Dr. Ashok Seth
Specialist: Cardiac Surgery
Experience: 35+ years of experience
Hospital: Fortis Escort Heart Institute, New Delhi
Brief about doctor:
• Dr Ashok Seth is presently the Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and the Chairman of Cardiology Council, Fortis Group of Hospitals.
• Dr Seth has led the field of Interventional Cardiology for the last 30-years and has contributed extensively to the development, scientific progress and education in Interventional Cardiology in India and across the world.
• Over the past 30-years, he has pioneered numerous angioplasty techniques for India and Asia Pacific region like Directional Atherectomy, Angioscopy, Stents, Thrombectomy devices & Drug-Eluting Stents, use of Impella heart support device failing heart, Bioabsorbable Stents and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI).
• With a thriving experience of over 30 years, he is renowned for performing over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties.
• He has been featured in the “LIMCA” Book of records for performing one of the highest numbers of angiograms and angioplasties in the world.
• Dr Seth is the first cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region to perform an Angioscopy and directional Atherectomy.
• He is also counted amongst the few cardiologists in the world to perform the procedure – Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization.
• Dr Seth is one of the youngest people to be honoured with the Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) honoris Causa by Banaras Hindu University.
• Dr Seth has been honoured with the prestigious National award of “Padma Bhushan” and “Padma Shri” Award by the President of India.
• He is the First Cardiologist from Asia to be elected on the Board of Governors of Society of Cardiac Angiograms and Intervention (USA).
• He is an acclaimed teacher and has trained more than 500-cardiologists of India and abroad in advanced techniques of angioplasty.
Special areas of interest:
• Angioplasty techniques
• Directional Atherectomy,
• Angioscopy,
• Stents,
• Thrombectomy devices and Drug Eluting Stents,
• Use of Impella heart support device failing heart,
• Bioabsorbable Stents and TAVI
Educations & Training:
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.)
• J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1978.
• Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, India, 1998
• Doctor of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), India, 2012.
• Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Tirthankar Mahavir University, Moradabad, India, 2012.
• Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) Honoris Causa, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, 2012.
List of treatments:
• Coronary Angiogram
• PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
• Coronary Angioplasty
• Aortic Stent Grafting
• EPS-Electrophysiological
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
• Biventricular Pacing
• AICD
• PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
