Dr. Ritwick Bhuyan is a Director of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery at Fortis Escorts, Okhla with 27 years of working experience in high volume cardiothoracic centers in India & Australia. He has been associated with nearly 15,000 open heart procedures. Performed more than 7000 open heart surgeries independently over the same time, which includes repair of ASD, VSD, Mitral & Aortic Valve Replacement & Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (on & off pump), mitral valve repair, minimally invasive mitral & aortic valve replacement, MICS CABG, surgery for arterial fibrillation, repair of aortic aneurysms, LVAD, Implantation with HEARTMATE 2 device.
Education:
- MBBS - Guwahati Medical College , Assam
- MS (General Surgery)- Assam Medical College
- MCh (CTVS) - Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
Speciality Training:
- Senior Fellow, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery - Royal Adelaide Hospital , Australia
- Senior Fellow, Aortic Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
- Fellow in Heart transplant and artificial heart – University Hospital Of South Manchester, UK
- Senior Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
- Certified Fellow, Ventricular assist Device - Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
- Certified Fellow, TAVI – University of Lille, France
- Certified Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Bangkok Chest Institute, Thailand
Surgical Experience:
- Years of Experience: 20+ Years
- Total number of cardiac operations performed: About 12,000
- Total number of cardiac operations handled: About 30,000
Previous Positions
- Senior Registrar, Adult cardiac Surgery- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
- Senior Registrar, Cardiac Surgery- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum
- Senior Overseas Fellow, Cardiac Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
- Senior Registrar, Endoscopic Heart Surgery- Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Australia
- Senior Registrar, Minimal Access Heart Surgery- Ashford Hospital, Australia
- Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery – Max Hospital, Saket
- Fellow, Heart and Lung transplant- UHSM, Manchester, UK
- Fellow, Ventricular Assist Device, ECMO- UHSM, Manchester, UK
- Fellow, LVAD implant – Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Areas of Interest and Expertise:
- Beating heart cardiac bypass operation or off-pump CABG
- Minimally invasive or keyhole bypass operation
- Video-assisted keyhole valve repair and replacement operations
- Heart and Lung transplantation
- Ventricular Assist device (VAD ) operations
- Mitral valve repair
- Transcatheter Aortic valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Aortic aneurysms
- Endovascular repair of Aneurysms
- Complex Aortic operations
- Total arterial revascularisation
- Endoscopic Vessel harvesting procedures
- Redo cardiac operations
- Cardiac Tumor operations
- Surgery for Heart failure
- Thoracic operations
- All types of vascular operations
- Low-cost innovations for cardiac operations
- Development of Innovative artificial heart
Memberships:
- Society Of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
- International Society of heart and lung transplantation(ISHLT)
- International Society for Minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery (ISMICS)
- Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO)
- Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS)
- Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India (SMICTSI)
- Australian and NewZealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
- Indian Medical Association
Research Publications:
- Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan RR, Theodore S, Shymkrishnan KG, Koshy T, Neelakandhan KS, Right pulmonary artery compression by Tran’s esophageal echocardiography probe IJTCVS-2005.
- Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan RR, Sadiq A, Theodore S, Neelakandhan KS, Unnikrishnan M, Jayakumar K, Outcomes of surgical management of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. IJTCVS-2006; 22, 132-136.
- Sinha P, Misra S, Unnikrishnan M, Bhuyan RR. Horse Shoe lung secondary to the hypoplastic left lung for Pneumonectomy, JTCVA, 2007:21:250-252
- Theodore S, Bhuyan RR, Krishna Manohar SR, NeelaKandhan KS, Accelerated Calcific degeneration of homologous pericardium resulting in pulmonary venous obstruction following Senning procedure IJTCVS: 2006; 22:22-24.
- Rajneesh Duora, Manoranjon Mishra, Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, P Sankara Sharma, Karunakaran Jayakumar, Does transfusion of Residual cardiopulmonary bypass circuit blood increase postoperative bleeding? A prospective randomized study in patients undergoing on-pump cardiopulmonary bypass Asian Journal Of Transfusion Medicine: 2008:2: 51-55
- Bhuyan RR, Rajendran S, Unnikrishnan M, JayakumarK, Successful Repair of Aorto bronchial fistula using circulatory arrest, ANZ J Surg,2007, 77 (5):398-9
- Xu Robert, Bhuyan RR, Edwards JRM: Staged Bentall Procedure and Extra Anatomical repair of Coarctation of Aorta, ANZ J Surg, 2016; 86 (4):310-11
- Dr. Ritwick RR, Chaudhuri K, Crouch G, Edwards J, Worthington M, Stuklis RG: Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Procedures – The Current State: Minim Invasive Surg 2013; 2013:679276
- Narula J, Kumar N, Kumar S, Jaiswal S, Bhuyan RR: Left Atrial Thrombus: Is That About It; J Card Crit Care;2017 1: 45-49
OPD Locations & Timings
You Can Meet Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre: Monday to Saturday -1 PM to 3 PM (with prior booking only)
