Dr. Z S Meherwal
Director
42 years of experienceCardiac Surgeons
MBBS, MS, MCh
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla, New Delhi
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Dr. Z.S. Meharwal is an Executive Director and Head of the Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplantation, and Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) program and is a part of the founding team of Doctors at FEHI. With more than 32 years of professional experience as a Cardiac Surgeon, he has performed over 30000 surgeries, including left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and complex heart surgeries. He is a pioneer in many new cardiac surgeries in India. He achieved his MBBS, MS, and MCh from King George Medical Coll., Lucknow. He has served as professionally associated with King Coll. Hosp., London, UK, and G B Pant Hosp., Delhi. He has served as actively involved with advanced training and teaching and is the Programme Director of DNB Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Inst.. Dr. Meharwal has trained many Indian and International cardiac surgeons who are now independent cardiac surgeons at different centers. He has served as invited to national and international meetings as a faculty and has published extensively in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has received several accolades, including the President's accolade, for his contribution to the field of cardiac surgery. Dr. Meharwal has served as awarded the Citation accolade by President of India Sri APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Meeting (2002), and Saharanpur Aditya Samman by Govt of UP for contribution to the Medical Field (2005). He entered into the Limca Book of Records (2008) for performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery on a 94-year-old man who is the oldest patient to undergo CABG. He is a part of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons, the Cardiological Society of India, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, and the Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.Education
MBBS, Univ. of Lucknow, 1982 MS, (General Surgery), Univ. of Lucknow, 1985 MCh, (Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery), Univ. of Lucknow, 1987 National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS)Past Experience
Consultant, Cardiac Surgeon, King Coll. Hosp., London, UK, 1997 Consultant, G B Pant Hosp., Delhi, 1989 Consultant, King George Medical Coll., Lucknow, 1988Awards
Citation accolade by President of India Sri APJ Abdul Kalam, 2002
Associations/Membership
Delhi Medical Council
Paper Published
Modified maze procedure using saline irrigated cooled tip radiofrequency for chronic atrial fibrillation in patients with mitral valve disease three year follow up study, 2007 Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Assessment at One YearNoninvasivesive Multislice Computed Tomography and Invasive Coronary Angiography, 2007 Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Assessment at One YearNoninvasivesive Multislice Computed Tomography and Invasive Coronary Angiography, 2007 Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Resection: 15 Years professional experience, 2006 Predictors of operative mortality following primary coronary artery bypass surgery, 2006 Vascular complications of sheathless intra aortic balloon pump—Retrospective analysis of 200 patients, 2006 Coronary artery bypass grafts assessment by multislice CT angiography versus conventional coronary angiography at one year in multivessel CABG, 2006 A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Of Multivessel Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB) Versus Conventional Coronary Artery Bypass (C-CAB) Surgery: Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes At One Year, 2006 Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Assessment At One YearNoninvasivesive Multislice Computed, 2006 Comparison of Cardiac Output in OPCAB: Bolus Thermodilution Technique versus Pulse Contour Analysis, 2006 Evolution of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting more than 15 years: A Single-Institution professional experience of 14,030 Cases, 2005 Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Ultrafast 16-Slice Computed Tomography Images and CT Angiography Versus Conventional Coronary Angiography at One Year in Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, 2005 Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Ultrafast 16Slice Computed Tomography Images and CT Angiography Versus Conventional Coronary Angiography at One Year in Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, 2005 Evolution of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting more than 15 years: A Single-Institution professional experience of 14,030 Cases, 2005 A Comparative Study of Imaging Techniques in Aortic Dissection, DeBakey Type I: Intraoperative Live Three-Dimensional Epicardial Echocardiography, Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography, and Multislice Computed Tomography, 2005 A Comparative Study of Imaging Techniques in Aortic Dissection, DeBakey Type I: Intraoperative Live Three-Dimensional Epicardial Echocardiography, Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography, and Multislice Computed Tomography, 2005 Neurological Dysfunction in Elderly Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Operation, 2005 Concomitant Carotid Endarterectomy and Coronary Bypass Surgery: Outcome of On-Pump and Off-Pump Techniques, 2005 Trial finds off-pump coronary bypass surgery is safe as on-pump surgery for multivessel grafting, but may have lower graft patency at three months, 2005 Endocardial pulmonary vein isolation in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation using saline irrigated cooled tip radiofrequency (SICTRA) in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery, 2005 Mitral valve annuloplasty for mitral regurgitation in dilated cardiomyopathy with severe ventricular dysfunction, 2004 Surgical Treatment of Post Infarction Left Ventricular Aneurysms: Our professional experience with Double Breasting and Dor's Repair, 2003 Hemodynamic changes during displacement of the beating heart using epicardial stabilization for off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery, 2003 Vascular complications of intra-aortic balloon insertion in patients undergoing coronary revascularization: Analysis of 911 cases, 2002 Safety and efficacy of one stage off-pump coronary artery operation and carotid endarterectomy, 2002 Vascular complications of prolonged intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in cardiac surgical patients, 2002 Aortocoronary bypass surgery and ascending aortic dissection: Letter 2, 2001 Is off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery safe for left central coronary artery stenosis, 2000 Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Cardiogenic Shock, 1993 Endarterectomy as an adjunct to coronary artery bypass grafting, 1992
Area of Expertise
- 24-Hour Holter Monitoring
- 64-Slice CT Angiography
- Ablation Therapy
- Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
- Aneurysm Surgery: Traditional Open Surgery
- Angiography