ABOUT MYSELF

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Dr Gaurav Singal is a vibrant and dynamic personality who likes challenges. Impossible is the word that eggs him on to take on the challenging vascular surgery cases. He did his graduation and post graduation from Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana in 1999. He then left for the US where he developed interest in vascular surgery as he was associated with a vascular surgery team of Indian origin there in New York. He was so fascinated with this specialty that he came back home and got trained in this super specialty from the reputed NIZAMS INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES HYDERABAD in 2003.This institute is a deemed university and has the maximum vascular surgical patient workload in the country. He then worked for good 5 years till April 2009 in Krishna institute of medical sciences as a consultant vascular surgeon and was the only vascular surgeon there dedicated exclusively to peripheral vascular surgery. He not only established the vascular department there but gave a new dimension to vascular surgery as a whole. He had the privilege to work under two reputed vascular surgery centers in Germany Europe in 2006.He was sponsored by the VASCULAR SOCIETY OF INDIA for further training to hone his skills. He was in KREIS KRANKENHAUS (KKH) RENDSBURG GERMANY and then had the chance to meet and assist Dr W.SANDMANN in HEINERICH HEINE UNIVERSITAT, DUSSELDORF GERMANY (HHE) in 2006. Dr Sandmann is an authority in vascular surgery in Europe and his centre is a leading centre in Germany and Europe for difficult vascular surgeries.
Dr Gaurav has many firsts to his name like creating a unique dialysis access in an amputee which is first of its kind case in the world. He has to his credit operating on a 17 years old girl with multiple aneurysms of the aorta due to Takayasu Arteritis. Subtotal Aortic replacement was done in one sitting making it first of its kind case in the world. He has the largest series of composite vascular surgical procedures in contemporary times done in a calendar year wherein bypass of the heart and aortic bypass were done simultaneously in the same sitting. He also has to his credit doing surgeries for acute DVT .No other centre in India excels In doing venous Thrombectomies on a regular basis with good results.
His field of interest lies in carotid surgeries, aortic surgeries,vascular trauma, renovascular hypertension, mesenteric ischaemias, distal bypasses till the dorsalis pedis arteries to save the leg from amputations, venous thrombectomies, venous/dialysis access in difficult cases with or without synthetic graft with special interest in takayasu arteritis and redo vascular surgery cases. Varicose veins is another vascular disease he deals in.
There are very few qualified and trained vascular surgeons in India(approximately Thirty). Situation is no better in North India .
I would be happy to address problems concerning vascular surgery .