Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan, MD, DM

Sizing Balloon-Induced Tear of the Atrial Septum

08/01/2008

Sivasankaran Sivasubramonian , DM, MD;

Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan , MD, DM;

Namboodiri K.K. Narayanan , MD;

Atrial septal defects (ASD) are increasingly being subjected to closure by percutaneous techniques.1–3 Exact sizing of the ASD is a prerequisite for optimal selection of the occlusion device. Sizing of ASDs can be done by echocardiography...

Atrial septal defects (ASD) are...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy in a Case of Mirror-Image
Dextrocardia and Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis

08/01/2008

Jaganmohan Achuthan Tharakan , MBBS, MD, DM;

Narayanan Namboodiri , MBBS, MD, DM;

Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan , MD, DM;

Valaparambil K. Ajitkumar , MD, DM;

Distorted cardiac anatomy offers technical difficulties during fluoroscopy-guided transcatheter procedures. This is even more the case with percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC), where the cardiac malpositions considerably...

Distorted cardiac anatomy offers...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Single Coronary Artery from Right Aortic Sinus with Septal Course of Left Anterior Descending Artery and Left circumflex Artery

08/01/2008

Narayanan Namboodiri , MBBS, MD, DM;

Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan , MD, DM;

Jaganmohan Achuthan Tharakan , MBBS, MD, DM;

J INVASIVE CARDIOL 2007;19:E102-E103 The occurrence of a single coronary artery (SCA) in structurally normal heart is uncommon. This anomaly is often clinically benign and presents as an incidental finding during coronary angiography....

J INVASIVE CARDIOL...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Nonsurgical Closure of Recurrent Rupture of Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm in the Presence of Aortic Prosthesis

03/10/2009

Valaparambil K. Ajitkumar , MD, DM;

Sasidharan Bijulal , MD, DM;

Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan , MD, DM;

From the Department of cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted September 2, 2008,...

From the Department of...

03/10/2009

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy Using Metallic Commissurotome: Long-Term Follow-Up Results

08/01/2008

Sivasubramanian Sivasankaran , MD, DM;

Jaganmohan Achuthan Tharakan , MBBS, MD, DM;

Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan , MD, DM;

Kavassery Mahadevan Krishnamoorthy , MD, DM;

Anil Bhat , MD;

Thomas Titus , MD;

Ajith Kumar , MD;

Percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has been established as an effective treatment for mitral stenosis (MS) and is now the procedure of choice.1–6 Of the procedures available to treat mitral stenosis, percutaneous valvotomy using...

Percutaneous transmitral...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology