Mr Ranjit Deshpande

Mr Ranjit Deshpande is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon with specialist interest in endoscopic, Minimally Invasive (Key Hole) & robotic Cardiac Surgery. He specialises in use of bilateral internal mammary arteries for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) to achieve total arterial re-vascularisation. He is well known nationally and internationally for endoscopic CABG which is performed as “beating heart” procedure without opening the sternum. He trained in the South-East Thames London Cardiothoracic Surgical Programme. In 2005 after the award of FRCS (C/Th) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he received a prestigious scholarship from the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons to work in OLV Zeinkenhaus, Belgium to train in port-access endoscopic mitral valve repair surgery for mitral valve prolapse. He was appointed as Senior Registrar in Advanced Aortic & Robotic Cardiac Surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital in 2006 before being appointed as a Consultant at King’s College Hospital in 2007. Mr Deshpande is one of the lead surgeons of the world renowned “Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation” (TAVI) programme at King’s College Hospital. His private practice is based in Cleveland Clinic London and the Guthrie Clinic at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

Beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery; robotic or endoscopic or minimally invasive or keyhole mitral and tricuspid valve repair; excision of cardiac tumours; TAVI; valve replacement; mitral valve repair; mitral valve replacement; atrial septal closure; ischemic heart disease; heart failure; heart attack; mitral valve prolapse; mitral valve incompetence; mitral stenosis; narrowed heart valve; aortic stenosis; aortic incompetence; tricuspid incompetence; tricuspid stenosis; aortic regurgitation; aortic aneurysm; dilated aortic root; aortic root replacement; septal myectomy, atrial fibrillation; Cox Maze procedure; Marfan's syndrome; anuuloaortic ecstasia; ascending aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection; mitral clip; minimal access aortic valve replacement; mini-AVR; min-MVR; angina; shortness of breath; palpitations; syncopy; pericardiectomy; rheumatic valve disease; redo surgery