Dr. Sakthivel R

Dr. Sakthivel R
Department:
Experience: 15 years of experience
Hospital: Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet, Chennai

About

About Dr. Sakthivel R Dr. Sakthivel R is a renowned Cardiologist having great experience in this field. He is adept in treating Cardiac Arrhythmias, Bradyarrhythmias, Heart Failure, and Control of HF disease and SCD Risk with optimal use of pharmacology.  His areas of expertise are Pacemaker Implantation, Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) devices, Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy, and Diagnostic Electrophysiological Studies. He has completed Post-doctoral fellowship (PDF) in Cardiac Electro-physiology & Pacing and DM (Cardiology) from JIMPER, Puducherry.  He pursued MBBS from Thanjavur Government Medical College and MD (General Medicine ) from Madras Medical College, Chennai.

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

, Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), Cardiac Electro-physiology & Pacing – JIMPER, Puducherry

Special Interest

Cardiac Arrhythmias
Bradyarrhythmias
Pacemaker Implantation
Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) devices
Heart Failure (HF)-Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy
Diagnostic Electrophysiological Studies