Dr. Prashant Bobhate is the pediatric heart specialist at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Mumbai running the Children’s Heart Centre on the second floor. He’s a dedicated pediatric cardiologist and pulmonary hypertension specialist with over 12 years of focused experience in children’s cardiac care. One of very few specialists in India running a full dedicated paediatric cardiac programme at this level.
“Every child who walks through that door deserves a proper answer about their heart. Not a rushed opinion. An actual answer built around what their specific heart is doing right now,” says Dr. Prashant Bobhate, Pediatric Cardiologist in Mumbai, India.
What Does Dr. Bobhate Treat at Kokilaben Hospital?
Most families arrive not knowing exactly what falls under paediatric cardiology or whether their child’s specific problem belongs here. It almost always does.
- Hole in heart: VSDs, ASDs and PDAs at every size and stage from incidental newborn findings through to defects needing device closure or surgical repair depending entirely on what the specific anatomy actually shows on the echo.
- Pulmonary hypertension: The only dedicated multidisciplinary paediatric pulmonary hypertension programme in India runs right here with over 400 children currently on advanced therapy including the newest agents available anywhere in the country.
- Tetralogy of Fallot: Complete evaluation, pre-surgical planning and long term follow up for children with TOF from fetal diagnosis right through to adult congenital cardiology transition without losing the thread of their history along the way.
- Fetal echo: Detailed cardiac assessment of the baby’s heart between 18 and 24 weeks for high risk pregnancies and those with anything suspicious flagged on routine anomaly scanning.
These are exactly the conditions where the right congenital heart disease specialist at the right facility makes a difference that shows up in outcomes not just in the quality of the appointment itself.
Why Is Kokilaben the Right Place for Your Child's Heart Care?
Because the specialist and the facility have to work together properly and at Kokilaben that combination exists in a way that simply isn’t available everywhere else in Mumbai.
- India’s first: The team here performed India’s very first successful Transcatheter Potts Shunt and that milestone didn’t happen at a centre doing things the standard way with standard resources and standard ambition.
- Advanced therapy access: Sotatercept, prostacyclin analogues and the full range of targeted pulmonary hypertension therapies are actively used here for children in a way that genuinely isn’t the case in most other centres across the country.
- Multidisciplinary team: Cardiology, pulmonology, rheumatology, genetics and neonatology all feeding into the same case discussion for complex children rather than each specialty seeing the same child separately and never quite talking properly to each other.
- Fetal to adult continuity: Children diagnosed before birth are followed through every stage of their cardiac journey at the same centre by a team that already knows their history completely rather than starting fresh at every single transition point.
Parents wanting to understand what early cardiac signs look like before they ever need a specialist at all should read this piece on how to spot the early signs of heart disease in neonates which goes through what these signs genuinely look like in those first weeks at home when everything still feels new and impossible to interpret.
Why Choose Dr. Prashant Bobhate for Pediatric Heart Care in Mumbai?
Some specialists see paediatric cardiology occasionally. Dr. Prashant Bobhate built an entire clinical life deliberately inside it. Trained at Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi then made a specific trip to the University of Alberta in Canada just for advanced paediatric cardiac and pulmonary hypertension fellowship training. Over 12 years working with children at every stage and complexity of cardiac disease. India’s first Transcatheter Potts Shunt. India’s only dedicated multidisciplinary paediatric pulmonary hypertension programme. Over 400 children on advanced therapy right now. He doesn’t see your child as a case number on a referral letter. He sees a child whose heart deserves the clearest and most honest picture anyone in this field can actually give.
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FAQs
Where is the clinic?
Children’s Heart Centre, Second Floor, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Four Bungalows, Andheri West, Mumbai 400053.
Does he see newborns?
Yes including babies diagnosed before birth through fetal echo who need immediate postnatal cardiac evaluation from the very first hours of life.
Is fetal echo available here?
Yes for high risk pregnancies and suspected cardiac findings between 18 and 24 weeks which is the ideal window for a complete cardiac assessment before birth.
Does he treat adults with pulmonary hypertension?
His primary focus is paediatric patients but young adults transitioning from childhood pulmonary hypertension care are managed through the same dedicated programme.
References:
- Congenital Heart Defects in Children, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute — https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/congenital-heart-defects
- Pediatric Cardiology Overview, MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine — https://medlineplus.gov/congenitalheartdefects.html