About Doctor

Dr. Murali, a pioneer, and seasoned cardiovascular and thoracic specialist are one of the few coronary surgeons having performed 100% coronary surgeries on a beating heart, without the use of a heart-lung machine. He has performed more than 7,000 open heart surgeries with more than 4,500 of them on beating heart for CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass surgery) with a mortality of less than 0.5%. He has only one conversion to the pump in the last 3,500 odd OPCAB (Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass) surgeries performed. He performed the first MICS (Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery) in Kerala, Right Anterior Mini Thoracotomy for closure of ASD, and ever since, has been performing MICS for Mitral and Aortic Valve surgeries as well. To his credit, Dr. Murali has trained numerous surgeons and anaesthesiologists in the field of cardiac surgery across the globe.