Treatment in Chennai (India)

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Sandeep Attawar
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • 27 years of experience
  • accreditations:
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Dr. Sandeep Attawar is famous cardiothoracic surgeon in India. Serves as the Director of the Cardiac Surgery&Thoracic Organ Transplant Program at Gleneagles Global Health City.

    Specialty

    Dr. Sandeep Attawar is a specialist in cardiothoracic surgery. He has participated in over 10,000 open and closed heart surgeries in adults and children.

    His expertise also covers heart and lung transplant with a 85-90% success rate.

    Work experience

    • Since 2017 – Director & Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Organ Transplantation & MCS Program at Global Hospital Chennai (Gleneagles Global Health City)
    • 2013-2017 – Head of the Cardiac Surgery, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart Transplant Department at Fortis Gurgaon Memorial Research Institute
    • 2012-2013 – Director of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Organ Transplantation at Global Hospitals Group in Chennai
    • 2010-2012 – Vice President and Director of Cardiac Sciences Center at Narayana Health in Jaipur
    • 2005-2010 – Chief heart surgeon and Head of the Cardiosurgical Division at Apollo Dhaka
    • 2003-2005 – Senior cardiac surgeon consultant at the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Calcutta
    • 2000-2002 – Cardiac surgeon at Cardiac AJ Hospital and Research Center in Mangalore, Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore, and Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore.

    Education

    • The Medical Faculty Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology – Degree in general medicine, specialty in general surgery, specialty in cardiothoracic surgery.

    Membership in organizations

    • The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery
    • The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
    • The Minimally Invasive Robotic Association
    • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
    • The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
    • Being Human Foundation.
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Price on request
Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Ajeya Joshi
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Cardiac Surgeon

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Price on request
Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Santosh Kumar Hakkalamani
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Orthopedic surgeon
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Doctor's visit
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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Vivek Vij
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • 24 years of experience
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Dr. Vivek Vij is a renowned Liver Transplant Surgeon with 23 years of experience, having performed more than 500 liver transplants and credited with developing living donor surgery. He has attained the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide and is the founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in the Fortis group of Hospitals.

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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Nigel Symss
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Neurosurgeon, specialist in stereotactic neurosurgery

    15 years

    • He has received numerous international fellowships in the field of neurosurgery.
    • He specialized in the transcallosal approach to colloid cysts and ventricular tumors.
    • He has conducted extensive research in the field of hydrocephalus, shunt systems and is a member of the "Committee for the Evaluation of the World Ranking of Hydrocephalus Research".
    • Successfully performed 2500 neurosurgical procedures, both cranial and spinal, in adults and children.
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Price on request
Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Anil Kumar
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Dr. Anil is an experienced renal transplant specialist with extensive experience in the field, having completed over 300 successful transplants and attending multiple professional conferences. He is well-recognized worldwide.
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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Laxman Bellamkonda
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Urologist

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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Raja Sundaram
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Experienced Surgical Oncologist with a track record of more than 15,000 successful cancer surgeries.
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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Sridhar Krishnamurthy
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Dr. Sridhar K. is an experienced Indian neurosurgeon with 33 years of professional experience, international training, and his own treatment methodics. He is the Director of Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal Disorders and a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Global Hospital. He has invented two medical methodics.
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Price on request
Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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V. Chandrasekar
  • 3.9 Good 7 reviews
  • India, Chennai, Global Hospital Chennai
  • Transplantologist

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Heart transplant
$90,000 - $96,000
Bone marrow transplantation
$22,000 - $119,050
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Mohammed Rela
  • New
  • India, Chennai, Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre
  • No.1 liver transplant specialist in the world.
    Has provided a unique liver transplant surgery for a 5-day child which made him a Guinness World Record holder.
    Has provided over 4,000 liver transplants including partial liver transplant.Specialist in Liver Transplant
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K R Balakrishnan
  • New
  • 34 years of experience
  • India, Chennai, MGM Hospital
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