About Dr. Z S Meharwal

• Dr. Z.S. Meharwal is a Best Cardiac Surgeon, and he is a part of the founding team of Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
• He has worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at prestigious King’s College Hospital in London.
  He has more than 30 years of experience in cardiac surgery with over 30000 surgeries to his credit, including complex heart operations.
• He is a pioneer in many new cardiac operations in the country. Dr Meharwal is amongst few cardiac surgeons performing heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices implantation.
• Dr Meharwal has been actively involved with teaching and training. He is the Programme Director of DNB Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He has trained many cardiac surgeons in India and abroad who are now independent cardiac surgeons at different centres.

Special Interest

• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
•  Off pump coronary artery bypass surgery
• Surgery of ascending aortic aneurysms and dissections
• Valve repair and replacement
• Carotid endarterectomy
• CABG in patients with poor ventricular function
• Major Vascular surgery
• Surgery for heart failure including heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices

Treatment

Awards

• Citation Award by President of India Sri APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Meeting – 2002.
• Listed in Marquis who is  in the world 2005 Saharanpur Aditya Samman – by Govt of UP for contribution in Medical Field – 2005
• Entered into Limca Book of Records-2008 for performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery on 94 year old man who is the oldest patient to undergo CABG

Professional Affiliations

• Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons
• Cardiological Society of India
• International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Meharwal ZS, Dubey PC & Agarwal SK. Intraoperative gram staining of bile for identification of biliary microflora as a guide to prevent postoperative septic complications after biliary Surgery, 1985. Thesis for M.S. (General Surgery: Lucknow University, 1985.
• Meharwal ZS, Sinha KN, and Kumar A. Clinicopathological study of peripheral ischema due to arteritis. Thesis for M.Ch. (Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery): Lucknow University, 1987.
• Meharwal ZS, Trehan N, Kohli VM and Sharma VK. Endarterectomy as an adjunct to coronary artery bypass grafting: our experience. Indian Journal of Thoracic an Cardiovascular Surgery1992;8(2):88-91.
• Meharwal ZS, Sharma VK, Kohli VM, Mishra A, Trehan N. Composite graft replacement of ascending aorta and aortic valve. Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1993;9(1):21-25.

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