Dr. A B Gopalamurugan — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. A B Gopalamurugan is a Senior Consultant in cardiology at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience.

His list is weighted towards structural and rhythm work. He performs TAVI or TAVR, coronary angioplasty and stenting, coronary angiography, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, cardiac ablation for arrhythmia and echocardiography, and he manages valvular heart disease, atrial fibrillation and heart failure. He holds an MBBS and an MD.

His registrations and society memberships are spread across four countries, which is unusual even in this field. He is registered with the General Medical Council in the UK, the Indian Medical Council and the Maharashtra Medical Council in Mumbai, and he belongs to the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society, the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society in the USA.

The rest of his record is a list of firsts. He has performed 14 heart treatments recorded as first-in-India and four recorded as first-in-the-world. Among them are the first TAVR in India with the Medtronic Evolut R System, the first TAVI in India for aortic regurgitation, the first transcatheter mitral valve replacement in India, the first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in India, and the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis in South India.

He also established the first dedicated TAVR programme in India, which his record notes as holding a Guinness World Record in that field.