Doctors

Education:

• MBBS from 2010 to 2016, AMC MET Medical College, Ahmedabad, India.
• MD (Medicine) 2016 to 2019, Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College & VS Hospital, Ahmedabad, India.
• DM (Cardiology) 2019 to 2022, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SVPIMSR), Ahmedabad, India.
• DrNB (Cardiology) April 2023, National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
• Fellowship August 2024 Fellowship in Trans Catheter Heart Valve Therapies at UMC, Astana under guidance of Professor Abdurashid Mussayev.

Experience:

• 3 years of Experience as Internal Medicine Resident at Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College & VS Hospital, Ahmedabad.
• 3 years of cardiology training at SVP Hospital, Ahmedabad. Individually performed over 2000 coronary cathlab procedures and over 300 percutaneous coronary intervention as the first operator and assisted over 1000 coronary interventions.
• 1.5 years Independently performs over 1500 cathlab procedures per year at Apex Heart Institute.

Current Appointments:

• Performs over 2000 Coronary Cathlab procedures & more than 600 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions every year.
• Performed over 30 Trans Catheter Heart Valve implantations in 2024 with 100% successful in hospital outcomes.

Awards and Achievements:

• Secured 3rd rank in Gujarat University in 1st year of MBBS.
• Secured 1st rank in Gujarat University in 2nd MBBS and was awarded 4 Gold Medals for the year.
• Secured 2nd rank in Gujarat University in final MBBS.
• Awarded 2 Gold medals for MD Internal Medicine from Gujarat University and Indian Medical Association respectively.
• Awarded 2 Gold medals from Gujarat University for securing 1st rank in DM cardiology exam held in 2022.

Publications:

Articles:

1. Pancholy MS, Payne M, Patel AT, et al. Factors affecting image resolution in a modern angiographic suite: A phantom based study [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jun 2]. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2022;S1553-8389(22)00283-4. doi:10.1016/j.carrev.2022.05.031.

2. Shah SC, Radadiya R, Patel A, Velamakanni SM, Patel T. Percutaneous Retrieval of Dislodged Chemo Port Catheter With Inaccessible Tips by a Simplified Technique. Cureus. 2022;14(1):e21692. Published 2022 Jan 28. doi:10.7759/cureus.21692.

3. Velamakanni SM, Khadkikar G, Panchal SS, Patel A, Shah BR. Unroofed Coronary Sinus in a Patient With Prior Surgical Closure of Secundum Atrial Septal Defect. Cureus. 2021 Nov 8;13(11):e19350. doi: 10.7759/cureus.19350. PMID: 34909311; PMCID: PMC8653927.

4. Patel A, Velamakanni SM, Parikh RM, Pandya S, Patel T. The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu's Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases. Cureus. 2021;13(5):e15286. Published 2021 May 28. doi:10.7759/cureus.15286.

5. Velamakanni SM, Patel A, Khadkikar G, Shah SC, Patel T. Tricuspid Atresia Type 1B With Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava in a Four-Month-Old Child: An Unusual Combination. Cureus. 2021;13(4):e14450. Published 2021 Apr 13. doi:10.7759/cureus.14450.

6. Shah BR, Velamakanni SM, Patel A, Khadkikar G, Patel TM, Shah SC. Analysis of the 60/60 Sign and Other Right Ventricular Parameters by 2D Transthoracic Echocardiography as Adjuncts to Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Cureus. 2021;13(3):e13800. Published 2021 Mar 10. doi:10.7759/cureus.13800.

7. Subrahmanya Murti Velamakanni, Gajanan Khadkikar, Aman Patel, Tejas Patel. Unincommisural Unicuspid Aortic Valve with Very Severe Aortic Stenosis in a 17- Year-Old Female. Cardiovasc Imaging Asia. 2021 Jul;5(3):118-119. English. Published online Jul 13, 2021. https://doi.org/10.22468/cvia.2021.00136.

8. Khadkikar G, V SM, Patel A, Shah SC, Patel TM. A Rare Case of an Unroofed Coronary Sinus With a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava Diagnosed by Two- Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography. Cureus. 2021;13(1):e13041. Published 2021 Jan 31. doi:10.7759/cureus.13041.

9. Velamakanni SM, Khadkikar G, Patel, A. Patel T. Unicommisural Unicuspid Aortic Valve with Very Severe Aortic Stenosis in a 17-Year-Old Female. Cardiovasc Imaging Asia. 2021 Jul;5(3):118-119. https://doi.org/10.22468/cvia.2021.00136

10. Pancholy, S. B., Patel, V., Pancholy, S., A. Patel, A. T., Patel, G. A., Shah, S. C., & Patel, T. M. (2021). Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Digital Plethysmography Versus Duplex Ultrasound in Detecting Radial Artery Occlusion After Transradial Access. Cardiovascular revascularization medicine: including molecular interventions, 27, 52–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2020.07.025

11. Gurmukhani Sunil, Gupta Deebanshu, Mutha Samkit, Patel Aman, Shah Sanjay, Patel Tejas. INTERESTING CASE REPORT: Vanishing Tumor of the Heart: Very Unusual Location of Left Ventricular Thrombus. Year : 2020 | Volume: 4 | Issue Number: 3 | Page: 390-392. Journal of The Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging | Published by Wolters Kluwer.

12. Sanket P. Bharadwaj, Aman T. Patel, Devang A. Rana, Supriya D. Malhotra, Tejas M. Patel: Original Research Article: Linking of different ethnicities, races and religions to lipid profile patterns and hypolipidaemic drug usage patterns in coronary artery disease patients. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. August 2019. Vol 8, Issue 8 Page 1707-1712.

13. Reddy, S., Pancholy, P. S., Pandya, K. P., Rai, A., Patel, A. T., Chauhan, S., & Gilchrist, I. C., Sr (2018). Variability of forearm collateral circulation: An observational study of serial hand plethysmography testing. Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions, 19(7 Pt A), 766–770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2018.01.006.

Abstracts:

1. V. Subrahmanya Murti, Gajanan Deorao Khadkikar, Aman T. Patel, Tejas M. Patel, Bhupesh R. Shah, Sanjay C. Shah, Analysis of the 60/60 sign and other right ventricular parameters by 2D transthoracic echocardiography as adjuncts to diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, Indian Heart Journal, Volume 72, Supplement 1, 2020, Pages S49-S50, ISSN 0019-4832, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2020.11.134.

2. Deebanshu Gupta, Nishithkumar Saradava, Aman Patel, Sanjay Shah, Bhupesh R. Shah, Tejas M. Patel, Optimization of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Optical Coherence Tomography, Indian Heart Journal, Volume 72, Supplement 1,2020, Page S13, ISSN 0019-4832, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2020.11.042.

3. Gaurav Patel, Anvit Rai, Maitri Pancholy, Sukrut Nanavaty, Mark Sandhaus, Aman Patel, Tejas Patel, Hemant Tiwari, John Coppola, Tak Kwan, Samir Pancholy. CAN NON-PROCEDURAL PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS PREDICT IN-HOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING ELECTIVE PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION? IMPLICATIONS FOR SAME-DAY DISCHARGE. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar, 69 (11_Supplement) 1354. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34743-5

4. Gaurav Patel, Maitri Pancholy, Neha Pancholy, Sukrut Nanavaty, Hemant Tiwari, Aman Patel, Tejas Patel, John Coppola, Tak Kwan, Samir Pancholy. DOES GENDER AFFECT IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH STENT THROMBOSIS? RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL REAL-WORLD REGISTRY. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar, 69 (11_Supplement) 1371. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34760-5

5. Gaurav Patel, Maitri Pancholy, Sukrut Nanavaty, Neha Pancholy, Aman Patel, Anvit Rai, John Coppola, Tak Kwan, Tejas Patel, Samir Pancholy. DOES PRESENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFFECT IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION? RESULTS FROM A REAL-WORLD REGISTRY. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar, 69 (11_Supplement) 1370. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34759-9

6. Samir B. Pancholy, Sukrut Nanavaty, Neha Pancholy, Maitri Pancholy, Kavit Pandya, John Coppola, Tak Kwan, Tejas Patel, Aman Patel, Hemant Tiwari. COMPARISON OF ADENOSINE FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE AND POST-CONTRAST INSTANTANEOUS WAVE-FREE RATIO FOR HEMODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF MODERATE CORONARY STENOSES. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar, 69 (11_Supplement) 1058. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34447-9

7. Gaurav Patel, Maitri Pancholy, Sukrut Nanavaty, Neha Pancholy, Aman Patel, Anvit Rai, Mark Sandhaus, Tejas Patel, John Coppola, Tak Kwan, Samir Pancholy. TEMPORAL TREND OF INCIDENCE OF STENT THROMBOSIS AND IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY: RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL REAL-WORLD REGISTRY. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar, 69 (11_Supplement) 1355. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34744-7

Specialty Interest:

• Structural Heart Disease And Interventions- TAVI / TAVR , TMVR , LA Appendage Occlusion, TPV1, MitraClip
• Complex Coronary Interventions
• Intravascular Imaging
• Preventive Cardiology