Make your heart healthy with one of India’s leading cardiologists: Dr Maitri Chauhdari

Dr Maitri Chauhdari is a highly qualified and one of the best Paediatric Cardiac Surgeons in Bangalore with over 15 years of expertise. Her areas of expertise include foetal and transitional haemodynamic evaluation in pregnancy, neonatal cardiology and the management of life-threatening cardiac emergencies, structural heart disease and its treatment with surgical and non-surgical modalities, acquired heart diseases in children, such as Kawasaki disease, paediatric syncope, paediatric hypertension, and paediatric arrhythmias, and grown-up cardiology. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, and Kannada.

After completing her MBBS, she received her MD from S.B.C Medical College in Cuttack, and she also completed her fellowship with the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India. She is an active member of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography, Cardiology Society of India-Karnataka Chapter, and the Bangalore Paediatric Society. She is currently associated with Manipal Hospital (Old Airport Road) Bangalore.

Dr Maitri Chauhdari has received many honours including, the Savitri Shrivastav award for best imaging modality at the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India annual conference in 2017, Natesa Pandian award for best Echocardiography Imaging at the Indian Academy of Echocardiography annual conference in 2013 and First prize in postgraduate neonatology quiz at the National Neonatology Forum in East Zone in 2002. She has trained trainees in functional echocardiography in the Neonatal ICU, advanced foetal and 3D echo workshops for cardiologists at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, and Echo training for GE engineers. She has also practised philanthropy through Community outreach OPD in paediatric cardiology in remote North-East India.

She has many publications to her name including :

• Dilated superior vena cava in Fetal echocardiographic three-vessel view: what lies ahead? Chaudhuri M, et al. Heart Asia.2018
• Giant ductal pseudoaneurysm in infancy: a lesson learnt the hard way. Chaudhuri M, et al.
• BMJ Case Rep.2017
• Hypertension, Stroke and Abdominal Bruit: A Cryptic Extracranial Moyamoya! Chaudhuri M, et al. Indian J Paediatrics.2016
• Catastrophic presentation of anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery in a neonate- an interesting differential! Chaudhuri M, et al. Paediatric Cardiology 2012
• Percutaneous recanalization of an occluded hepatic vein in a difficult subset of paediatric Budd -Chiari syndrome. Chaudhuri M, et al. Paediatric Cardiology 2012
• Percutaneous device closure of a bifurcated inferior vena cava and completion of the Kawashima procedure for the “difficult” univentricular heart. Chaudhuri m, et al. Paediatric Cardiology 2011
• Ductal aneurysm masquerading as non-resolving pneumonia: A challenging differential! Chaudhuri M, et al. Annals of Paediatric Cardiology 2010
• Vascular rings and slings in the textbook of paediatric cardiology 1st edition. Editor IB Vijalayalaxmi. Publisher Jaypee Brothers
• Single Ventricle in the textbook of paediatric cardiology 1st edition. Editor IB Vijalayalaxmi
• Parental awareness website on Paediatric Cardiology: www. baby heart. in from 2010

Know about arrhythmia

An arrhythmia is an issue with the heart's rate or rhythm. The heart might beat excessively fast, too slow, or in an irregular rhythm during an arrhythmia. Tachycardia is a condition in which the heart beats excessively quickly. Bradycardia is a condition in which the heart beats too slowly.

Changes in heart tissue and activity, as well as the electrical signals that govern your heartbeat, create arrhythmia. Damage from disease, injury, or genetics can produce these changes. Although there are usually no symptoms, some persons experience an erratic heartbeat. You could feel light-headed, disoriented, or have trouble breathing.

Treatments

If bradycardia is caused by an underlying disease, a doctor must first address the underlying disorder. If no underlying issue is discovered, the doctor may recommend that a pacemaker be implanted. A pacemaker is a tiny device implanted beneath the skin of the chest or abdomen by a specialist to help manage irregular heart rhythms. Electrical pulses are used by pacemakers to cause the heart to beat at a consistent minimum rate.

Tachycardia can be treated in several ways:

• Cardioversion: An electric shock or medicine may be used by the doctor to restore the heart's normal rhythm.
• Ablation therapy involves the insertion of one or more catheters into the inner heart by a surgeon. They insert the catheters in regions of the heart where they believe the arrhythmia is originating from. They will then be used by the surgeon to remove tiny portions of damaged tissue, which will usually cure the arrhythmia.
• Coronary bypass surgery: The coronary arteries are grafted with arteries or veins from other parts of the body. This allows the circulation to bypass any narrowed areas and enhance blood flow to the heart muscle.