About
Syamasundar Patnana, MD, DCH, FAAP, FACC, FSCAI, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric cardiologist. His special interests are physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defects, tricuspid atresia, and transcatheter management of heart defects in children. Patnana is a pioneer in interventional pediatric cardiology and made many contributions in catheterization and angiography in the 1970s, balloon angioplasty/valvuloplasty in the 1980s, and transcatheter catheter closure of cardiac defects in the 1990s. He developed a new pediatric cardiology/pediatric cardiovascular surgery program in the 2000s and educational programs and teaching material for physicians in the...