Dr. Jorge Huanca Mamani

Dr. Jorge Huanca Mamani is a cardiologist of 20 years' experience practising at Clínica Ricardo Palma, one of Lima's leading private hospitals offering comprehensive cardiovascular diagnostic and interventional services. Born into the Andean tradition of his family name — Huanca and Mamani being among the most widely recognised Quechua-origin surnames in Peru and Bolivia — Dr. Huanca Mamani has throughout his career maintained a particular commitment to serving patients from both coastal urban and highland communities, and he conducts consultations in Spanish, English, and Quechua.

His career has been shaped by Peru's unique cardiovascular epidemiology, which encompasses the typical risk factors of urban populations — hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, and obesity — alongside the distinctive cardiovascular adaptations and pathologies seen in high-altitude populations living in the Andes. Chronic mountain sickness, polycythaemia, and altitude-related pulmonary hypertension are conditions that receive comparatively little attention globally but carry significant clinical burden in Peru, and Dr. Huanca Mamani has developed specialist expertise in their diagnosis and management.

At Clínica Ricardo Palma, he leads a busy outpatient cardiology clinic and performs non-invasive cardiac investigations including transthoracic and stress echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and Holter monitoring. He collaborates with the interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery teams when patients require invasive diagnostic coronary angiography or revascularisation. His clinical approach is grounded in preventive cardiology, and he dedicates considerable time to patient education on lifestyle modification, medication adherence, and cardiovascular risk reduction.

Dr. Huanca Mamani is an active member of the Sociedad Peruana de Cardiología (SOPECARD) and contributes to the society's outreach efforts to improve cardiovascular care access across Peru's diverse geographic regions.

Dr. Huanca Mamani completed his medical degree (Médico Cirujano) at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos — one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the Americas and Peru's leading public medical school. He undertook his internal medicine residency and cardiology specialisation at Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Peru's largest social security hospital and a major cardiology training centre in Lima.

Following board certification in cardiology by SOPECARD, he completed a fellowship in echocardiography and cardiac imaging, developing expertise in advanced transthoracic and stress echocardiography technique. He also undertook advanced training in the cardiovascular physiology of high-altitude exposure, collaborating with researchers at the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Altura at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.

Dr. Huanca Mamani maintains his board certification and attends national and international cardiology congresses including the SOPECARD annual meeting and the Inter-American Society of Cardiology (IASC) congress, through which he stays current with evidence-based advances in heart failure, arrhythmia management, and preventive cardiology.

Dr. Huanca Mamani's clinical expertise encompasses three principal areas: ischemic heart disease, heart failure, and cardiovascular medicine in high-altitude contexts. In ischemic heart disease, he evaluates and manages patients with stable and unstable coronary syndromes, coordinating with interventional cardiology colleagues when revascularisation is indicated. He uses stress echocardiography as his preferred non-invasive ischaemia testing modality in patients with intermediate pre-test probability.

In heart failure, he manages patients across the spectrum of ejection fraction phenotypes — HFrEF, HFmrEF, and HFpEF — following contemporary guideline-directed medical therapy including sacubitril/valsartan, SGLT2 inhibitors, and cardiac resynchronisation therapy in appropriate candidates. He works with the heart failure nurse specialist team at Clínica Ricardo Palma to support medication titration and remote monitoring of patients between clinic visits.

His high-altitude cardiovascular specialty is unique within Lima's private sector. He assesses and treats Peruvian patients from highland communities including Cusco, Puno, and Huancayo who present with chronic mountain sickness (Monge's disease), altitude-related pulmonary hypertension, or erythrocytosis complicating cardiovascular disease. Conditions treated include ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, and dyslipidaemia.

Dr. Huanca Mamani has contributed to clinical research on cardiovascular risk in Peruvian highland populations and on the echocardiographic characteristics of chronic mountain sickness-related pulmonary hypertension. He has collaborated with investigators at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia's Instituto de Investigaciones de la Altura and has presented findings at SOPECARD's national cardiology congress.

His research interests include hypertension control rates among indigenous Andean communities, the impact of coca leaf chewing on cardiovascular indices, and the performance of standard cardiovascular risk scoring tools (such as the Framingham Risk Score) in high-altitude Peruvian cohorts where haematological and physiological parameters differ markedly from sea-level reference populations. He advocates for Peru-specific cardiovascular risk calculators and clinical guidelines that account for altitude physiology.

Dr. Huanca Mamani consults in Spanish, English, and Quechua, making him accessible to a wide range of patients. Clínica Ricardo Palma is well established as a destination for medical tourists seeking cardiac consultations and non-invasive cardiac workup in Lima, particularly from patients in neighbouring Latin American countries where certain diagnostic technologies are less readily available.

He offers initial telemedicine consultations for international patients who wish to discuss echocardiographic reports, electrocardiograms, or blood tests before scheduling an in-person visit. For patients with specific interest in high-altitude cardiovascular assessment — such as trekkers planning Machu Picchu ascents, patients with pre-existing heart disease planning altitude travel, or highland Peruvians seeking specialised assessment — he provides structured consultation protocols tailored to altitude medicine cardiovascular concerns.

Dr. Huanca Mamani has been recognised by SOPECARD for his contributions to cardiovascular medicine in underserved Andean communities and for his efforts to bridge highland and lowland cardiology practice in Peru. He has served on SOPECARD committee panels examining hypertension management guidelines and has been invited as a faculty speaker at national cardiovascular conferences.

He has received acknowledgement from Clínica Ricardo Palma for clinical excellence and for his role in expanding the hospital's cardiology outreach programme to serve patients from highland regions who travel to Lima for specialised cardiac care. His trilingual consultation capability in Spanish, English, and Quechua has been highlighted as an example of culturally sensitive medical practice within Peru's diverse patient population.