Achievements

1.      Stood State 2^nd in the entrance examination conducted for MBBS Degree.

2.      State 1^st in the entrance exam for the M.D. General Medicine Degree.

3.      University 1^st in the examination for M.D Degree (Gen. Med).

4.      Passed MBBS, M.D & DM Degree examinations in the 1^st attempt.

5.      Post graduate teacher, examiner, conducted many CME's and training programmes.

6.      Took up the Interventional work after a big team of doctors left NIMS in 1993. Took it up as personal challenge and developed the department with limited number of doctors.

Presently maximum number of Angioplasties and Valvuloplasties are being done by this team in the entire south India.

7.      One among the few doctors in India who have experience in Intravascular Ultrasound, a technique to visualize the intima of the coronary arteries.

8.      Used JACKSON'S Coil for PDA closure for the first time in India

9.      Performed more than 20,000 Angioplasties and 8000 valvuloplasties, which very few doctors have done in India.

10.   Performed record number of 11 Angioplasties in a day.

11.   Conducted more than 200 free cardiac check-up camps in the various parts of Andhra Pradesh for propagating the message of Health education and identifying the Cardiac diseases in the rural population. In one such camp (Mandapet, East Godavari District AP) a record number of 6000 patients attended. Out of them 300 patients were followed up with the Angiograms, Angioplasties, Valvuloplasties and CABG's.

12.   Organised many workshops, CME and training programmes.

13.   Advisor for stent development technologies, Cordis USA and Toray Japan.

14.   Recipient of Vaidyasiromani Award in 2002.

15.   Transjugular ASD Device Closure done for the first time in the Country 2007, and 3rd case report in world literature.

16.   Performed Drug eluting balloon for first time in the country 2008

17.   Angioplasty & Stenting of Completely occluded carotid artery for the first time in India 2009.

18.   Dr D Seshagiri Rao was given the opportunity for the first time in India to do Live transmission for Capital Cardiovascular Conference Baltimore, USA in 2009. It is the second biggest interventional cardiology conference in USA. Around 1000 delegates attended from all over the world. Six centres were identified across the world to transmit the cases to the conference venue. NIMS is one of the centres and this is for the first time an Indian centre is given the opportunity.

Dr D Seshagiri Rao did two complex cases of angioplasty using new devices (Tornus & Angiosculpt) and transmitted to Baltimore U.S.A. This was highly appreciated by many famous interventional cardiologists in the world. It's a rare honour for NIMS to get the opportunity to conduct for the 2^nd consecutive year in 2010. So far, no other centre was given this opportunity to transmit cases for the second consecutive year. 

19.   In 2010, live transmission, Dr Seshagiri Rao did two cases, which were 'Left main bifurcation' & 'Instent restenosis'. So far, the standard approach for Left main bifurcation stenosis is coronary artrery bypass graft surgery (CABGs). Dr Seshagiri Rao demonstrated how these cases can be tackled non-surgically by angioplasty and stenting, using 'mini crush' technique. In the second case, he used two drug eluting balloons to clear instent restenosis which was widely appreciated.

20.   It was a great honour for NIMS and also for the entire country, that both the live transmissions had a high appreciation from interventional cardiologists across the world. He is invited as a faculty to this year's meeting (C3) in Orlando, USA.

21.   Recipient of the “Great Son of Soil” award from All India Conference of Intellectuals on August 21st 2010 awarded by Sri ESL Narasimhan, Honourable Governor of Andhra Pradesh.

22.   Recipient of “Boyi Bhimanna Medical Award” on 26th October 2010 in the presence of Bhimanna's wife Hymavathi and Vice-Chancellor of the university A. Bhoomaiah.

23.   Attended as a Course Co-Director for “India Live 2011” from 17th 20th February 2011 at Mumbai.

24. Recipient of the “The Pride of India Leadership Award” by The President of Mauritius his Excellency Sri Anerood Jugnauth at a Gala function organised at Hotel Inter continental, Mauritius on 15^th April 2011 for the outstanding service & Excellence in Cardiology from the State of Andhra Pradesh.

25.   Only two people are invited as Guest faculty from India for Complex cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics which will be held in Orlando, Florida in June 2011. Dr D Seshagiri Rao is one of them.

26.   In a Live Case Transmission done for ACVS (Advanced Cardiovascular Solutions) 2011 at HICC, Hyderabad. “The Drug eluting dedicated Bifurcation stent implantation” was shown for the first time in India by Dr D Seshagiri Rao and his team.

This case was done in Cath lab NIMS and transmitted Live to the International Convention Centre, Novatel, Hyderabad where about 300 delegates from India and abroad watched the procedure, performed by Prof. D Seshagiri Rao and his team. This was widely appreciated by the interventionalists who attended the conference.

 

Rare Cardiology surgery by NIMS doctors

Hyderabad: Prof. D Seshagiri Rao, Head of the Department of Cardiology, NIMS and a team of cardiologists implanted the Drug Eluting Bifurcation-stent for the first time in South India at Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Saturday.

This procedure was performed by Prof. D Seshagiri Rao and his team comprising Dr B Srinivas, Dr A Suresh and Dr Amarpal Singh as part of Live Transmission to the Advanced Cardiovascular Solutions (ACVS) Conference being held at HICC, Hyderabad. As many as 500 cardiologists from all over India witnessed this rare surgery.

The stent was implanted in a 45 year old Malleswar Rao to clear the blocks at the branching points of the main vessel and side branch.
The stent now helps to keep both blood vessels open. In this case, if an ordinary stent was placed it may have closed the side branches.

In the bifurcation stent, small sleeve of the stent extends into the side branch also to keep it open. Prof. D Seshagiri Rao said, “This Drug Eluting Bifuraction-stent technology had come into use this week only.

The stent was prepared by a French company and it had chosen me to perform this operation for the first time in South India. Though this technology is advanced, my previous experience of having performed many Bifurcation -stent surgeries stood me in good stead.
This new technology is very affordable and in the coming days would be used more often.”