Dr. Avinash Dal Is A Chief Cardio Thoracic And Vascular Surgeon At Continental Hospitals. He Has More Than 21 Years Experience In Cardiothoracic And Vascular Surgery. He Has Performed More Than 9000 Major Cardio Thoracic And Vascular Surgical Procedures To Date. He Has Hands-on Experience In Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery, Thoracoscopy [vats], Mediastinoscopy, Aneurysm Surgery For Aortic Dissections And Endovascular Repair.He Performed The First Elective Auto Transplantation Of The Heart (Bench Cardiac Surgery) In 1997 For End-stage Heart Disease And Battista Operation (Reduction Cardiomyoplasty) For Dilated Cardiomyopathy In 1999. Dr. Dal Introduced The Vats Program In 2000 And So Far Performed Over 1800 Vats Surgeries. He Performed Concab (Awake Cardiac Surgery) In 2004, For The First Time In The State. He Pioneered Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery Program At Apollo Health City, Hyderabad In 2007 And Performed Evar (Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Of Aorta) In 2008.