Dr. Ayan Kar

Brief Profile

Dr. Ayan Kar is a young dynamic versatile interventional cardiologist with keen interest in interventional cardiology,intravascular imaging, cardiac imaging,echocardiography,strain imaging,structural heart diseases and heart failure therapies. He is an avid researcher, eloquent speaker and a dedicated team member.

Fields of Expertise

• Interventional Cardiology
• Echocardiography
• Heart Failure
• Cardiac
• Implantable Electronic Devices
• Strain Imaging,Intravascular
• Imaging
• Cardiac Intensive Care

Key Procedures Performed

• Radial Coronary angiograms
• Radial Coronary Angioplasty
• Radial Primary angioplasty
• transthoracic echocardiography
• pacemakers
• AICD
• CRT-D/P
• Invasive lines

Rare/Unique Skills

• Dorsal radial puncture
• Cephalic cut downs
• Radial primary angioplasty

Professional Memberships and Certifications

• Life Member,cardiological Society of India
• Member, Indian Association of Cardiac Imaging
• Associate Fellowship Of The European Society of Cardiology

Publications

• Platform oral presentation at the National Annual Conference of the Indian Academy of Neurology in Indore , Madhya Pradesh on Scrub Typhus presenting as An Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (Cited over 26 times in various papers)
• Published My thesis "A study to determine the High Density Lipoprotein levels in a tertiary care outpatient population and various factors affecting it"under the guidance of Dr.I.Sathyamurthy which is now accepted by the National Board of Examinations,New Delhi
• Kar A, Dhanaraj M, Dedeepiya D, Harikrishna K. Acute encephalitis syndrome following scrub typhus infection. Indian J Crit Care Med 2014;18:453-5
• Panja M, Kar A, Roy D, Kumar S, Panja M. Incidence of Ischemia in end stage renal disease patients with uremic cardiomyopathy in Eastern India. Indian Heart Journal. 2014(66):S79.
• Kar A, Panja M, Roy D, Kumar S. Prevalence of Vitamin D3 deficiency among patients undergoing angioplasty in a tertiary care centre in Eastern India. Indian Heart Journal. 2014(66):S71.
• Choudhury PD, Kar A, Roy D, Chatterjee D, Kumar S. Left atrial volume index as an indicator of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and hypertrophy. Indian Heart Journal. 2014(66):S68.
• Bhatacharyya D, Singh P, Majumder D, Kar A. TCTAP A-078 Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance Could Improve Outcomes in Proximal Left Anterior Descending Artery Interventions. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2015 May 5;65(17_S):S40-2.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Majumder D.TCTAP C-235 Intravascular Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Left Anterior Descending Artery Chronic Total Occlusion. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2016 May;67(16_S):S388-S389.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Mani S.TCTAP A-087 Small Caliber Coronary Arteries in Indian Female Diabetics Fact or Fiction? Insights from Intravascular Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2016 May; 67(16_S):S38-S40.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A. TCTAP A-088 In-Stent Restenosis: Insights and Outcomes Emerging from Intravascular Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 2016 May;67(16_S):S40-S42.
• Bhattacharyya D, Bera D, Kar A. TCTAP C-182 Intravascular Ultrasound Guided Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusion with Long Term Follow Up with Positive Vessel Remodeling. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017 Apr 25;69(16):S269-70
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Chakraborty S, Rana S. TCTAP A-142 Monitoring and Titration of Conventional and Newer Antiplatelet Therapies in Post PCI Patients Using Platelet Function Assay: A Tertiary Care Hospital Experience from Eastern India. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017 Apr 25;69(16):S78-9
• Bera D, Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Bhattacharya K. TCTAP C-175 Complete Reconstruction of the Left Coronary System in a Case of Severe Triple Vessel Disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017 Apr 25;69(16):S262-3.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Kumar D, Majumder D. TCTAP A-092 Is Distal Protection Device Required in All Saphenous Vein Graft Interventions: Insights from Intra-vascular Ultrasound. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017 Apr 25;69(16):S49-50
• Kar A,Roy D.Outcome trends and safety of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Octogenarians: Insights from a single centre in Eastern India.Indian Heart Journal(Special Supplement)2016 Dec
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A .TCTAP C-045 Novel Bifurcation Technique. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2018 Apr 24;71(16 Supplement):S112-3.
• Kar A, Roy D, Chatterjee D, Kar AK. Discrepancy in exercise tolerance of optimally treated dilated cardiomyopathy patients with comparable poor LV function. In EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL 2018 Aug 1 (Vol. 39, pp. 987-987). GREAT CLARENDON ST,OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND: OXFORD UNIV PRESS.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A. TCTAP A-082 Role of Intra-Vascular Ultrasound in Strategizing and Optimizing Bifurcation Stenting. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019 Apr 23;73(15 Supplement):S41-3.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Deshmukh B. TCTAP A-058 Dimensions of Non-diseased Left Main Coronary Artery: An Intravascular Ultrasound Assessment in South Asian Patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019 Apr 23;73(15 Supplement):S30.
• Bhattacharyya D, Kar A, Singh P, Goswami S. TCTAP C-036 Role of Cutting Balloon in Various Situations During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019 Apr 23;73(15 Supplement):S109.
• Goswami S, Bhattacharyya D, Kar A. TCTAP A-139 Factors Influencing Radial Artery Diameter in South Asians: Single Centre Observational Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019 Apr 23;73(15 Supplement):S73-4.

Posts Held in Past

• National Board Fellow in Cardiology
• NH-RTIICS

Languages spoken

English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada