Dr Raghu Cherukupalli is a Cardiologist who is driven by his mission statement of “ Help all – Harm never ”. His patients, colleagues and acquaintances always seek him because of this. He envisions himself as a compassionate doctor always available to walk that extra mile for the patient by providing latest therapies and also tailor his therapies as per patients’ wishes. He takes a keen interest in educating the patient about the disease as well as the therapy, enabling the patient to become a partner in the disease management. Sharing his knowledge with future generations of medical professionals is his passion. With this objective, he established a “Training Academy for Cardiovascular Interventions” and trains professionals – both medical and paramedical on the nuances of techniques in Cardiology. Metamorphosing a professional from an academic degree to a life skill ready professional is his motto in establishing this academy. He is pioneer in trans-radial procedures and has been a recognized as a master teacher for the same. He has evolved over the past decade from performing angioplasties of the heart vessels to treating children’s cardiac defects to treating blocked vessels of the legs. All this is driven by a single motive of helping patients where there is a felt under addressed need.

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Interventional Cardiologist
Vascular Interventionalist
Limb Salvage Specialist
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Recipient of
 Smt. Kirpal Kaur Memorial Gold Medal at AIIMS
- New Delhi - 1992
 Sri Krishna Memorial Gold Medal - Cardiological
Society of India - 1998
 Best Young Interventional Cardiologist - 1 st
prize - Singapore Live - 2007

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Professional Expertise
 Performed 30,000 diagnostic
angiography procedures and
13,000 angioplasty procedures
 High success rates of
Interventions >99.5% assured
even in most complex sub-sets
 One of the rare Cardiologists
world-wide who is adept at
performing coronary, congenital,
vascular and pacemaker
interventions with a very high
success rates

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Dedicated Teacher
 Trains Interventional
Cardiologists through Training
Academy for Cardiovascular
Interventions
 Till date this programme has
benefited 200 Cardiologists.
 Dedicated website
www.interventionaltraining.com
 Single day module of ECG
training for Physicians and
Postgraduates – till date
conducted 25 sessions of ECG

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Coronary Interventions
 Left Main interventions
 Bifurcation lesion angioplasty
 Chronic total occlusion angioplasty
 Acute MI primary angioplasty
 Rotablator procedures
 Post bypass graft angioplasty

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Chronic total occlusion angioplasty
 Recognized International specialist in this field
 Adopts new technology available world-wide to
perform successful PCI in CTO
 Track record of 94% success rates in his series
of 230 CTO cases over the last 2 years
 Performs both antegrade and retrograde routes
for CTO angioplasty

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Vascular Interventions
 Prevent amputation is a passion
 Driven to save limbs both in acute and chronic situations
 Performs chronic total occlusion angioplasty of Superficial femoral arteries
 One of the very few doctors in India who does below-knee procedures routinely
 Treatment for erectile dysfunction by angioplasty with a high success rates
 Angioplasty and stent procedures for carotid and renal arteries
 Angioplasty and stent procedures for celiac and mesenteric ischemia cases

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Diabetic foot and non-healing ulcer
 Therapeutic options are limited
 Surgery not suitable in view of distal diffuse disease
 Majority end up in amputation
 Offer a safe and successful angioplasty for the lower limb
vessels
 Prevents amputation in 95% of cases
 Specialized expertise and adoption of cutting edge
technologies led to such high success rates

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Varicose veins therapies
 Treatment of non-healing
varicose ulcers
 Ultrasonography guided
percutaneous trans-luminal
laser ablation of long
saphenous vein

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Congestive Heart Failure
 Expert drug titration leading to high rates of symptom relief,
reduction of morbidity and prolongation of survival
 EF less than 20% cases marked improvement in symptoms
and survival with medicines and life-style changes
 Remote monitoring of heart failure
 Management of heart failure with co-morbidities
 Patient education and partnering in therapy
 Revascularization in heart failure
 Device therapies for heart failure

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Pulmonary Hypertension
 Idiopathic Pulmonary artery Hypertension work up
and follow up
 Expert drug titration – choosing combination drug
therapies
 Assessment of pulmonary vaso-reactivity
 Large series of plus 25 patients on regular follow up
with survivals of more than 12 years
 Principal investigator for many clinical trials of
idiopathic PAH
 Thrombo-embolic Pulmonary Hypertension
identification and management
 Management of secondary Pulmonary Hypertension
due to valve and myocardial disease, lung disease
and auto-immune disease

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