Dr. Arun Kalyanasundaram is one of India’s foremost interventional cardiologists – a career built across two countries, three decades, and more than 2,500 of the most complex coronary procedures performed anywhere in the world. He specialises in Chronic Total Occlusion PCI, Complex High-Risk Interventions (CHIP), and advanced structural and peripheral vascular interventions, bringing to India a standard of care forged at the Cleveland Clinic and refined across cath labs from Seattle to Singapore.
He is the Asia-Pacific CTO Club Director for India, the physician who sets the guidelines for complex coronary intervention across South and Southeast Asia, and to whom the most difficult and failed coronary cases across the subcontinent are referred. Among the small global group of operators who have independently performed more than 1,000 CTO PCI procedures, he is one of the very few based in Asia.
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Founder, India’s First Dedicated CTO PCI Programme – Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi. Chief of Cardiology, Promed Hospital, Chennai. India Director, Asia-Pacific CTO Club. Founding Course Director, CHIP-CTO INDIA Conference. Inventor of the K14 Stingray CART technique, published 2023.
The K14 Stingray CART technique is a novel CTO PCI innovation developed and published by Dr. Arun Kalyanasundaram in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions in 2023 (PMID: 36617386). It is a modification of the standard antegrade dissection re-entry (ADR) approach that solves a previously unsolved failure mode in the Stingray re-entry step — when the wire does not adequately penetrate the Stingray port into the true lumen. Dr. Arun’s modification uses a CART manoeuvre to overcome this resistance, allowing successful re-entry in cases that would otherwise fail.
K14 stands for Kalyanasundaram – his nickname from fellowship days at the Cleveland Clinic. The technique has been adopted internationally. This is one of the clearest examples of a physician who does not merely perform complex interventions but advances the field itself.
Journal: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
Year: 2023
PMID: 36617386
Author: Kalyanasundaram, A.
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