Skills of Doctor
PROCEDURE EXPERT IN
Single and dual chamber pacemakers, Leadless pacemaker implants, Defibrillator implants, Cardiac resynchronization devices (CRT, CRTd), Subcutaneous ICDs
Supraventricular tachycardia ablations, Atrial fibrillation ablations, Ventricular tachycardia ablations, Complex VT ablations like Epicardial ablations, Familiarity with both CARTOR and NavXR 3-D mapping systems, Endomyocardial biopsies
Diagnostic radial & femoral coronary angiograms, Primary coronary angioplasty in acute MI, Routine coronary angioplasties
SPECIALITY IN SIMPLE TERM
- Heart Rhythm disorders (Arrhythmias, Atrial fibrillation, Ventricular tachycardias)
- Pacemakers & Defibrillator implant & management
- Heart failure management
- Cardiac resynchronization device implants & management
- Heart attack prevention and management
- Coronary stent interventions & management
Qualification
- Dr Deep Chandh Raja S is the best cardiologist in chennai .
- Dr Deep Chandh Raja S holding an experience of 14 years as an best cardiac surgeon in chennai
- Dr Deep Chandh Raja S is well known as a cardiology specialist with a vast knowledge of cardiology .
- On the basis of his experience he is one of the best cardio surgeons in chennai .
- MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Cardiology)
- DNB (Cardiology) FNB (Intervention Cardiology)
- Advanced Cardiac Electrophysiology (Canberra Heart Rhythm Center, Canberra Hospitals, Australian National University)
Visiting Hospital with affiliations
- Raja Superspeciality Clinic- Senior Consultant Cardiologist
- Kauvery hospital- Clinical Lead of Cardiac Electrophysiology & Consultant Cardiologist
Experiences
- Research Experience
- Patient Experience (14 years)
- Teaching Experience
- Dr Deep Chandh Raja has participated in multiple international & national clinical trials.
• Novel risk stratification tools in Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
• Co-investigator: BIOMASTER.BIOMONITOR III, 2020 – till date – A multi-centre, international, open label study. The aim of the study is to test the safety and efficacy of the FIT OneStep which will be used as an insertion tool to implant the BIOMONITOR III.
• Co-investigator: OCEAN, Optimal antiCoagulation for Enhanced risk pAtients Post-catheter ablatioN for atrial fibrillation, 2019 – till date – OCEAN is a prospective, open label, randomised controlled study aimed to investigate the superiority of long-term oral anticoagulation over antiplatelet therapy in preventing stroke in AF patients after their catheter ablation. The study is sponsored by Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation based in Ottawa, Canada.
• Co-investigator: CAPLA, Catheter Ablation for Persistent atriaL fibrillAtion, 2019 – till date. CAPLA is an investigator-led, multicenter, randomised study. It assesses the effect of posterior left atrial wall isolation (PWI) with PVI (Pulmonary vein isolation) method in comparison to PVI method alone in atrial fibrillation ablation recurrence rate.
• Co-investigator: SOLVE CRT, Stimulation Of the Left Ventricular Endocardium for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy, 2019 – till date – Solve-CRT is a multi-centre, randomized and double-blind trial. The patients have cardiac indications of either in Class I, Class IIa and Class IIb, in which their CRT have either failed to respond or have been unable to receive conventional CRT. The aim of the study is to test a new method to place the CRT. The study is funded by EBR Systems from United States of America.
• Coinvestigator studies at the MMM: Pilot study iFR vs FFR, MASTER-DAPT trial
- 14 years of patient experience
May 2022- present: Director of Cardiology, Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Cardiac Electrophysiologist (Raja Superspeciality Clinic)
2019-2022: Advanced Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow (Canberra Hospitals & Australian National University)
2016- 2019: Associate Consultant Cardiologist (The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai)
2013- 2016: Senior Resident in Cardiology (Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, Lucknow)
2009-2013: Junior Resident in Internal Medicine (King George Medical College, Lucknow)
- Dr Deep Chandh Raja has taught medical students, cardiac scientists, and cardiac technologists. He has trained cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology trainee.
• Tutor for undergraduate medical students (2009-2012)
• Tutor for postgraduate internal medicine students (2012-2016)
• Training of Cardiology Trainees at Madras Medical Mission, Chennai (2016-2019)
• Training of Cardiac scientists, Technicians at Canberra Hospitals, Australian National University (2019-2022)
Achievements / Awards / Conferences & Publications
• Best case for fellows at Transcatheter-Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2017, Denver, USA
• AV Gandhi award (2017) for excellence in cardiology
• Best original article (Dr. JC Patel and BC Mehta award, 2017) by the Association of Physicians of India JAPI, India
• Best case at the annual Indian Heart Rhythm Society conference (2017)
• Prize finalist (Heart Rhythm oral and poster) at CSANZ 2019, Adelaide
• Best Case series at Annual Electrophysiology conference, IHRS 2017, Ahmedabad, India
• Won Best Paper presentation award at national CSICON in 2016
• Won Best Poster presentation award at national APICON in 2012
• Won Academic Award for First rank in University examinations in Physiology in MBBS
• Distinctions in Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology in MBBS
Invited Faculty:
• Indian Heart Rhythm Society (2020, 2021)
• Transcatheter-cardiovascular therapeutics (TCT) 2017, Denver, USA
• World congress of Clinical cardiology and Echocardiography 2017, Jaipur, India
• Global cardio-diabetes conclave (GCDC) Chennai 2017, India
• ECG/ Live EP workshop 2017-2019, MMM
• Cardiac morphology course MMM August 8, 2017, India
• Pacemaker symposium 2018, Hyderabad KIMS hospital
• ECG workshop-25/06/2017, Chennai (EMCURE PHARMA), India
• Cardiac morphology course MMM August 8, 2017, India, India
• 2nd Genetics Meet of Cardio-vascular diseases 2017 MMM, Chennai, India
International Conferences:
CSANZ 2021, Adelaide
• Survival characteristics in 566 patients receiving ICD: Real-world data from The Canberra Hospital device (TCH-ICD) registry
• Characteristics of patients and the device therapies: Real world-data from The Canberra Hospital device (TCH-ICD) registry
CSANZ 2019, Adelaide
• 3-D electro-anatomical mapping guided lead placement in CRT (Heart Rhythm Prize finalist- oral presentation)
• Percutaneous temporary stellate ganglion block for refractory VT storm: a case series (Mini-Oral presentation)
• Prophylactic Radio-Frequency Ablation (RFA) before an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD): a case series (Poster Prize Finalist)
• Pharmacological cardioversion with ‘Ibutilide’ in atrial tachyarrhythmias: Safety and Efficacy
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for Left Atrial Flutters in Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) Following Valve Replacement: A Case Series
Heart-Rhythm Society (HRS) 2019, San Franscico
• Para-Hisian pacing by RV-coil in lieu of CRT-D
• Pacing from atrial-dipole for optimisation of positioning of the DX-ICD lead
• Co-existence of concealed epicardial (left) and endocardial (right) accessory pathway: Illustration and mechanisms
Asia-pacific heart rhythm society (APHRS) 2018, Taiwan
• Ablation of a Double-Wave Reentry Circuit of Atrial Flutter in a Complex Congenital Heart Disease with Situs Inversus and Dextrocardia
• Typical AVNRT with Bystander Atrio-Fascicular Pathway Activation: Illustration and Mechanisms
• Illustration and Mechanisms of Initiation of an Atypical AVNRT after Ablation of Typical AVNRT
• Fluoroless Ablation of Right Atrial Appendage Tachycardia in a 4-Yr-Old Child
• Orthodromic and antidromic tachycardias by multiple accessory pathways in Ebstein’s anomaly
• Dual chamber permanent pacemaker implantation in extra-cardiac Fontan: A novel technique
• Remote Monitoring of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices – The Largest Single Centre Experience from India
• Radiofrequency Ablation for Left Atrial Flutters in Rheumatic Heart Disease Following Valve Replacement: A Case Series
• Posterior papillary muscle VT ablation in pediatric patients: A Case Series
Heart-Rhythm society (HRS) 2018, USA
• Duodromic tachycardia involving the right postero-septal accessory pathway and Mahaim pathway
Transcatheter-cardiovascular therapeutics (TCT) 2017, Denver, USA
• Oral paper (International Fellows case) “Endovascular repair of complex supra-aortic aneurysms of the neck” (Award winning)
• Challenging case– “Successful endovascular repair of a complex subclavian aneurysm”
• Challenging case– “Endovascular repair of a carotid aneurysm with complex anatomy”
World congress of Echocardiography
• Oral paper “Repair of a complex submitral aneurysm” at Jaipur, India (2017)
• Oral Paper “Atrial septal aneurysm with rheumatic mitral stenosis” at New Delhi, India (2011)
National Conferences:
Indian-heart rhythm society (IHRS)- 2021, 2020, 2019
The Madras Medical Mission, Annual AHFA conferences (2017, 2018, 2019)
• Live EP workshops: 2017- 2019
• Annual ECG conference: 2017- 2019
Indian-heart rhythm society (IHRS), 2018, Jaipur
• 3-D electroanatomical mapping guided CRT (Oral paper)
Indian-heart rhythm society (IHRS), 2017, Ahmedabad
• RFA of left sided atrial flutters in post-op MVR RHD patients (Oral paper- Award winning)
• A case of Duodromic tachycardia involving the Mahaim pathway (Oral paper)
• A case of papillary muscle VT mimicking posterior fascicular VT in a young female (Poster)
• CRT in RBBB: Use of 3-D electro-anatomical mapping (Poster)
AV Gandhi Award National level 2017, New Delhi (Award winning)
• Heart rate manipulation in Dilated cardiomyopathy- Role of Ivabradine
2nd Genetic meet of Cardiovascular diseases 2017, the Madras Medical Mission
• Oral Paper- “A rare genetic variant in a case of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy” at the
National Cardiology conference (CSICON) 2016, Chennai
• Heart rate manipulation in Dilated cardiomyopathy- Role of Ivabradine (Award winning)
• Detection and localization of CAD with Myocardial deformation imaging in patients of Chronic stable angina
National Association of Physicians of India conference (APICON) 2012, Kolkata
• Assessment of Myocardial dysfunction in Sepsis (Award winning)
• ECG manifestations in Aluminium phosphide poisoning
• Intra-abdominal cause for massive pleural effusion
• Aggressive management in Aluminium phosphide poisoning
• 42 publications- 9 original articles, 17 case reports (peer-reviewed), 5 review article & 11 chapters in textbooks; Google scholar H-index- 5; Citations- 59; Research gate index- 20.7
• Link to access publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deepchandh-Raja
• ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-5381
Original articles
1. Deep Chandh Raja, Subban V, Mathew R, Abdullakutty J, Joseph J, George J, Chandra S, Livingston N, Nair SG, Janakiraman E, Kalidoss L, Sankaradas AM, Comparison of resting and adenosine-free pressure indices with adenosine induced hyperemic fractional flow reserve in intermediate coronary lesions. Indian Heart Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2018.11.016
2. Deep Chandh Raja, Vijayakumar Subban, Ajit S. Mullasari, et al. Predictors of short-term outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in cardiogenic shock complicating STEMI—A tertiary care center experience. Indian Heart J (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2018.03.006
3. Deep Chandh Raja, Sanjay Mehrotra, Avinash Agrawal, et al. Cardiac Biomarkers and Myocardial Dysfunction in Septicemia. J Assoc Physicians India 2017;65(12):14-19.
4. Deep Chandh Raja, Vijayakumar Subban, Ajit S. Mullasari, et al. The impact of systems-of-care on pharmacoinvasive management with streptokinase: The subgroup analysis of the TN-STEMI programme. Indian Heart J (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.07.006
5. Deep Chandh Raja, Aditya Kapoor, Archana Sinha, Shiridhar Kashyap, Roopali Khanna, Sudeep Kumar, Naveen Garg, Satyendra Tewari, Pravin Goel. Heart rate manipulation in dilated cardiomyopathy: Assessing the role of Ivabradine. Indian Heart J (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.08.009
6. Usman K, Himanshu D, Verma S, Deep Chandh Raja, Khanna R. Electrocardiographic abnormalities in aluminium phosphide poisoning. International Journal of medical toxicology and legal medicine 2011; 14:1 (July – Sept)
7. Himanshu D, Sawlani KK, Deep Chandh Raja, Verma SP, Nirdesh Jain, Chaudhary SC. Role of Aggressive Management on Outcome in Patients of Acute Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning: Toxicology International 2017; 24(1):28-33
8. Chieng David, Sugumar Hariharan, Ling Liang-Han, Segan Louise, Azzopardi Sonia, Prabhu Sandeep, Al-Kaisey Ahmed, Voskoboinik Aleksandr, Parameswaran Ramanathan, Morton Joseph B, Pathik Bhupesh, McLellan Alex J, Lee Geoffrey, Wong Michael, Finch Sue, Pathak Rajeev K, Raja Deep Chandh, Sanders Prashanthan, Sterns Laurence, Ginks Matthew, Reid Christopher M, Kalman Jonathan M, Kistler Peter, Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: a Multicentre Randomised Trial of Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI) versus PVI with Posterior Left Atrial Wall Isolation (PWI) – the CAPLA Study, American Heart Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2021.09.015
9. Abhilash SP, Raja DC, Stolcman S, Yi DS, Rahman M, Tan R, Mahajan A, Lau DH, Abhayaratna WP, Sanders P, Pathak RK. Computerized tomography image correlation of His bundle/deep septal pacing location and outcomes: an analysis from the Canberra HIs bundle/deep septal Pacing Study (CHIPS). J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2022 Jan 27. doi: 10.1007/s10840-022-01133-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35084617.
Case reports
1. Raja DC, Mohanan Nair KK, Badhwar N, Pandurangi UM. Supraventricular tachycardia with shifting atrial activation patterns caused by extrastimuli: What is the mechanism? J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2020 Sep;31(9):2516-2518. doi: 10.1111/jce.14669.
2. Raja DC, Subban V, Livingston N, Thenpally J, Mullasari AS. Optical Coherence Tomography and Intravascular Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Coronary Intramural Hematoma. Heart Views. 2019 Jan-Mar;20(1):32-33.
3. Deep Chandh Raja, Muthuseenivasan Ranganathan, Jaya Pradhap Velu, Ulhas M. Pandurangi. An addition to the differential diagnosis of AV Wenckebach in the His-bundle pacing era! Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 18 (2018) 237e239
4. Deep Chandh Raja, Sabari Saravanan, Anitha G. Sathishkumar, Ulhas M. Pandurangi. Right atrial appendage tachycardia: A rare cause of tachycardia induced cardiomyopathy in a 4- year-old child, Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipej.2018.07.001
5. Deep Chandh Raja, Ulhas M Pandurangi. Ibutilide for pharmacological cardioversion of atrial flutter/ fibrillation. TAPIJ 2017;9 (1):35-38
6. Deep Chandh Raja, Palanisamy V, Chidambaram K, Pandurangi U, Mullasari AS, Sethuratnam R. Repair of a Submitral Aneurysm with associated left atrial wall dissection. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2017 Jan 1:218492317713425. doi: 10.1177/0218492317713425. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28537419
7. Deep Chandh Raja, Udaya Charan Murmu, Ulhas M Pandurangi. A rare genetic variant in a case of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Advances in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disorders 2017;1(1):00023
8. Deep Chandh Raja, Vijayakumar Subban, Ajit S. Mullasari, et al. OCT and IVUS Characteristics of PCI-related Intra-Mural Hematomas- A case series. Heart Views (accepted and waiting for publication)
9. Ghosh A, Raja DC, Deshmukh A, Pandurangi UM. Gradual prolongation of PR interval followed by a pause. What is the mechanism? J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022;1‐4. doi:10.1111/jce.15338
10. Yang QJQ, Raja DC, Stolcman S, Abhilash SP, Greenough R, Abhayaratna WP, Tan RP, Pathak RK. Cardiac resynchronization with His-CRT-D in a patient with severe heart failure and Scimitar syndrome. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 May;44(5):955-959. doi: 10.1111/pace.14139.
11. Agstam S, Gupta A, Raja DC, Bansal S, An intriguing case of alternating bundle branch block pattern post-dual chamber pacemaker implant. Unexpected complication during pacemaker implantation., HeartRhythm Case Reports (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.hrcr.2020.04.004.
12. Sane PS, Raja DC, Sarvanan S, Pandurangi U. Hybrid magneto – impedance based 3-D electro-anatomical mapping in a complex case of incessant left atrial tachycardia.Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2019 Sep 10;. doi: 10.1016/j.ipej.2019.09.002
13. Ajmani S, Misra DP, Raja DC, Mohindra N, Agarwal V. Behcet’s Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology. Case reports in Immunology; Volume 2015, Article ID 149359, 3 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2015/149359
14. Khanna R, Raja D, Goel P. K. An elephant trunk appearance—what is the diagnosis? Echocardiography 2016;00: 1–4. doi: 10.1111/ echo.13276
15. Sawlani KK, Chaudhary SC, Singh J, Raja DC, Mishra S, Goel MM. Dapsone-induced pure red cell aplasia and cholestatic jaundice: A new experience for diagnosis and management. J Res Pharm Pract 2016;5:215-8
16. Naveen Garg, Deep Chandh Raja. A Challenging case of PDA Device Closure in an adult: Use of unconventional views and catheters: Heart Views 2018;19:20-2
17. Naveen Garg, Deep Chandh Raja. Add-on pacing/sensing lead for successful management of “Defibrillator Shock Storm”: Repair of a Make and Break Circuit. IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (CVCR), 2018;2 (1): 61-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihjccr.2018.01.003
Review articles
1. Deep Chandh Raja, Prashanthan Sanders, Rajeev Kumar Pathak. Utility of Intracardiac Echocardiography to Guide Transseptal Catheterization for Different Electrophysiology Procedures. Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, Volume 13, Issue 2, 293 – 301 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccep.2021.02.003
2. Deep Chandh Raja, Vickram Vignesh Rangaswamy, Sreevilasam Pushpangadhan Abhilash, Kieran King, Rajeev K Pathak. Electrophysiological Substrates in Papillary Muscle Arrhythmias – Implications for Catheter Ablation. European Journal of Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology. 2020;6(1):32–8 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17925/EJAE.2020.6.1.32
3. Deep Chandh Raja, Prashanthan Sanders, Rajeev Pathak. How much is enough? An appraisal of high‐power short‐duration radiofrequency ablation for pulmonary vein isolation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2019; 1– 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.14124
4. Deep Chandh Raja, Aditya Kapoor. Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in India. JAPI 2016 (August) (supplement copy on Atrial Fibrillation)
5. Craig J McCallum, Deep Chandh Raja, Rajeev K Pathak. Aust Prescr 2019;42:186–91. https://doi.org/10.18773/ austprescr.2019.067
Chapters in books
1. Deep Chandh Raja, Prashanthan Sanders, Rajeev Pathak; “Effect of Transmural Scar and Hypertrophy on Identifying Epicardial Substrate with Unipolar Endocardial Recording”- Percutaneous Epicardial Interventions: A Guide for Cardiac Electrophysiologists, Cardiotext (May, 2020 ebooks.cardiotextpublishing.com)
2. “STEMI in Elderly: Is it complex?” in STEMI- A Cardiology Update 2015
3. “Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention” in CSI Cardiology Update 2015
4. “Advanced Life Support” in Handbook on Cardiac Critical Care 2015
5. “Acquired Hemophagocytic Syndrome” in Hematology Update 2012
6. “Current and future therapeutic options targeting cardiovascular disease risk: Emerging therapeutic options in dyslipidemia treatment” in Cardiology Update 2016
7. “Superiority of Novel oral anticoagulants over vitamin K antagonists” in Atrial Fibrillation Update 2016
8. “Statins in Acute Coronary Syndrome” in Lipidology In Clinical Practice 2017
9. “Etiopathogenesis and clinical recognition of cardiogenic shock” in textbook of the Global Cardio-Diabetes Conclave 2017
10. “Pacing in Cardio-Diabetes” in Cardio-Diabetes Update in the CSI textbook of Cardiology 2017
11. “Challenges in management of Heart failure” under “Scenario of heart failure in India” in Cardiology in Indian Perspective- a comprehensive text CSI 2017