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Brief About Dr. Murali P. Vettath
Dr. Murali P. Vettath, a distinguished Cardiovascular Surgeon from Calicut, India, serves as the Chairman at Meitra Hospital in Kerala. With over 26 years of experience, Dr. Vettath is recognized for his expertise in performing coronary artery bypass surgeries on a beating heart, rather than utilizing the heart-lung machine. Having conducted more than 7,000 open-heart surgeries, including 4,500 on a beating heart, he boasts an impressively low mortality rate of 0.5%.
Dr. Vettath made history in Kerala by being the first surgeon to carry out minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) in July 2002, focusing on mitral and aortic valve surgeries. Additionally, he achieved another milestone by performing the first heart transplantation in North Kerala in 2015. Dr. Vettath’s special interests lie in Heart Transplant, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, as well as Open-heart surgeries.
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