Doctors Profile

• M.D. (AIIMS), D.M. (PGI), FACC, FSCAI, FESC
• Consultant Cardiologist
• Director of Cath Lab at Yashoda Hospital Malakpet

Consultation Timings:

• 1. Rhythm Clinic and Scan Centre - 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)
• 2. Bhagwati Clinic, Charkaman - 6.30 pm to 9.00 pm (Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
• 3. Yashoda Hospital, Malakpet - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (Monday to Saturday)

Dr. PawanPoddar is a well known senior Cardiologist in the city with experience of more than 15 years.
He has done his post-graduation in Internal Medicine from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
New Delhi and his DM in Cardiology from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
(PGIMER), Chandigarh - two of India’s most prestigious medical education institutes. His work ethics and commitment to patient care is unparalleled. He is passionately involved at all levels of patient management.
He is a very skilled interventionist doing a large number of complex interventions.

Education Qualifications:

• MBBS - 2002 (Osmania Medical College)
• MD Internal Medicine - 2006 (AIIMS New Delhi),
• DM Cardiology - 2009 (PGIMER Chandigarh)

Special Interest and Expertise:

Complex Coronary Interventions including:

• 1. CTO interventions
• 2. Rota ablation assisted interventions
• 3. IVUS and OCT guided interventions
• 4. FFR and RFR guided interventions
• 5. Intravascular Lithotrypsy (IVL) assisted interventions
• 6. CHIP interventions
• 7. Impella and ECMO assisted interventions

Structural Heart Interventions including:

• 1. ASD and PFO device closures
• 2. VSD device closures
• 3. PDA device closures
• 4. RSOV device closures
• 5. LA appendage closures
• 6. TAVR
• 7. Aortic and Mitral Valve in valve procedures
• 8. Closure of prosthetic valve paravalvular leaks

Aortic interventions including:

• 1. TEVAR
• 2. EVAR
• 3. Coarctation of Aorta

Pacemaker implantations including:

• 1. Single and Dual Chamber Pacemakers (including Left Bundle Pacing)
• 2. Micra leadless pacemakers
• 3. Single and Dual Chamber ICDS
• 4. Cardiac Resymchronization Therapy (CRT-P and CRT-D)

Peripheral Interventions including:

• 1. Carotid stenting with distal protection device
• 2. Renal stenting
• 3. Iliac, superficial femoral artery angioplasty and stenting
• 4. Below knee interventions
• 5. IVC filter placements
• 6. Interventional management of acute pulmonary embolism

Peripheral Interventions including:

• 1. Carotid stenting with distal protection device
• 2. Renal stenting
• 3. Iliac, superficial femoral artery angioplasty and stenting
• 4. Below knee interventions
• 5. IVC filter placements
• 6. Interventional management of acute pulmonary embolism

Experience:

Dr. Poddar is an astute clinician with vast clinical experience. He is one of the leading Cardiologist in
Hyderabad. He has done more than 20,000 diagnostic coronary angiograms and more than 5000
coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures including complex coronary interventions like Left
main coronary interventions, chronic total occlusions, bifurcation stenting, saphenous venous graft interventions. His area of interest include complex coronary interventions and structural heart
interventions like TAVR and Valve in valve procedures. He has done lot of complex coronary interventions
using intracoronary imaging modalities like IVUS and OCT and also used calcified plaque modulating
techniques like rota ablation and Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL). He has done large number of peripheral interventions (including renal and carotid angioplasty and stenting), more than 300 permanent pacemaker implantations (including ICD and CRT implantations), numerous pediatric right and left heart cardiac catheterizations and also pediatric structural interventions like ASD, VSD, PDA and RSOV device closures.

Research & Publications

Chapters in Text Book

• 1. TalwarKK ,Poddar P Disorders of Myocardium in Munjal YP, ed. API Textbook of medicine, ninth edition.
  Jaypeebrothers medical publishers (P) LTD, 2012:728-736

National and International Indexed Publications

• 1. Poddar P, Gurizala S, Rao S. Endovascular stenting of IVC using Brockenbrough's needle in Budd–Chiari
  syndrome – A case report. Indian Heart J. 2014 May-Jun;66(3):363-5.
• 2. Goel K, Gupta N, Misra A, Poddar P, Pandey RM, Vikram NK, Wasir JS. Predictive equations for body fat
  and abdominal fat with DXA and MRI as reference in Asian Indians. Obesity 2008 Feb;16(2):451-6.
• 3. Goel K, Misra A, Vikram NK, Poddar P, Gupta N. Subcutaneous Abdominal Adipose Tissue is associated
  with the Metabolic Syndrome in Asian Indians independent of Intra-abdominal and Total body fat. Heart.
  2010 Apr;96(8):579-83.
• 4. Joseph L, Wasir JS, Misra A, Vikram NK, Goel K, Pandey RM, Chandra M, Poddar P, Kondal D. Appropriate
  values of adiposity and lean body mass indices to detect cardiovascular risk factors in Asian Indians.
  Diabetes TechnolTher. 2011 Sep;13(9):899-906.
• 5. Talwar KK, Poddar P. Beta Blockers in Cardiomyopathy : Status Report 2010. Indian Heart J. 2010 Mar-Apr;
  62(2):123-5.
• 6. Vijayvergiya R, Poddar P, Behera A, Lal A. Profile of Aortoiliac Disease in Patients with Multivessel
  Coronary Artery Disease. As-219; Am J Cardiol 2009;103(9):93B.
• 7. Goel K, Gupta N, Misra A, Poddar P, Pandey RM, Vikram NK, Wasir JS. Response to "Predictive Equations for
  Body Fat in Asian Indians". (Letter) Obesity 2009;17(5): 936-937.
• 8. Annavarajula SK, Suryaprakash B, Kashinatham D, Poddar P. Unusual presentation of posttransplant renal
  artery stenosis ‐ A case report. Indian J Transplant 2021;12:269-71