Dr. Bijoy G Rajbanshi
Principal Consultant and HoD
Bijoy G Rajbanshi is an experienced heart surgeon and is the Principal Consultant and Head of the Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at Nepal Mediciti Hospital. He is also the President of the Cardiac Society of Nepal which is the largest organization of physicians that deal with heart diseases in the country.
He has done his MBBS from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and MS in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery from BSM Medical University, Bangladesh. He did his Clinical Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery from the prestigious Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA and Advanced Clinical Fellowship in Adult Cardiac Surgery with a focus on Aortic and Endovascular Surgery from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
He has performed more than 6000 heart surgeries and has been instrumental in establishing and performing complex heart surgeries such as surgeries of the aorta in Nepal including surgeries with stoppage of circulatory or circulatory arrest.
He has been instrumental in conducting educational programs related to heart disease in the country and also in collaboration with various prestigious institutions such as Mayo Clinic, USA, and several prestigious institutions from the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He has served as the Vice–President of the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology and is a Council Member of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia.
He has done multiple presentations on various aspects of heart disease and surgeries at National as well as international conferences in the United States, Europe, and all over Asia. He has multiple publications in reputed national and international journals and has also written chapters in heart surgery textbooks.
His special interests include Adult Cardiac Surgery – Coronary artery bypass, Valve surgery, mitral valve repair, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, minimally invasive surgery, and surgeries for various aortic diseases in adults, children, and infants.
Specialization and Expertise:
- Coronary Artery Bypass, Coronary Artery Disease
- Heart Valve Surgery, Heart valve repair, Heart Valve Replacement
- Minimal Invasive Surgery
- Pericardiectomy
- Aortic Root Surgery, Aortic surgery, Aortic Arch Surgery, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Marfan Syndrome, Aneurysm Surgery, Coarctation of Aorta
- Hypertrophied cardiomyopathy
- Heart Transplant
- Vascular Surgery
Education
Area of Focus
Language spoken
- ENGLISH
- NEPALI
- HINDI
- BENGALI
- Lakhey PJ, Rajbanshi BG, Singh YP, Vaidya P, Khakurel MK. Splenic Abscess: an experience at TUTH. J Society of Surgeons of Nepal 1999;2:50-52
- Rajbanshi BG, Rodrigues E, Lynch JJ, Gulati R, Sundt TM 3rd. Coronary artery spasm after Cryo Maze III procedure. Ann Thorac Surg.2011;92(5):1884-7
- Rajbanshi BG, Phillips SD, Burkhart HM. Minimally invasive surgical resection of right atrial aneurysm. J Am Coll Cardiol.2011;58(23):e41
- Rajbanshi BG, Hughes JE, Desimone DC, Maleszewski JJ, Baddour LM, Dearani JA. Surgical excision of invasive aspergillosis of the right ventricle presenting as intractable ventricular arrhythmia and right ventricular mass. Mayo Clinic proceedings Mayo Clinic. 2012;87(9):926-8. Epub 2012/09/11.
- Rajbanshi BG and Dearani JA. Minimally Invasive Surgical Correction of Scimitar Syndrome, 2013. Available at http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/videosection/videos/vg2013_rajbanshi_scimitar.html
- Rajbanshi BG, Burkhart HM, Schaff HV, Daly RC, Phillips SD, Dearani JA. Surgical Strategies for Anomalous Origin of Coronary artery from Pulmonary artery in Adults. J Thorac Cavdiovasc Surg. 2014 Jul;148(1):220-4
- Elefteriades JA, Rajbanshi BG. Surgical Management of an Aneurysm in the Aortic Arch and Thoracic Aorta. In:Rossingnol, Chang J, Grundy (eds). Encyclopedia of Life support Systems. EOLSS Publishers, 2013.
- Rajbanshi BG, Suri RM, Nkomo VT, Dearani JA, Daly RC, Burkhart HM, Stulak JM, Joyce LD, Li Z, Schaff HV. Influence of mitral valve repair versus replacement on the development of late functional tricuspid regurgitation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Nov;148(5):1957-62. Epub 2014 Apr 23.
- Ziganshin BA, Rajbanshi BG, Tranquili M, Fang H, Rizzo JA, Elefteriades JA. Straight Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Cerebral Protection During Aortic Arch Surgery: Safe and Effective. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Sep;148(3):888-98.
- Rajakaruna C, Rodriguez GM, Rajbanshi BG, Ziganshin BA, Elefteriades JA. Novel technique for delayed sternal closure: soft tissue approximation with substernal bridge. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.2014 Nov;148(5):2427-9.
- Rajbanshi BG, Charilaou P, Ziganshin BA, RajakarunaC, Maryann T, Elefteriades JA. Management of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms. J Card Surg. 2015 Sep;30(9):701-6
- Charilaou P, Ziganshin BA, Peterss S, Rajbanshi BG, Rajakaruna C, Zaza KU, Salloum MN, Mukherjee A, Tranquilli M, Rizzo JA, Elefteriades JA. Current Experience with Acute Type B Aortic Dissection: Validity of the Complication-Specific Approach in the present era. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Oct 27, Epub ahead of print.
- Sharma P, Shakya U, Sayami G, Rajbanshi BG. Lipoblastoma: an unusual tumor of the left ventricle. Eur J Cardiothroac Surg. 2016 May;49(5)e147-8
- Rajbanshi BG, Gautam NC, Pradhan S, Sharma A, Ghimire RK, Joyce LD. Complex Cervical Aortic Arch with Hypoplasia: A simple Solution to a Complex Problem. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Jul;102(1):e27-29
- Sharma A, Panthee N, Bajrachary SM, Rajbanshi BG, Koirala RR, Sharma J, Pokharel JN. Predictors of in-hospital mortality following mitral or double valve replacement for rheumatic heart disease. Nepalese Heart J 2016;13(2):25-27
- Rajbanshi BG, Elefteriades JA. Management of Valvular Heart Disease – Surgical Perspective. In: Chang PF (eds), The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases. EOLSS Publishers, 2017.
- Acharya A, Koirala R, Rajbhandari N, Sharma J, Rajbanshi BG. Anterior Pericardiectomy for Post Infective Constrictive Pericarditis; intermediate term outcomes. Ann Thorac Surg. 2018;106(4):1178-1181
- Rajbanshi BG, Joshi D, Pradhan S, Gautam NG, Timala R, Shakya U, Sharma A, Biswakarma G, Sharma J. Primary surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta in adolescents and adults: intermediate results and consequences of hypertension. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019;55(2):323-330.
- Joshi D, Timala R, Pradhan S, Sharma J, Rajbanshi BG, Gautam N, Koirala R, Sharma A. Prevalence of Coronary Artery disease in Rheumatic patients undergoing valve surgeries in Nepal. J Cardiol Vasc Res. 2018;2(3):1-4
- Sharma A, Sharma A, Acharya A, Aryal D, Rajbanshi BG, Bhattarai PR, Regmi A, Ghimire A. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in aluminum phosphide poisoning in Nepal: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2018;12(1):311
- Rajbanshi BG, Rajbhandari N, Pradhan S, Karki A, Gyawali P, Lakhey M, Sharma D, Sharma A. Submitral Anuerysm: an unusual aneurysm of the left ventricle. Ann Thorac Surg.2019;108(1):e11-e13.
- Rajbanshi BG, Acharya A, Neupane P, Gautam M, Sharma A, Kayastha B, Ghimira RK, Sharma R, Joshi LN. Double Aortic arch with coarctation of aorta in an Adolescent: Unraveling the vascular ring. Aorta.2020; 8(6):169 - 171
- INCAPS COVID Investigators Group. International Impact of COVID-19 on the Diagnosis of Heart Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol.2021;77(2):173-185
- INCAPS-COVID Investigators Group. Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Testing in the United States versus the rest of the world: The INCAPS-COVID Study. 2021.JACC Cardiovasc Imaging;10:S1936-878X
- Jha DK, Lakhey S, Rana R, Rajbanshi BG, Acharya A, Rai P, Chitrakar N, Thakur J. Common Illiac artery and vein injury associated with Pelvic fracture. Nepal Ortho Assoc J. 2021;7(1):29-31
- President, Cardiac Society of Nepal, August 2021 - till date
- Member, Cardiac Society of Nepal
- Member, Nepal Medical Association
- Member, Executive Committee for Global Outreach Program, CTS Net Organization, Chicago, United States of America
- General Secretary, Cardiac Society of Nepal; 2015 – 2019.
- President-Electret, Cardiac Society of Nepal; 2019 – July 2021
- Member, Asian Society of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery; April 2016 – till date.
- Vice President, American Nepal Medical Foundation, May 2017 – 2019
- Vice President, Executive Committee Member, Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology, 2017 – 2019
- Council Member, Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia, 2017 till date.
- Member, Society of Surgeons of Nepal.
