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The Journey of an Indian Pediatric Cardiologist

Dr. K. C. Chaudhuri Lifetime Achievement Award/Oration at AIIMS, New Delhi, September 2017

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The life journey of an Indian pediatric cardiologist, who bestowed considerable attention to the development of new knowledge and train/teach physicians around the world while providing care of patients with heart disease over a 45-y period, is reviewed. This appraisal focuses particular attention on the scientific contributions to the literature. These include spontaneous closure of physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defects, various issues related to a congenital heart defect namely, tricuspid atresia and transcatheter and, interventional pediatric cardiac procedures.

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The author wishes to thank his mentors, Dr. (Mrs.) Lavanya Mukherjee, Dr. Herman W. Lipow, Dr. Norman J. Sissman, Dr. Jerome Liebman and Dr. Leonard M. Linde for their excellent teachings, his parents, Late P.V.B. Krishna Rao and Late P. Savithramma for their love, encouragement and support and his wife, Hymavathi, children, Dr. Vijay K. Patnana, Dr. Madhavi Patnana and Radhika Patnana and their spouses, Dr. Radha V. Patnana, Dr. Ravi K. Chundru and Joseph D. Rodrigo for their unconditional support. The body of the works is also dedicated to patients and their parents who kindly served as volunteer research subjects in many clinical trials cited in this paper as well as to their physicians, nurses and cardiologists for their courage and wisdom to persuade their patients to partake in the above quoted clinical trials. These individuals, through their kind efforts, fostered to create a knowledge base which forms a foundation of great significance for generations of patients to come in the future. The author also thank Dr. I.C. Verma and the trustees of the Dr. K. C. Chaudhuri Foundation for bestowing me the honor of Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Syamasundar Rao, P. The Journey of an Indian Pediatric Cardiologist. Indian J Pediatr 84, 848–858 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-017-2452-8

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