Dr. Joy Varghese

Dr Joy Varghese is a Neurosurgeon and Neurointervention specialist at Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, with 21+ years of experience. Apollo lists MBBS, MS, MCh in Neurosurgery, FMVS, FSS and FINR among his qualifications, including advanced neurointerventional training linked to Zurich University, Switzerland. He consults in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Bengali.

His practice includes complex cerebrovascular and microvascular neurosurgery, endovascular neurointervention, skull-base surgery and spine surgery. Apollo lists aneurysm surgery and coiling, AVM surgery and embolisation, flow-diversion procedures, intracranial and carotid stenting, mechanical thrombectomy, surgery for complex intracranial and skull-base tumours, and decompression or fusion procedures for spinal disease among his areas of work.

Treatment is selected after neurological assessment and review of CT, MRI, angiography or other imaging as appropriate.

Apollo records several professional achievements, including mechanical treatment of acute stroke in a very young patient in India in 2013, treatment of a reported bilateral direct carotid-cavernous fistula case and training neurointerventionalists in Shanghai in mechanical thrombectomy.

His academic record includes presentations and publications on cervical spondylotic myelopathy, low-grade glioma, childhood intracranial aneurysms and neurovascular disease. For patients with aneurysm, AVM, stroke, brain tumour or complex spinal disease, the choice between open microsurgery, endovascular treatment and non-operative management depends on anatomy, diagnosis and clinical urgency.