahsan SY, Fittall MW, Gopalamurugan AB et al, ‘Left ventricular Pacing should be considered when Biventricular pacing worsens Heart Failure’, Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2012 Jan; 33(1): 37-41
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Bilateral endophthalmitis and ARDS complicating group G streptococcal endocarditis’ The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9502, Pages 2062-2062.
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Left ventricular non-compaction diagnosed by real time threedimensional echocardiography’, Heart, 2005; 91:1274.
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Migrating Pacemaker causing an Inframammary Abscess’, European Journal of Internal Medicine, a case report, Sept 2003, Vol 14, supplement 1, S105.
  • V S Kumar, A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘Discitis after Permanent Pacemaker Insertion’,European Journal of Internal Medicine, Sept 2003, Vol 14, supplement 1, S97.
  • A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘An elderly man with Pancytopenia’, CME Journal of Geriatric Medicine, 2003; 5(3): 122-123.
  • H Nabwera, A B Gopalamurugan et al, ‘An unusual case of hip pain’, CME Journal of Geriatric Medicine, 2002; 4(3): 125-126

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Dr. A B Gopalamurugan practices at MGM Healthcare, Chennai

Dr. A B Gopalamurugan specialty is Interventional Cardiologist

Dr. A B Gopalamurugan is Interventional Cardiologist with 15 years of experience.

More About Interventional Cardiologist

A interventional cardiologist deals with the catheter based treatment of heart diseases which includes the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, vascular disease and acquired structural heart disease.

The patient may experience extreme fatigue, Constant dizziness, fast heart rate, irregular heartbeat, Chest pain or difficulty in breathing during regular activities.

Investigations like Electrocardiogram, Chest X-rays, Echocardiogram, Cardiac Catheterization, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), CT (Computerized Tomography), and Transesophageal Echocardiogram

An interventional cardiologists perform procedures in cath lab like Balloon angioplasty, Coronary and left ventricular digital angiography, Right and left heart catheterization, Rotational artherectomy etc and evaluate arterial blockages whereas the non-interventional cardiologists do not perform the same procedures.

Interventional cardiology treats cardiovascular disease using multiple non-surgical procedures, mostly are done in the cardiovascular (veins, heart and arteries) system.

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