Dr. Ajay J Swamy

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Brief Profile:

Air Cmde (Dr.) Ajay J Swamy (retd.) is at present working as Senior Consultant Cardiology at KIMS, Hyderabad, India. He obtained his MBBS and MD at the Armed Forces Medical college and his DM Cardiology at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has served the Armed Forces for 30 years. He has held appointments of Prof Cardiology at Army Hospital (R and R), New Delhi, AFMC, Pune and was Dean academics at Command Hospital, (Air Force), Bangalore, before joining KIMS. He has 20 years of experience as an interventional cardiologist and has done over 16,000 procedures over the last two decades.

He has extensive expertise with complex coronary work, including intracoronary imaging(OCT and IVUS), physiology (FFR, RFR, IMR), structural heart disease, including TAVR and paravalvular leaks, aortic intervention, and all aspects of pacemaker therapy. He is a teacher and proctor for all compolex procedures and is often sought out for his expertise.

Dr. Ajay Swamy has more than 50 publications in national and international journals, contributed chapters to textbooks in cardiology, and received best paper awards in international and national meetings. He is a Member of several national and international organizations, including the Cardiology Society of India, the American College of Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiac Intervention.

He is a regular faculty in the national and international meetings and CME programs. He conducts teaching workshops on all aspects of interventional cardiology, including OCT, rotablation, CTO , Left main disease intervention, and TAVR. He has organized many national and International meetings in cardiology.

Qualifications:

• M.B.B.S from AFMC, Pune
• MD from AFMC, Pune
• DM Cardiology) from PGIMER, Chandigarh
• FACC (Fellow of American College of Cardiology)
• FSCAI (Fellow of Society for Cardiac Interventions)

Experience:

• PROFESSOR, Dept. of Cardiology, Army Hospital (R andR) , New Delhi 2014-2016
• Professor, Dept of Cardiology, AFMC, Pune (MH CTC), 2016-2021
• Assoc Prof., Dept of Cardiology, Army Hospital (R and R), 2007-2009
• Assoc Prof., Dept of Cardiology, Command Hospital (Air Force), 20092014
• International Senior scientist Fellowship from ICMR 2016
• Appointed Professor of Cardiology by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS, Nasik) wef Feb 2017 
• Recognized DM & DNB cardiology Examiner and MCI / DNB inspector for accreditation. 
• Proctored and trained several Interventional Cardiologists on the latest imaging and physiology and structural heart disease and newer treatment modalities like – TAVI, Rotational Atherectomy, intravascular imaging, coronary physiology, CRT Device Implantation, Bifurcation Angioplasty, Left Main Angioplasty through a series of workshop programs 
• Executive member of Cardiology Society of India for 2 yrs 2017-19 
• Leadership to the multiple Hospitals for seamless delivery of patient care in accordance with established SOPs 

• Swamy AJ. Newer insights into the Pathogenesis and Management of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. Medicine Update Association of Physicians of India 2003. Ed: Sidhartha Das. Pub. Association of Physicians of India. 2003; 13:238- 242
• Swamy AJ, Jetley V, Chadha DS, Malani SK, Nikhil Kumar, Sofat S, Mathew OP, Sandhu MS, Dutta S NO REFLOW: the “Achilles Heel” of Percutaneous intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes.Cardiology Update. Critical care in Cardiac surgery and Cardio-respiratory diseases. MH (CTC) update publication Jan 2008.
• Mathew OP, Swamy AJ. Universal definition of MI. Update book Cardiology Society of India 2008 Ed. VK Bahl. Pub. Cardiology Society of India 2008;
• Swamy AJ, Chadha DS, Anil Kumar. Hybrid Procedures in the Treatment of Paediatric Congenital Heart Disease. Cardiology CME update book; CH(EC), Kolkata, Nov 2010
• Swamy AJ , Anil Kumar, Chadha DS. Acute myocardial infarction- many things to many people. What about a universal definition? Cardiology CME update book; Army Hospital Research and Referral , New Delhi; Mar 2011.
• Swamy AJ, Chadha DS, Anil Kumar, Keshavamurthy G. Cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections. Update book. Sepsis. CME ; CH (AF), Bangalore; July 2011.
• Swamy AJ, Aggarwal N, Bharadwaj P. Sarat Chandra, AJ Swamy, Saha Deepak. Mitral Stenosis in Pregnancy: The Last Straw on the Camel’s Back! . CSI Cardiology update 2018 eds Ramakrishnan S, Yadav Rakesh, Goswami Kewal Naik Nitish. Pub. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. 2019/01/01 https://doi.org/10.5005/jp/books/18084_140 .Textbook of Cardiology editor:  https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429025396 

Journal Articles:

• A Bahl, Ajay Swamy*, Y Sharma and Nanda Kumar. Isolated noncompaction of left ventricle presenting as peripartum cardiomyopathy. International Journal of Cardiology 2006;109:422
• AJ Swamy*, M Rohit, A Bahl, YP Sharma, KK Talwar. Intravenous Nicorandil in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Indian Heart Journal 2005: 57:450
• Vijayvergiya R, Swamy AJ*, Grover A. Buddy wire Technique: A simple technique for treating Calcified Lesion during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A case report. Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2006; 18 (4), e129 -130
• Jetley V, Swamy AJ*, Chadha DS, Malani SK, Nikhil Kumar, Sofat S, Mathew OP, Sandhu MS, Dutta S. Rotablation in the drug-eluting stent era: old technique, newer utilities. Indian Heart Journal 2007; 58;396
• Jetley V, SK Malani, Y K Arora, S Sofat, Ajay Swamy*, OP Mathew. Unprotected left main coronary artery angioplasty: Experience at a tertiary care center. Indian Heart Journal 2008; 59: 410 (Abstract of 60th Annual Conference of Cardiology Society of India at Chennai in Dec 2008)
• AJ Swamy*, OP Mathew, Y K Arora, V Jetley, SK Malani, S Sofat. Angiographic characteristics of Coronary artery disease in young (<30 yrs) Indians. . Indian Heart Journal 2008; 59: 359 (Abstract of 60th Annual Conference of Cardiology Society of India at Chennai in Dec 2008)
• Bahl A, Swamy AJ*, Harshvardhan, Talwar KK. Electrocardiographic changes of hyperkalemia during paced rhythm. Indian Heart J 2009; 61(1):93-4 PMID 19729697
• Subash Chandra, Chadha DS, Swamy AJ*. "Transcollateral" Renal Angioplasty for a Completely Occluded Renal Artery. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol () (2010) PMID 20512332
• Chadha DS, Swamy AJ*, Malani SK, Ganjoo RK, Mathew OP. Impact of body mass index on left ventricular function. MJAFI. 2009;65:303–307
• Swamy AJ* et al. Drug eluting balloon: initial experience in patients with in-stent restenosis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mjafi.2014.01.001
• Kumar V, Banerjee A, Aggarwal N, Garg S, Swamy A*. Atrial and ventricular septal defects device closure in a child in one session. Indian Heart J. 2016 May-Jun;68(3):370-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2016.03.015. Epub 2016 Mar 29. PubMed PMID: 27316495; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4912531.
• Vivek Kumar, N Aggarwal, A Swamy*, S Garg. Disappearing high velocity severe tricuspid regurgitation following ventricular septal defect device closure. Indian Heart Journal (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.01.001
• A.J. Swamy*, P. Bharadwaj, Balbir Singh, D.S. Chadha, N. Bajaj . Rotablation for Left Main bifurcation disease: Safe and effective! Indian Heart Journal 69S (2017) S11–S36 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.051
• P. Bharadwaj, A.J. Swamy*, Balbir Singh, D.S. Chadha, N. Bajaj . LM bifurcation PCI: Single-center experience with 51 cases: Safe and effective in the short term. Indian Heart Journal 69S (2017) S11S36.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.052
• AVS Anil Kumar, PG Kumar, Ajay Swami*, Yateendra Dinker. Evaluation of changes in perfusion defect and left ventricular systolic function using Tc-99m Tetrofosmin single photon emission computed tomography over 3 months period in patients of Acute Myocardial Infarction undergoing primary angioplasty. Nucl Med Rev 2018; 21, 1: 1–7
• Swamy AJ*, Bharadwaj P, Ajay Joshi , IS Monga, Balbir Singh. Left atrial appendage closure: Effective alternative to oral anticoagulants for non-valvular AF in selected patients. Indian Heart Journal 70S (2018) S95-96.
• Swamy AJ*, Bharadwaj P, IS Monga, Ajay Joshi, Balbir Singh. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: safe and effective (a single center experience of 26 cases). Indian Heart Journal 70S (2018) S93-93.
• SS Iyengar, Manish Bansal, JPS Sawhney, Gurpreet Wander, SN Narasingan, K Sarat Chandra, Prabhakar D, Tiny Nair, B Krishnakumar, Nitin Deshpande, Neil Bardoloi, Sadananda Shetty, Nagaraj Desai, AK Pancholia, Ajay Swamy*. Appropriate use of PCSK9 Inhibitors in India. JAPI 2019, vol. 69 (9)
• Satish Kumar Mishra, Kamal Pathak, Ajay Swamy*, Mathew Jacob, Sachin Shouche, Arijit Ghosh. Monitored Anesthesia Care vs. General Anesthesia for Trans Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): Our Initial Experience J Anesth Clin Res 2019, 10:6
• Keshavamurthy Ganapathy Bhat, Kamal Hasan Kandanuru, Anil Kumar, Ajay Jagannath Swamy, Mahesh Nalin Kumar, Prafull Sharma. Coronary Artery Disease in Young Indians: A Different Entity Int J Med Res Prof.2019 Sept; 5(5); 1-10
• Sonune N, Swamy A, Aggarwal N. Correlation of optical coherence tomography-derived variables with fractional flow reserve (≤0.8) in patients with coronary artery stenosis: An observational study. Int J Cardiovasc Acad 2020;6:106-9.
• Keshavamurthy G, Ratheesh Kumar, Ajay Kumar Dabas, Davinder Singh Chadha, Ajay Jagannath Swamy*, Amitoj Singh Chadha. Femoral artery access site closure with perclose suture mediated device in coronary interventions. Indian Heart Journal 73 (2021) 180e184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2020.12.014
• Nair R, Sud R, Swamy A, Patra V. Unmasking Previously unrecognized peripheral arterial disease in patients with coronary artery disease using continuous wave Doppler imaging: Does the presence of peripheral arterial disease influence the clinicopathological profile of coronary artery disease? An Indian study. Biomed Biotechnol Rec 2021;5:50-4.
• Ajay Jagannath Swamy*, Rajeev Chauhan, G. Keshavamurthy, Primary percutaneous coronary intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recalibrate, restart and relearn, Medical Journal Armed Forces India, Volume 77, Supplement 2,2021, PagesS520-S521, ISSN0377-1237, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mjafi.2021.06.008
• Gupta A, Shrivastava A, Chhikara S, et al. Optical Coherence Tomography Predictors of SIde Branch REstenosis after unprotected Left Main bifurcation angioplasty using double kissing crush technique (OP-SIBRE LM Study). Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2024; 103: 51-60. doi:10.1002/ccd.30915
• Singh N, Swamy AJ, Bajaj N, Gupta A. Management of a broken guiding catheter tip: cut and fix technique. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2023; 102: 495-498. doi:10.1002/ccd.30768

• Brig JC Chaterji award for best post-graduate student in 1996 
• Ranjana Vij medal for best research work in MD Dec 1999 
• Brig IP Bhalla Gold Medal for coming first in MD Dec 1999 
• Best paper APICON 2001 (Pulmonary embolism) Jan 2001
• VK Saini gold medal for best research work in DM Dec 2006  (Awarded by HE President of India Dr APJ Kalam) 
• Commendation by Chief of the Air Staff Oct 2010 
• Chief of Naval staff award for best research work Feb 2014

• Best case:
South Zone Interventional Conference: 2012 
• Best Case:
Indo-Japanese CTO Conference (IJCTO) 2016 
• Best Case:
Paravalvular leak: NIC mid-term meet: 2017