“Our heart does a lot of hard work and therefore needs a lot of care. Each day, an average human heart beats for an approximate 100,000 times and pumps about 7500 litres of blood through the body. That’s a lot of hard work for an organ no bigger than a large fist. Truth is, the heart does more physical work than any other muscle over a lifetime. That is, when you’re not viewing it from the perspective of someone who’d just been bitten by the love bug,” says Dr. M.S.S. Mukharjee with a mischievous smile. “Because then, the heart has to work even harder!”
Ask him why he chose to be a heart specialist and you get a response that’s unique as the person himself. Dr. M.S.S. Mukharjee is one of the most renowned and widely respected senior interventional cardiologists in Hyderabad. He holds a rare double degree in Cardiology: both DM and DNB in cardiology. Dr. Mukharjee works at the Pulse Heart Centre, in KPHB colony, one of the most densely populated suburbs in India, and also at the Medicover Hospital in Madhapur.
Dr. Mukharjee is an expert in angioplasty and stenting and percutaneous aortic valve replacements. His work in prevention of heart diseases has been recognised by several governmental organizations. He is a specialist in the management of Hypertension as certified by the American Society of Hypertension.
“What is life without the tensions it comes along with?” he says philosophically. “Problem is that we Indians tend to take ourselves and our lives a bit too seriously. This is what gives rise to hypertension, which becomes the source of employment for heart specialists like us.”
Behind the ever self-effacing exterior, Dr. Mukharjee is actually an expert with a solid 15 years of Interventional cardiology experience. He performs the most complex of angioplasties including the most calcified coronaries, the diffuse disease, the bifurcations and the chronically closed vessels.
He is regularly invited as a faculty for several national and international conferences and has devised an easy way of teaching the medical students to learn ECG. He frequently conducts sessions for the students regarding the art and science of ECG-reading. He consistently shares his knowledge with his medical fraternity through social media videos.