Cardiac surgeon, 39, dies of heart attack during rounds at Chennai hospital

31-Aug-2025

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A 39-year-old cardiac surgeon, Dr Gradlin Roy, suddenly collapsed from a massive cardiac arrest during routine morning ward rounds on August 27. His colleagues at Saveetha Medical Hospital in Chennai tried hard to save him, but Dr Roy could not be revived.

According to Dr Sudhir Kumar, a Hyderabad-based neurologist, Dr Roy’s colleagues immediately launched an intensive rescue attempt. “Colleagues fought valiantly — CPR, urgent angioplasty with stenting, intra-aortic balloon pump, even ECMO. But nothing could reverse the damage from a massive cardiac arrest due to a 100% left main artery blockage,” Dr Kumar wrote on X.