Profile Summary

Medical Qualification: MD, FACC

Designation: Director, Cardiology

Years of experience: 50 years

Areas of expertise:

• Interventional Cardiology
• Complex Angioplasty- Chronic Total Occlusion
• Rotablation
• Left Main Bifurcation
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
• Laser Atherectomy
• Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS)

Introduction:

Dr. A. B. Mehta has rich experience of more than 50 years in the field of Cardiology. By this time, he has performed and supervised more than 20,000 Angioplasties and 100,000 Angiographies. 

His special interests are: Complex Angioplasty, Rotablation, Laser Atherectomy, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) & Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR). 

He has received the prestigious Padmashree Award from the President of India in 2004. He has received Life Time Achievement Award from many organisations apart from many other awards. Above all, he has received the Jaslok Ratna Award (2020); so far not given to anybody else in the history of Jaslok Hospital.

He has enjoyed the position of President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease (1981 & 1986) and the position of President of Cardiological Society of India (1998). 

He has done pioneering work and was responsible for placing First Drug Eluting Stent (DES) in the country in May 2002. He was one of the first ones to start Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI) and also published first systematic trial comparing Angioplasty with thrombolysis in Acute myocardial infarction from Sion Hospital. 

Awards/Publications:

Awards:

• Padmabhushan Award from the Govt. of India in 2024
• Padmashree Award from the Govt. of India in 2004
• Maharashtra Gaurav Award for the most outstanding contribution in Cardiology, by the Govt. of Maharashtra (2004)
• Distinguished Doctor Award presented by the Indian Medical Association, Mumbai Branch on the occasion of “Doctor’s Day”, 1^st July 2008
• Mahavir Mahatma Award for Oneness and towards social upliftment (Times Foundation, 2006)
• The CTO – Man of The Year Award, the First of its type, for the Indian Chapter of 2^nd Indo European Course on Revascularization (IECR/IEIC), presented at New Delhi on 20^th December 2008
• Life Time Achievement Award, International Integration Medical Council & Chemtech Foundation in 1999
• Andreas Gruentzig Memorial Award for dedication and contribution for the growth of Angioplasty in India
• Most outstanding Young Person of the Year Award by Jaycee in 1978 (Shared with Amitabh Bachhan)
• Appreciation Award by Association of Medical Consultants, Mumbai presented on Alkem Doctors’ Award Nite on 26^th June 2011 at Mumbai
• Golden Contribution Award received at AICT 2012 at New Delhi, on 6^th Oct. 2012
• Life Time Achievement Award at the 1^st IJCTO meet, at Mumbai on 8^th June 2013
• Felicitation Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Cardiology at MGM Hospital, Navi Mumbai on 26^th July 2017
• Life Time Achievement Award at the 19^th Annual Conference of Pediatric CSI at U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology & Research Centre, Ahmedabad on 15/09/2018
• Life Time Achievement Award at the CSI conference 2018 at BKC, Mumbai on 22^nd Nov 2018
• Life Time Achievement Award by the Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention Couse society at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi on 28^th June 2019 for his outstanding contribution to the field of Interventional Cardiology
• Received the prestigious “Dronacharya of Interventional Cardiology” award by Continuous Medical Education Award & Summit 2019, New Delhi By the Union Ministry, IHW-CNN18, & Omnicuris & State Medical Council Presidents on 8^th August 2019 at Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi
• Received Excellence in Cardiology Award at the The Times Healthcare Leaders Award 2021 on 25^th February 2021
• Excellence in Cardiology Award, vishesh puraskar from Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Smriti Pratishthan for exemplary contribution to the field of Cardiology on 24^th November 2021
• Received the First Jaslok Ratna Award felicitated by the Trustees & Management of Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, in the year 2020

Publications:

• Diagnostic utility and safety of intracoronary nicorandil as a hyperemic agent for the measurement of fractional flow reserve. A.B. Mehta, Rahul Chhabria, Nihar Mehta.  INDIAN HEART JOURNAL. November–December 2020, Vol. 72(6); 603-605
• Predictors for Success in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusions. INDIAN HEART JOURNAL. Available online on 6^th April, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2018.03.010AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta, Rahul Chhabria, et al
• Physiological Assessment of Obstructive Coronary Artery disease. Paradigm Shift from Anatomy to Physiology.  API UPDATE 2018. AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta
• Current Status of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.  INDIA LIVE UPDATE ON INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY 2017. Page 263-288. AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta
• Ostial Lesions – Tips and Tricks. A B Mehta, Nihar Mehta, Nilesh Tawade. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2015.  744-752
• Rescue Angioplasty – an Update. Nihar Mehta, A B Mehta. STEMI UPDATE 2015. 1009-1014
• Fractional Flow Reserve – Review article. A. B. Mehta, Nihar Mehta. CARDIOLOGY TODAY  – November – December 2013, Vol. XVII No 6, 257 – 263
• Left Main Stenosis – Need to Restart the Debate in 2011.  Ashwin B. Mehta, Nihar Mehta. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2011. 270 – 288
• Coronary Bifurcation Lesions – the Challenges.  A B Mehta, Satyajeet Suryawanshi, Nihar Mehta. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2012. 136 – 148
• Intraprocedural Stent Thrombosis – Case Series of a Rare Complication Managed Successfully – Nikesh Jain, Nilesh Tawade, Nihar Mehta, Ajit Desai, Ashwin Mehta. CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH. 2019, 3(2), 31-36
• An Unusual Case of Distant Coronary Artery Perforation. Ajit Desai, S.R. Handa, Nihar Mehta, Nilesh Tawade, A.B. Mehta. JOURNAL OF INDIAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY – 2014; 178 to 181
• Rotastenting in an Anomalously arising Right Coronary Artery after an ugly Dissection. A. B. Mehta, A. Desai, Nihar Mehta.  INDIAN HEART JOURNAL ; July – August 2013, 65(4) 469-473
• Extraction of A Fully deployed Left Main stent after six weeks – Case Report. A. B. Mehta, Ajit Desai, S. R. Handa, Nihar Mehta. JOURNAL OF INDIAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY; March 2013, 1-5
• Left Atrial Spindle Cell Sarcoma.  Nihar Mehta, Ajit Desai, Bharat Shivdasani, Satyajeet Suryawanshi, A.B.Mehta, A. Behranwala, Boman Dhabhar. INDIAN HEART JOURNAL ; July - August 2012 (64) 416-419
• Article on “Only ischemia guided PCI is appropriate PCI in stable CAD, myth or truth ?” in CSI Chapter book 2022
• Diagnostic utility and safety of intracoronary nicorandil as a hyperemic agent for the measurement of fractional flow reserve. A.B. Mehta, Rahul Chhabria, Nihar Mehta. INDIAN HEART JOURNAL. November–December 2020, Vol. 72(6); 603-605
• Predictors for Success in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusions. INDIAN HEART JOURNAL. Available online on 6^th April, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2018.03.010AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta, Rahul Chhabria, et al
• Physiological Assessment of Obstructive Coronary Artery disease. Paradigm Shift from Anatomy to Physiology.  API UPDATE 2018. AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta
• Current Status of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.  INDIA LIVE UPDATE ON INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY 2017. Page 263-288. AB Mehta, Nihar Mehta
• Ostial Lesions – Tips and Tricks. A B Mehta, Nihar Mehta, Nilesh Tawade. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2015
• Fractional Flow Reserve – Review article. A. B. Mehta, Nihar Mehta. CARDIOLOGY TODAY  – November – December 2013, Vol. XVII No 6, 257 – 263
• Left Main Stenosis – Need to Restart the Debate in 2011.  Ashwin B. Mehta, Nihar Mehta. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2011. 270 – 288
• Coronary Bifurcation Lesions – the Challenges.  A B Mehta, Satyajeet Suryawanshi, Nihar Mehta. CSI CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2012. 136 – 148
• Rotastenting in an Anomalously arising Right Coronary Artery after an ugly Dissection. A. B. Mehta, A. Desai, Nihar Mehta.  INDIAN HEART JOURNAL ; July – August 2013, 65(4) 469-473
• Extraction Of A Fully deployed Left Main stent after six weeks – Case Report. A. B. Mehta, Ajit Desai, S. R. Handa, Nihar Mehta. JOURNAL OF INDIAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY; March 2013, 1-5
• The effect of L.B.46, a new B-adrenergic blocking agent, on pulse and blood pressure at rest and after exercise in healthy volunteers : Journal of Association of Physicians of India: 1971
• Sites of congenital and surgical heart block as defined by His Bundle Electrocardiography: circulation: 1971
• An evidence of functioning Mahaim fibres in congenital heart blocks: Abstract:  Circulation November 1971
• Congenital A.V.Block with multiple ectopic pacemaker: Electrocardiographic & conduction system correlation: American journal of Cardiology 1972
• Conduction defects in surgically corrected cases of Tetralogy of Fallot: His Bundle Electrocardiographic study: presented at American Heart – Association meeting 1972
• Demonstration of dual A.V. Nodal pathway in the human heart a case report Journal of American College of Cardiology March 1974
• Clinical and Electrophysiological studies in RBBB and LAHB after repair of VSD and Tetralogy of Fallot.  Abstract Circulation October 1974
• Observation on Post-Surgical fascicular block – American Heart Association meeting – November 1974
• Benign Repetitive multifocal ectopic atrial tachycardia response to intra cardiac atrial pacing-American Heart Journal November 1974
• Surgical Bifasicular Block Circulation 52, 82, 1975
• Problems in Posterior Fascicular Block in proceedings of World Congress on Electro-Cardiology (Tata Press) 1975
• Electrophysiological & Antiarrhythmic effects of Beta Adrenergic Blockers, J.A.P.I.:1976
• Current status of Coronary Angiography, Jaslok hospital Bulletin: 1976
• A case of Heart Block Sepsis and Acute Renal Failure Jaslok Hospital Bulletin: 1977
• Our experience of cardiac catheterisation in new borns and children under 2 years, Jaslok hospital Bulletin: 1977
• A case of a young man with rapidly progressive pulmonary disorder, Jaslok hospital Bulletin: 1977
• Study of Morphology of Outflow Tract in Tetralogy of Fallet, Jaslok bulletin: 1978
• Electrophysiological Documentation of Atrioventricular conduction, Jaslok hospital Bulletin; 1978
• Sion thrombolysis trial randomized trial of Intravenous thrombolysis & primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) feasibility phase data of angioplasty limb. Mehta AB, Abhyankar AD. J. Assoc. Physicians of India. 1994  Jan: 42 (1): 43-4
• A preliminary report of a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase and direct angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction.  Mehta AB, Kaneria VK,  Kane GR, Abhyankar AD, Pahlajani DB.  India Heart Journal 1993: 45; 313 (Abstract)
• Rescue Angioplasty – an Update. Nihar Mehta, A B Mehta. STEMI UPDATE 2015. 1009-1014
• Intraprocedural Stent Thrombosis – Case Series of a Rare Complication Managed Successfully – Nikesh Jain, Nilesh Tawade, Nihar Mehta, Ajit Desai, Ashwin Mehta. CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH. 2019, 3(2), 31-36
• Robotic Adrenalectomy: An Emerging option in the treatment of Pheochromocytoma. Ameya Tirodkar, Nihar Mehta, AB Mehta. CLINICAL JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION. Jan-Mar 2018, Vol 2 (3), 41-44
• An Unusual Case of Distant Coronary Artery Perforation. Ajit Desai, S.R. Handa, Nihar Mehta, Nilesh Tawade, A.B. Mehta. JOURNAL OF INDIAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY – 2014; 178 to 181
• Left Atrial Spindle Cell Sarcoma.  Nihar Mehta, Ajit Desai, Bharat Shivdasani, Satyajeet Suryawanshi, A.B.Mehta, A. Behranwala, Boman Dhabhar. INDIAN HEART JOURNAL; July - August 2012 (64) 416-419
• Balloon mitral valvuloplasty in medically critically ill patients, Abhyankar AD, Damle AV, Agarwal A, Kaneria VK, Pahlajani DB, Mehta AB, India Heart Journal 1993

Memberships:

Memberships:

• President of International conference of Coronary artery disease: 2000-2008
• President of Cardiological Society of India - 1998
• President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease – 1981
• President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease - 1986
• President of Association of Physicians of India – 1988
• President of Indian Society of Electrocardiology  
• Course Director, “India Live”