Balloon dilatation of Aortic valve in critical Aortic Stenosis in Infants.
Best paper award of CSI kerala chapter, November 2000, Cochin.
Enface reconstruction of muscular ventricular septal defects on the right ventricular septal surface by 2-Dimensional echocardiography, BEST SCIENTIFIC PAPER of Annual State CSI
Conferences Organized:
1. The Second Annual conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India, March 2000, AIMS, Kochi, Kerala, India. Seven international faculty members participated. Attended by 250 delegates
2. The 7th annual PSCI conference hosted at Apollo Children’s Heart Hospital, Hyderabad, 2005. Attended by 350 delegates with sis international faculty. This was the first PCSI with a live workshop.
Performed the first successful balloon dilatation of valvar pulmonary atresia retrogradely through the PDA in a 4 month old infant with pulmonary atresia intact septum with severe tricuspid regurgitation. After complete relief of obstruction, the duct was closed with bioptome assisted coil closure in a repeat procedure after 2 weeks (To be reported).
ADO device closure of native pulmonary valve in a patient with excessive antegrade accessory pulmonary blood flow after BDG (in press-Indian heart journal).
Emergency primary stenting done as a salvage procedure in a case of severe coarctation of aorta with severe LV dysfunction and hemodynamic instability in whom surgery was not considered feasible.
Ductal stenting in a newborn with 3mm x 10 mm prolink stent in a patient with critical pulmonic stenosis who had continued to desaturate after successful balloon dilation of the pulmonary valve. The child did not respond to prostaglandin infusion.
ADO device closure of coronary AV fistula in a 6 month old infant with severe PAH and CHF.
VSD device closure at a Medical College hospital in Rajamandry. The patient, 58 years old, after AWMI, developed acquired muscular VSD, was on IABP with low cardiac output. A 16 mm Muscular Device was put through a jugular approach and the patient was weaned from IABP after 48 hours and discharged. He also underwent percutaneous revascularization in the same sitting. |
