About Dr. Tarun Praharaj

Dr. Tarun Kumar Praharaj has been associated with BM Birla Heart Research Centre since 1990. He has been working as a full time Senior Consultant of Interventional Cardiology and is the Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in BM Birla Heart Research Centre. He has completed his post-graduation fellowship in Adult Cardiology and Clinical Research,
Fellowship in Invasive Cardiology from Philippines Heart Centre. Dr. Praharaj is also a fellow of The American College of Cardiology.

Dr Praharaj was the preferred consultant to treat personalities like Nobel Laureate, Mother Teresa, in 1993 and 1996. He has performed stent angioplasty on a 94 yrs old man, one of the oldest surviving patients in India who celebrated his 101 st birthday on Oct 2011. He implanted a drug- coated stent on 75 years old lady on 7 th June 2002 which was launched for the first time in India on that very day. He has also performed primary angioplasty on a patient aged 87 years successfully. His areas of expertise are Coronary Angioplasty, Primary Angioplasty, Stenting, valvuloplasty, high risk and complex coronary interventions.

Education

MD(1988) – Philippines Heart Centre
MBBS(1983) – VSS Medical College
FACC

Work & Experience

30 + years of experience

Honours Awards

Receipt of Mother Teresa International Award
Lifetime Achievement Award, Rotary Club of Calcutta
Recipient of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan Award
Receipt of Swami Vivekananda and Vidya Alankar Award

Research Publications

Non-Invasive Assessment of Pulmonary Artery pressure in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis (Abstract)-Echocardiography September 1987, New York
Global Reduction in Thallium uptake by Myocardium at peak exercise With Normal Coronary Arteries (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, July – Aug 1990
Prevalance rate of Coronary lesion (concentric, eccentric Type 1, type II) In Unstable Angina (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, July – Aug 1991
Correlation of Coronary Angiography with Stree Thallium in Six hundred cases (Abstract) – Indian Heart Journal, July – Aug 1991
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty for totally Occluded Coronary Arteries (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, July – August 1992
Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty using Inoue Balloon (Abstract) Accepted for INDIAN HEART J0URNAL – 8^th December 1995
Balloon Angioplasty versus rotational atherectomy for the treatment Of lung lesions (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, December 1995
The relevance of routine Hepatitis C screening before Cardiac Catheteri-Zation (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, November 1997
New VODA guiding catheter for performing angioplasty on Left Circumflex Artery (observational study) Abstract- Indian Heart Journal, December 1997
A study of the anti-ischaemic effect of Trimetazidine during Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (Abstract)- Indian Heart Journal, November 1997
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty with Stenting Of Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Originating from Left Sinus Valsalva using the Voda Guiding Catheter: A report of two cases. Indian Heart Journal, 2001
Published an article on “Therapy with stem cells in Cardiology” in a book titled “cardiology Update , Volume III, Oct, 2007(Assam Cardiologycal Society)
Published an article on ‘CARDIAC INTERVENTION IN A NONAGENARIAN-A 7YEAR FOLLOW UP : A CASE REPORT, Journal of Indian College of Cardiology 6(2016),pp.45-48