Dr. Ravi Shankar Shetty is an accomplished Cardio Thoracic and Transplant Surgeon with over two decades of experience in the field. He holds an MBBS and MS (General Surgery) from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bengaluru, where he secured the 1st rank in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences for his MS. He further specialized with a M.Ch. in Cardiothoracic Surgery from Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiac Sciences and holds an MBA in Hospital Management from Pilani.
With a career marked by significant achievements, including performing Karnataka’s first pediatric cardiac transplant, Dr. Shetty has successfully performed over 8,000 cardiac surgeries.
- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
- Aortic surgeries
- Valve repairs
- Off-pump and redo coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG)
- Congenital heart disease corrections
- Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)
- Cardiac and renal transplants
- Special areas of interest in Cardiac surgery are minimally invasive cardiac surgery
- Aortic surgeries
- Valve repairs
- Congenital heart disease corrections, and off-pump and redo CABGs, ECLS (Extracorporeal Life Support), Cardiac and Renal transplant.
- Presented more than thirty papers at various conferences in India and abroad
- First Prize in paper presentation Surgical Society of Bangalore– Surgical management of thyroid malignancy June 1998
- Nagamalesh U.M, Ravi Shankar Shetty, Ravi Narayan, Anil Kumar, Ravi Naik, Sadath Uzma, Karthik Naidu K.C. Isolated supravalvular aortic stenosis with left ventricular diverticulum and cleft mitral valve: Surgical repair in adulthood, J Saudi Heart Assoc 2017 Oct; 29(4): 300–304
- Ramaiah AH, Das JK, Shetty K R. Ectatic coronary arteries in a patient with Noonan syndrome on Transoesophageal echocardiography. Ann Card Anaesth 2014; 17:139-40
- Ravi Shankar Shetty, Jameel Khan Thareen, Anil Kumar Hpalya Ramaiah, Ravi Narayan. Anomalous Origin of Single Coronary Artery From Pulmonary Artery: Serendipitous Diagnosis and Successful Surgical Treatment. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 2015, Vol. 6(1) 108-110 This is the 5th Successful case to be operated in the world.
- Giant Abdominal aortic aneurysm of uncommon etiology due to Behcet disease Jvs.2019.02067
- Aashish Reddy Bande, Pramila Kalra, P Venkatesh Rao, Ravi Shankar Shetty. A Rare Case Of Ectopic Mediastinal Parathyroid Carcinoma. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2017 Oct; 21(Suppl 2): S4–S79
- Ravi Shankar Shetty, Shilpa Rudradevaru. “Herniation of the heart – After minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, A Rare Complication” – Sent for publication to Asian Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
- Extended usage of IABP – Indications and outcomes – IACTS
- Facile Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting with a regular OT equipment (A Laryngoscope) – IACTS
- Homologous transfusion less routine cardiac surgery – is it possible? -IACTS
- Comparison of posteriobasal LV functions between posterior leaflet preservation and complete subvalvar preservation during MVR Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons Conference.
- LA function after electrocautery maze in MVR in Rheumatic Heart Disease – IACTS
- LVOT obstruction due to subaortic membrane and mitral accessory tissue – a case report –IACTS
- Member, Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.
- Member, Indian Medical Association, India.
- Member, Karnataka Medical Council, India
