Dr. Chetan Bhambure

M.B.B.S., M.D. (Medicine), DNB (Cardiology)
Consultant- Interventional Cardiology

Bio

Dr. Chetan Bhambure has had an enviable career, leading from the Department of Cardiology & Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Bombay Hospital, to being appointed as an Assistant Cardiologist with Dr. Eric Borges. Dr. Bhambure’s expertise in Cardiology later gave him an opportunity to become Associate Consultant Cardiologist at Bombay Hospital. He has, till date, performed about 4,000 coronary angiograms and assisted and individually performed over 2,000 angioplasties. He has a special interest in Heart Failure and Cardiac interventions.

Achievements:

• These are a few of the achievements that Dr. Chetan Bhambure has acquired in non-invasive Cardiology:
• 2D Echocardiography and color Doppler imaging (adult, pediatric and neonatal)
• Tissue Doppler Imaging
• Strain rate echocardiography for assessment of myocardial function
• Dyssynchrony evaluation in patients with heart failure requiring CRT
• Dobutamine Stress echocardiography
• Trans-esophageal echocardiography
• Stress test
• Holter monitoring
• Tilt table test

• Paper: Factors influencing the response to erythropoietin, MAPICON 2001, Mumbai
• Poster: Anemia in chronic renal failure, APICON 2002, Chennai

Education

• M.B.B.S.
• M.D. (Medicine)
• DNB (Cardiology)

Expertise

• Percutaneous cardiac interventions: Coronary angiography and PTCA with stents
• Peripheral interventions: Renal, femoral, subclavian angiography and angioplasty
• Cardiac catheterization for valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy
• Balloon valvotomies
• Pacemaker implantation (temporary, permanent)
• Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
• Biventricular pacemaker for dyssynchrony (CRT)
• ASD, VSD closure devices
• Intra-aortic balloon pump
• Heart Failure