Dr. Roopesh BVS

Professional Summary:

Dr. Roopesh BVS is a Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist specialized in the comprehensive care of congenital and acquired heart diseases in newborns, children, and adults with congenital heart disease. His expertise includes minimally invasive, catheter-based interventions for congenital heart defects in neonates, children, and adults, along with advanced pediatric echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). He also provides specialized fetal cardiology and fetal echocardiography services for the antenatal detection and evaluation of congenital heart defects and provides expert counselling, risk assessment, and coordinated planning for delivery and appropriate postnatal cardiac care, helping families understand the diagnosis and available treatment options. With expertise spanning fetal cardiology, pediatric cardiology, congenital heart interventions, and adult congenital heart disease, Dr. Roopesh provides continuity of specialized cardiac care from the prenatal period through childhood and into adulthood. He is available at KIMS–Seethamadhara, Visakhapatnam, for OPD consultations and emergency cardiac services.

Scope of Services:

• Diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease in Children and adults
• ASD, VSD, PDA device closures
• Balloon Valvuloplasty (Aortic and Pulmonary)
• Balloon and Stent angioplasty
• Pediatric Echo, Transesophageal Echo
• Fetal echocardiography
• Heart failure
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Postoperative Cardiac care

Education:

• MBBS: Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam 
• MD Pediatrics: JIPMER, Pondicherry
• DrNB Pediatric Cardiology: Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai.

Experience:

• May 2025 – April 2026: Worked as a Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at Sri Padmavathi Child Heart Centre, Tirupati, accumulating 10 months of clinical and transcatheter interventional experience.
• April 2022 – May 2025: Completed a 3-year subspecialty training fellowship program as a DrNB Pediatric Cardiology Trainee at The Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai. 
• August 2021 – March 2022: Served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at NRIMS Hospital and Medical College, Visakhapatnam for 6 months.
• March 2020 – July 2021: Worked as a Senior Resident in the Department of Pediatrics at NRIMS Hospital and Medical College, Visakhapatnam for 1 year and 3 months. 
• November 2019 – February 2020: Worked as a Senior Resident in the Department of Pediatrics at GEMS Medical College and Hospital, Srikakulam for 3 months.  
• 2016 – 2019: Completed a 3-year MD Pediatrics residency at JIPMER, Puducherry, gaining specialized rotation experience in the PICU, NICU, pediatric emergency, and pediatric specialty clinics.
• 2014 – 2015: Completed a 1-year Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship at King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam. 

Presentations:

• PCSI 2023 - Antegrade Transvenous Balloon Coarctoplasty in Very Preterm Neonate.
• PCSI 2024 - Conduction system pacing for heart block in a patient with Eisenmenger syndrome in DORV, large subaortic VSD.
• PCSI 2024  -Transcatheter correction of iatrogenic cyanosis due to surgical diversion of superior vena cava to the left atrium in Sinus venosus defect

Publications:

• Roopesh BV, Haritha G, Kishore SV, Sivaprakasam MC, Maiya S, Rajan S, et al. ThoroughFare atrial pressure controller device to create a controlled interatrial right-to-left shunt in advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension – A pilot study. Ann Pediatr Card 2024; 17:408-14.
• Roopesh BV, Sivakumar K, Sagar P, Mullasari AS. Sequential percutaneous intervention for sinus venosus defect and significant coronary artery disease. Ann Pediatr Card 2024; 17:459-65.
• Roopesh BVS, Kumar GA, Pavithran S, Agarwal R, Sivakumar K. Anomalous systemic venous drainage in truncus arteriosus - An unusual association. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2025 Mar-Apr;18(2):169-172.

Clinical & Interventional Expertise:

• Independent Procedures: Experienced as a primary operator for critical procedures including ASD, PDA, and VSD device closures, balloon pulmonary/aortic valvotomies, and balloon dilatation of coarctation of the aorta.  
• Advanced Imaging: Competent in performing Transthoracic (TTE), Transesophageal (TEE), and Fetal Echocardiography.  
• Critical & Peri-operative Care: Actively manages post-operative congenital cardiac surgery patients in the ICU, handling hemodynamic stabilization and medical optimization.

Languages Known:

English, Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil