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About Dr. Sai Satish

about sai sathish

Dr. Sai Satish is an internationally renowned Senior Interventional Cardiologist from Apollo Hospitals, India. He is also a practicing interventional cardiologist & teaching faculty at one of the world’s best TAVI training centres, the Gottsegen Institute of Cardiology in Budapest, Hungary.

A pioneer in the field of transcatheter valve therapies, he holds the reputation for having performed the highest number of percutaneous edge to edge mitral repairs in the subcontinent till date (MitraClip implants).

about sai sathish
  • As an international trainer for transcatheter aortic valve implantation, he has trained doctors from over 20 countries with his hands-on training programmes
  • Started the therapy in over 30 centres across India, Asia and Europe.
  • He started India’s first dedicated international transcatheter training center in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
  • He also trained Sri Lanka’s doctors, helping implant the country’s first few valves.

Dr. Sai Satish has also been an active part of India’s maiden MitraClip journey, a revolutionary procedure treating leaking mitral valves in critically-ill, and inoperable heart failure patients giving them a second lease of life. It is a niche procedure that is so technically demanding that only 3 centres across India have been licensed to perform. Dr. Sai Satish has implanted up to 6 MitraClips back to back.

His most recent milestone was a completely transcatheter mitral valve replacement by transeptal access for a surgically implanted mitral valve that failed after 14 years.

Dr. Sai Satish’s team has performed thousands of procedures for diffusely diseased vessels, Left Mains (isolated/ bifurcation/trifurcation), Chronic Total Occlusions (100% blocked vessels) and heavily calcified vessels with rotablation for which also he is a proctor.

Dr Sai Satish sits on several international advisory boards and chairs sessions on complex PCI and TAVI. He has performed several live case demonstrations and initiated many centers both in and outside India in rotablation as well.

A trailblazer in minimally invasive cardiovascular therapies, he has been performing procedures at Apollo Hospitals Chennai since 2006.

Dr. Sai Satish has a strong social streak as well, running several free camps across the country, championing preventive health because he firmly believes lifestyle monitoring is the best bet for future generations.