Cardiology practice has enormously increased in India and also cardiologists number and adding up of sophisticated instruments made this a speciality, not a single cardiologist handling speciality. In the USA, echocardiography has become a big speciality. Unfortunately, in India, it is yet to become a separate subspecialty. Dr.Navin C Nanda, an Indian is heading echo dept in one of the premier US institutions.
In Tamilnadu, Prof.X of Chennai is expert par excellence but has not carved a dept in service or outside service. It is high time, all cardiologists of India should meet and create subspecialities in Cardiology for better growth of academics and research. The following is a list of subspecialties and is comprehensive but can say not complete. Clinical Cardiology Investigative Cardiology- Electrocardiology, Echocardiology, TMT, Imaging in the form of CT Angio, Cardiac MRI,…
