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Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi (India)

Dr Ganesan Karthikeyan is a clinical, interventional cardiologist and a Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, and a Senior International Fellow of the Population Health Research Institute, at McMaster University, Canada. He is an Associate Editor of Heart, Deputy Editor of Open Heart, and Co-Editor (South Asia) of the European Heart Journal. His research is mainly focused on cardiovascular diseases affecting low and middle income countries, including valvular heart disease, particularly rheumatic heart disease (RHD), mechanical valve thrombosis, anticoagulation, and indigenous drug-eluting stents. In his spare time he writes an occasional blog, and dabbles in photography. In addition to English and a couple of regional Indian languages, he knows a smattering of French.

Urgent surgery compared to fibrinolytic therapy for the treatment of left-sided mechanical valve thrombosis (SAFE-PVT): a randomized controlled trial

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Surgery

Session: Smaller trials and trial updates on shock, surgery, and other interventions

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INVICTUS program: Mortality in rheumatic heart disease

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Session: Registries on valvular heart disease

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Meet the Trialist - INVICTUS.

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Oral Anticoagulation

Session: Meet the Trialist - INVICTUS

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INVICTUS - Rivaroxaban versus VKA for rheumatic atrial fibrillation.

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Oral Anticoagulation

Session: HOT LINE SESSION 5

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The global burden of disease of rheumatic heart disease : current estimates.

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Session: Rheumatic heart disease: a global problem

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