| Personal Details | |
|---|---|
| Primary Specialty | Cardiology |
| Designation | Director & Senior Consultant Cardiothorasic Surgery |
| OP Days | Monday - Friday 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM |
| Education And Fellowships | |
| Qualification | MS, MCH, FIACS |
| Education | MBBS - Govt Medical College, TVM |
| MS (Gen Surgery) - Govt Medical College, TVM | |
| MCh - Govt Medical College, TVM | |
| Professional Membership | Registration in the Travancore -Cochin Medical Council Number - TCMC 20301 |
| Life member Indian Medical Association- 68286 L (Amala Nagar Br) | |
| Life member and Fellow - Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons - L20224 | |
| Life Member - Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine No 08 -R/263 | |
| Founder member and Joint secretary of the Society for Heart Failure and Transplantation | |
| Previous Experience | |
| Experiences | Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon in Apollo Adlux Hospital, Karukutty, Kochi |
| Senior Consultant & HOD of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at KIMS Al Shifa Super specialty Hospital, Perinthalmanna, Malappuram | |
| Professor & HOD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery in Amala Institute of Medical Sciences Thrissur | |
| Worked as Fellow in cardiac Surgery in Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore | |
| Junior Consultant- Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi | |
| Junior Consultant General Surgeon in Holy Cross Hospital, Kottiyam, Kollam | |
| Resident Medical Officer in Lekshmy Nursing Home, Kilimanoor, Trivandrum | |
Brief Description
Dr. S Rajagopal is our Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgeon. He is a former Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi and Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur. He worked as Sr Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, in Apollo Adlux Hospital, Karukutty, Kochi. He also worked as Senior Consultant and Chief Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery in KIMS-Al Shifa Super Speciality Hospital, Perinthalmanna and Sun Medical Centre, Thrissur. He was instrumental in setting up state-of-the-art departments in Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, KIMS-Al Shifa Hospital, Sun Medical Centre, Thrissur and Apollo Adlux Hospital.
Dr S.Rajagopal specializes in all types of adult cardiac, thoracic, Aortic and Vascular surgeries. He is one of the sought after cardiac surgeon in the central Kerala. He is one of the leading and most experienced cardiac surgeon with expertise in coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, especially beating heart operations, valve replacement and repair surgeries, aortic aneurysm surgeries, Heart failure surgeries and minimally invasive cardiac surgeries. He has strived to bring advances in the cardiac surgery field to the common man.
He graduated for Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, and then continued to train in MS-Gen Surgery and MCh- Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery from the same institute. His cardiac surgery career started in Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore under Dr Devi Shetty and later moved to Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi where he rose to Professor in Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery. He moved to Amala Institute of Medical Sciences to set up the department, which is still one of the best in Kerala, Dr Rajagopal has been practicing cardio surgery for the last 21 years and has completed more than 6000 case with admirable results.
He is a life member of several medical societies. He is an active life member of IMA, Fellow of Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery and Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is also the founder member and Joint secretary of Society for Heart failure and Transplantation, which is the most active heart failure in India.
Dr S Rajagopal is considered to be one of the safest heart surgeons in Kerala and known as the ‘Surgeon with the safest hands’.
Special Interests
Aneurysm Surgery
Heart Transplant
Research and Publications
- “Cold induced agglutination- An unsuspected catastrophe during open heart surgery” in the 15th Biennial Conference of the Association of cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of Asia, held at Mumbai in December 2001.
- “Left Anterior Descending artery endarterectomy, vein patch and internal mammary artery bypass in diffuse coronary artery disease” in the 49th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, held at Hyderabad, in February 2003.
- “Surgical revascularisation in severe ventricular dysfunction with heart failure” in the 51st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons , held at Cochin, in February 2005.
- Co-author for the article- “ Coronary artery bypass grafting in female patients on thyroxin replacement”- India Journal of cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery- Vol 21, Jan -March, 2005
- Co-author for the article-“ Left ventricular posterior wall pseudo aneurysm - A rare sequelae of Mitral valve endocarditis in chronic patient of HLA - B 27 positive spondyloarthritis.”, Annals of Thoracic surgery, Vol 82, December 2006.
- Research Works Participated in STICH Trial [Surgical Treatment in Ischemic Heart Failure Trial], A multi-centric, international trial of Duke University, South Carolina, USA, sponsored by the National Institute of Health, USA.
- Participated in RSD-1235-01-04 trial, a phase III study of conversion efficacy and safety of repeated IV doses of RSD 1235 in subjects with Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter following valvular/or coronary bypass grafting. [Cardiome Pharmacorp, Vancouver, Canada], an international trial of new anti-arrhythmic drug.
