Faraz Ahmed Farooqui

Brief Profile

Dr Faraz Ahmed Farooqui is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at PSRI Hospital. He has over 5 years of experience in Interventional Cardiology and has successfully performed over 5000 diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac interventions including elective coronary angioplasties, primary angioplasties, complex left main interventions, chronic total occlusions (CTOs), balloon mitral valvotomies (BMV). He has a keen interest in intracoronary imaging, PCI of calcified lesions and left main disease. He is highly skilled in performing rotational atherectomy, orbital atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy (IVL). In addition, Dr Faraz also specializes in Preventive Cardiology. He is also proficient in implanting permanent pacemakers, AICDs, biventricular pacemakers (CRT-P/ CRT-D), and atrial septal defect (ASD) device closure procedures.

Dr Faraz Ahmed Farooqui completed his MBBS from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad and subsequently finished his MD (Medicine) & DM (Cardiology) training from the prestigious AIIMS, New Delhi. He has previously worked as a Consultant Cardiologist at ARS Holy Heart Advanced Cardiac Care & Research Centre, Rohtak. Subsequently he worked as an Assistant Professor in Cardiology at Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital at New Delhi. He went on to train in Interventional Cardiology with a focus on complex coronary angioplasty at the National Heart Centre Singapore where he gained extensive experience in the field of Interventional Cardiology. He has published several papers in prestigious national and international journals. He has also presented his cases at important meetings including EuroPCR, SingLive and India Valves.

Qualification

FELLOWSHIP IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

DM (CARDIOLOGY)

MD (MEDICINE)

MBBS

Institute / Department

National Heart Centre Singapore

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

Year

2024

2019

2015

2012

Cardiological Society of India

American College of Cardiology

1st Position [IVUS Case Competition, Singapore (2 May 2024)]

1st Runner Up [Rajan Tandon Memorial Quiz, 2019, 33rd Annual Cardiological Society of India conference, Delhi Branch]

Best Orator [13th Torrent Young Scholar Award, 2019]

1st Runner-Up [13th Torrent Young Scholar Award, 2019]

Smt. Kirpal Kaur Medal for the best House Physician, 2013 [All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India]

Vijay A, Gupta P, Farooqui FA. Cauliflower Heart: Congenital Submitral Aneurysm. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2023 Mar 23;5(2):e220271. doi: 10.1148/ryct.220271. PMID: 37124645; PMCID: PMC10141320.
Biswas S, Soneja M, Makkar N, Farooqui FA, Roy A, Kumar A, Nischal N, Biswas A, Wig N, Sood R, Sreenivas V. N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide is an independent predictor of mortality in patients with sepsis. J Investig Med. 2022 Feb;70(2):369-375. doi: 10.1136/jim-2021-002017. Epub 2021 Oct 26. PMID: 34702775.
Sankardas MA, Ramakumar V, Farooqui FA. Of Occlusions, Inclusions, and Exclusions: Time to Reclassify Infarctions? Circulation. 2021 Aug 3;144(5):333-335. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055827. Epub 2021 Aug 2. PMID: 34339305.
Ramakumar V, Farooqui FA. Chest pain and dyspnea in a young man. Echocardiography. 2021 Sep;38(9):1684-1685. doi: 10.1111/echo.15161. Epub 2021 Jul 26. PMID: 34309070.
Khatiwada S, Boro H, Farooqui FA, Alam S. Endocrine causes of heart failure: A clinical primer for cardiologists. Indian Heart J. 2021 Jan-Feb;73(1):14-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2020.11.003. Epub 2020 Nov 11. PMID: 33714404; PMCID: PMC7961238.
Bhatt M, Soneja M, Farooqui FA, Singla P, Vikram NK, Biswas A, Roy A, Wig N. Myocarditis in admitted patients with dengue fever. Infection. 2020 Dec;48(6):899-903. doi: 10.1007/s15010-020-01500-w. Epub 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32780310.
Farooqui FA, Deepti S. Myxomatous Mitral-Valve Prolapse. N Engl J Med. 2019 Nov 21;381(21):e37. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm1904609. PMID: 31747730.
Farooqui FA. Constrictive pericarditis. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci 2019;5:111-5
Parashar NK, Bhasin D, Marotrao PS, Farooqui FA, Verma SK, Saxena A. Ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm: Clinical case presentation and management. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci 2017;3:109-14
Farooqui FA, Sharma SK, Kumar A, Soneja M, Mani K, Radhakrishnan R, Farooqui N. Endothelial function and carotid intima media thickness in obstructive sleep apnea without comorbidity. Sleep Breath. 2017 Mar;21(1):69-76. doi: 10.1007/s11325-016-1371-7. Epub 2016 Jun 25. PMID: 27344563.
Book Chapters:
Integrating data collection initiatives to national non-communicable diseases program, CSI Cardiology Update, 2019
Pulmonary Rehabilitation, API Textbook of Medicine, 10th Edition
Approach to Sleep Disorders, API Medicine Update, 2014

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