Dr. Anil Kumar D

Cardiac Surgery 40 years of overall experience KIMS Hospital Hyderabad

About Dr. Anil Kumar D

Dr. Anil Kumar Dharmapuram graduated from S.V. Medical College, Tirupathi (MBBS, April 1984). After that, he completed his post-graduate training in General Surgery in K. J. Hospital, Chennai and obtained the DNB degree in General Surgery from the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi (May 1991). He pursued his cardiac surgical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi (Jan 1996), and later he worked as a specialist pediatric cardiac surgeon at Al Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE (April 1999 to April 2003). He received advanced training in pediatric cardiac surgery as a Clinical Instructor in Lucille Packard’s Children’s Hospital, Stanford University, California, USA (June 2007), under the supervision of internationally renowned surgeons. He performs a range of operations in neonates and infants diagnosed with heart disease. The common & routine surgeries include Atrial septal defect (ASD), Ventricular septal defect (VSD), Multiple ventricular septal defects (Multiple VSD’s), Tetralogy of fallot (TOF), Coarctation of aorta repair (CoA), and Aorto-pulmonary window (AP window). Apart from this, he does several major & complex cardiac surgical procedures like Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC), Arterial switch operation for transposition of great arteries (TGA), combined repair of the aortic arch and ventricular septal defect, Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA), Complete AV canal defect (CAVCD), Mitral valve repair (MV repair), Truncus Arteriosus repair with RV to PA conduit, Fontan repair (final stage of single ventricle palliation- TCPC), Senning operation, Double switch operation for c-TGA, Unifocalization for TOF with Pulmonary atresia and MAPCAS and Pulmonary Root Translocation (PRT) for d-TGA with VSD and LVOT obstruction. He established the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery unit in February 2012 in KIMS Hospitals. He has performed around 3400 cases of cardiac surgical operations in children with heart disease. He operated on several cases in very small-weight babies. In the VSD category, the smallest weight baby operated was 2.0 kg. Similarly, in the TGA/TAPVC category, the smallest weight baby operated was 2.0 kg.

Awards & Recognition

Best Poster Award -Won at the Asian Cardiovascular Surgeons Association (ASCVTS) meeting, Hong Kong in May 2015. Recognition was for his innovative technique: “Single-stage repair of the aortic arch and associated cardiac defects with antegrade cerebral perfusion using direct innominate artery cannulation in neonates and infants”.This research was subsequently published in the Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2015;31(2)