VIRGO HEART CENTER is an advanced cardiac care center, fully equipped with modern technology such as state-of-the-art Philips echocardiography machine incorporating AI to achieve exceptional quality images of your heart; Modern Treadmill Machine, 12 Channel ECG with interpretation, State-of-the-art Holter monitoring facilities etc.
We are a designated advanced research center for Cardio-myopathy (Diseases of the muscle of the heart) and Heart Failure.
The center head is Dr. PL. Saravanan, an eminent and highly experienced interventional cardiologist, cardiac electrophysiologist and heart transplant physician, with 24 years of experience (17 of which was in pioneer institutes in London (Royal Brompton Hospital), Oxford (John Radcliff Hospital) and Manchester (Wythenshawe Hospital) in the UK.
Dr.PL.Saravanan qualified with MBBS from Madurai Medical College in 1992 and MD in Internal Medicine from the TN MGR medical university in 1999. He was awarded Gold Medal for the best outgoing student in MD Medicine by the Association of Physicians of India.
He then went to the UK for higher training in
Cardiology and trained in 3 major cardiac centers of international repute
He had extensive training in Coronary Angioplasty and Stenting, Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology and Heart Transplant Medicine in these centers.
He then pursued a PhD program in Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology in the University of Manchester between 2006-2009. His PhD was funded by a prestigious British Heart Foundation fellowship and he was awarded the "Young Investigator of the Year" award in 2009 by the British Cardiac Society for his PhD work.
He has numerous publications in international
journals of very high repute such as The Lancet, Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC), CIRCULATION etc.
He also completed an advanced fellowship in CIED (cardiac implantable electronic devices) in the US acquiring a qualification of CCDS (Certified Cardiac Device Specialist) from the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners of USA.
He is very down to earth and a humble person who enjoys talking to his patients and explaining complex Heart disease in a very simple and easy to understand terms.
He has a passion for health promotion and prevention of heart disease and he is very keen to promote cardiac health in people of India, where there is an epidemic of heart attack and other cardiac diseases.
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