dr hemanth kumar
pandharpurkar

Dr Hemanth Kumar Pandharpurkar is a Consultant Vascular & Endovascular surgeon at the Manipal Hospital, HAL airport Road, Bangalore, from October 2017. Prior to this, he was the Professor & Head of Vascular Surgery at the St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore (1998 – 2014) and then Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Sir P D Hinduja National Hospital, Mahim & Hinduja Healthcare Surgical ,Khar, Mumbai from June 2014 to Oct. 2017), before moving back to Bangalore.

He has over 20 years of experience in Vascular Surgery, at major centres like the above and has managed a vast variety of patients with Vascular disorders like acute and chronic limb ischaemia, including vascular trauma, Aneurysms like aortic & peripheral, Venous thrombosis like Acute Deep & Superficial Vein Thrombosis, Chronic Venous Insufficiency problems like Primary & secondary varicose veins, Post –thrombotic syndrome, etc and Vascular malformations like arterio-venous( AVM), venous and mixed type malformations, etc.

He has particularly vast experience in Vascular Access procedures for Hemo-dialysis like Arterio-venous fistulae ( AVF), Arterio-venous bridge graft fistulae ( AVG), Perm-Cath placements and managing all the possible complications.

He has been the Renal transplant recipient Surgeon at the St John’s Medical College Hospital for over 6 years, with excellent results.

He is proficient in the newer Endovascular Surgical procedures like Peripheral balloon angioplasty & stenting for arterial and venous occlusions & Endovenous procedures for Varicose veins like EVLT ( Endovenous Laser Treatment) & Endovenous Radio-frequency Ablation ( EVRFA), as also Inj. Sclerotherapy for varicose veins, venous malformations, etc.

As much of his early career was at the prestigious St. John’s Medical College Hospital, an academic institution, he has a vast experience in academic activities like teaching & clinical research.