Dr. Yugal Kishore Mishra
Experience: Over 44 years
Manipal Multispeciality Hospital, Dwarka
New Delhi, India
Introduction
Dr. YK Mishra, Chairman of Manipal Institute of Cardiac Sciences and Chief of Clinical Services at Manipal Dwarka, operates on blocked coronary arteries, damaged heart valves, aortic diseases, congenital defects, and failed previous heart surgeries. He handles first-time bypass operations to extremely high-risk redo cardiac surgeries, where operating through old scar tissue makes everything dangerous.
About Dr. Yugal Kishore Mishra
Dr. Yugal Kishore Mishra has been doing chest surgery and fixing hearts for forty-three years. Over nineteen thousand open-heart surgeries performed, including more than a thousand redo cardiac operations, which is the kind of volume very few surgeons on the planet can claim.
He has performed over five hundred robotic heart surgeries and does MIDCAB, where bypass gets done through a small chest cut without cracking the entire breastbone. Previously, he served as Director at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Max Saket. Also, he was the second Indian ever to sit on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
Qualifications
- MBBS — S.S. Medical College, Rewa (1980).
- MS (General Surgery) — S.S. Medical College, Rewa (1984).
- PhD (Cardiovascular Surgery) — Bakulev Institute, Moscow, Russia (1991).
- Fellowship (CTVS) — University Hospital Uppsala, Sweden.
- Robotic Surgery Training — Columbia University, Ohio State University, USA.
- Minimally Invasive Training — University Hospital Utrecht, Netherlands & Institute of Telesurgery, Strasbourg, France.
Awards & Recognition
- Over 19,000 open-heart surgeries and 500-plus robotic cardiac procedures.
- Rashtriya Ratan Award (2005).
- Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
- Founder of the Indian College of Cardiology.
- Past President of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons.
Specialities & Expertise
- Robotic cardiac surgery
- Minimally invasive bypass
- Off-pump coronary bypass
- Heart valve repair and replacement
- Port-access keyhole valve surgery
- Redo cardiac surgery
- Aortic aneurysm repair
- Congenital heart surgery
Patient Experience & Approach
Families say Dr. Mishra takes on redo cases that other hospitals flat out refused because operating through old scar tissue near the heart terrifies most surgeons. People referred from smaller cities for complex cases say his forty-three years of experience show in how calmly he handles situations where one wrong move changes everything.