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Country: Best Doctor in India
City: Best Doctor in Chennai
Department: Cardiology Cardiac Surgeon,
Experience: 46 years of experience
Hospital: Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, Chennai
About
About Dr. S. Thanikchalam Dr. S. Thanikchalam is a Cardiologist having more than 46 years of expertise. Services provided by him includes Clinical Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Epidemiological Studies, Clinical Trials & Basic Research on Herbal Medicine, and many more. He earned his MBBS in India from Madras Medical College in 1962, his MD from Madras Medical College in 1967, and his DM from Christian Medical College in 1971. He has participated in several worldwide multicentric pharmacological trials, including the Tufts University School of Remedy’s PURSE-HIS Epidemiological Research and a study on Nuna Kadugu, a Siddha medicine used to treat various skin ailments. He is the recipient of the Medical Council of India’s Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the country’s highest medical honour. Dr. S. Thanikchalam has a huge number of publications in different journals. In 2009, the Indian government honoured him with the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian honour, for his achievements to medicine. Dr. S. Thanikchalam is fluent in English, and Tamil.
List of Treatments
- Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
- Coronary Artery Surgery
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
- Cardiac OPD Procedures
- ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
- 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
- Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
- Echocardiography with Color Doppler
- Stress Echocardiographyn
- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
- Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
- 64 Slice CT Angiography
- PET Scan
- Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
- surgery
- Valve Repair Replacement
- Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
- Ross Procedure
- Cardiac Tumour Treatment
- Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
- Minimal access surgeries for valves
- ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
- Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
- Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
- TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
- Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
- ECMO Support
- heart disease
- Device Closure- ASD VSD
- Balloon Septostomy
- Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
- Pulmonary and Mitral
- Fetal Echocardiogram
- Coronary Angiogram
- Peripheral Angiogram
- PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Aortic Stent Grafting
- EPS-Electrophysiological
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
- Biventricular Pacing
- AICD
- PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
- Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
- Angiography
- Aortic Valve Replacement
- Mitral Valve Replacement
- VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
- Heart Double Valve Replacement
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber
- CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
- PDA Device Closure
- Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
- Valve Replacement
- Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
- Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
- Heart Implants
- Heart Surgery
- Rotational Atherectomy
- Redo CABG
- Angioplasty – 1 Stent
- Angioplasty – 2 Stent
- Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
- Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
- Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
- Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
- Aortic Valve Repair
- Mitral Valve Repair
- VP Shunting – Programmable Device
- AV Canal repair
- Bentall procedure
- PDA Ligation
- CRT – D (MRI Compatible)
- CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)
- CRT – P
- Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE
- ICD Implantation
- Cardiac catheterization
- Balloon mitral valvotomy
- Truncus Arterious Repair
- Cardiac ablation
- TAVI
- LVAD
Work Experience
Director, Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, Chennai
Special Interest
Clinical Cardiology
Preventive Cardiology
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Epidemiological Studies
Clinical Trials & Basic Research on Herbal Medicine