About

Dr. Rajiv C. is a well-known cardiologist with an experience of over 26 years in the field of Interventional Cardiology. He completed his MBBS from TD Medical College, Alappuzha, and went to pursue his MD in Internal Medicine from Government Medical College, Kottayam. With a special interest in the management of cardiovascular diseases, he did his DM in Cardiology from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences. Dr Rajiv completed his one-year commonwealth fellowship in 2004 by the British Council (UK) under the guidance of Prof. Alan G. Fraser in the Wales Heart Research Institute and University Hospital of Wales. He also obtained accreditation of the European Association of Echocardiography in 2006. Further, he had multiple trainings in 3-D ECHO in 2009 in Hongkong; IVUS and rotablation in 2010 in Miyasaki, Japan; renal denervation in Frankfurt, Germany in 2013 and percutaneous aortic valve replacement in Switzerland in 2013.

Dr Rajiv has performed over 20,000 coronary angiograms (femoral/radial) and over 7,500 angioplasties including complex coronary angioplasties involving left main, complex bifurcations, calcified coronary lesions, chronic total occlusions and bypass graft angioplasties. He is also adept at coronary imaging (IVUS-intravascular ultrasound & OCT- Optical Coherence Tomography), and fractional flow reserve and rotablation and IVL (Intravascular Lithotripsy) for calcified coronary lesions. He has been instrumental in the expansion of the aortic stent programme at Amirta Hospital Kochi started by its first chairman late Prof. K.K. Haridas. Dr Rajiv also performs stent grafting and hybrid cardiac procedures routinely.