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Dr. K S Ravindranath

MD, DM(cardio), DNB(cardio)

Senior Consultant / Cardiology

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English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
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Senior Consultant

Qualification/ Education

  • M.B.B.S - Karnataka University , KMC, Hubli - 1979 
  • M.D (General Medicine ) - Mysore University , MMC Mysore -1982
  • D.M(Cardiology) - Bangalore Uniersity , SJIC Bangalore - 1993
  • D.N.B(Cardiology) - National Board of Examinations, New Delhi - 1993

Experience

  • Teaching Experience : 43 years 
  • Post - MD : 10 years 
  • Post -DM : 33 years 
  • Professor of Cardiology & Head - Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology - 2001-2024
  • Professor and HOD, Cardiology - Bangalore Medical College - 2000-2001 
  • Director -  Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Research - feb-2024- sep - 2025
  • Vice - Chancellor - Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 
  • Former Editor - in-Chief - Journal of Indian College of Cardiology.

Areas of interest

  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Structural Heart Disease 
  • Valvular Heart Disease
  • Non-Invasive Cardiology
  • Academic Cardiology & Medical Education
  • Cardiovascular Research 

Field of Expertise

  • Percutaneous Coronory Interventions 
  • Balloon Mitral Valuoplasty 
  • Structural Heart Interventions 
  • Advanced Cardiac Diagnostics
  • Academic Leadership & Medical Administration 

Fellowship & Membership

  • Fellow, American College of Cardiology -2013
  • Fellow, Indian College of Cardiology 

Extramural portfolios/ Committees

  • President - Indian College of Cardiology ( 2012-2013)
  • President -Elect & Chairman, Scientific committe - Indian College of Cardiology 
  • Past Vice - President -  Indian College of Cardiology 
  • Past Honorary Secretary -  Indian College of Cardiology 
  • Past President -Cardiology Society of India, bangalore chapter 
  • Past  Secretary - CSI , Bangalore Chapter 

 

Other formal training/certification

  • Course Coordinator - Fellowship in Non-Invasive Cardiology (Rguhs affiliation )
  • Examiner for DM & DNB Cardiology at:
  1.  RGUHS, Bangalore 
  2. NBE, New Delhi
  3. Manipal University
  4. Sri Chitra Thirunal Institute, Trivandrum  
  5. Kerala University 
  6. NTR University , Andhra Pradesh
  7. Sri Venkateshwara University , Tirupati 
  8. Amrita Institue , Kochi.

Institutional portfolios/ Committees

  • Vice-Chancellor – RGUHS:
    Introduced digital valuation & online examination reforms
    Implemented online affiliation & eligibility systems
    Initiated university research funding & international collaborations
    Established faculty development & quality monitoring systems
  • Director & Head - Sri Jayadeva Institue of Cardiology 

Membership of professional associations/bodies

  • Indian College of Cardiology
  • Cardiological Society of Indian 
  • American College of Cardiology 

Awards and Recognitions

  • Dr. B. C. Roy State Award – Govt. of Karnataka (2011)
  • Dr. K.S.S. Appa Presidential Oration – CSI (2013)
  • Sri P. M. Nayak Memorial Oration – CSI Karnataka Chapter (2011)
  • First Prize – India Live Conference, New Delhi (2011)
  • Device closure of coronary cameral fistula
  • Nadachethana Award – Rangachethana (2008–2009)
  • Invited Faculty – ACC (USA), TCT (USA), EURO PCR (Paris), TCTAP (South Korea

No groups and associations specified.

No project details available.

Pseudo-atrial flutter/fibrillation in Parkinson's disease

Groups and Associations B Prabhavathi , K S Ravindranath, Nagaraja Moorthy, C N Manjunath
Indian Heart J . 2009
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Unruptured Multiple Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms

Groups and Associations Demian J Omeh 1, Amgad N Makaryus
Case Rep Radiol 2022
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Inverted bulb": A rare complication of myocardial infarction--a new sign!

Groups and Associations Y Jayakeerthi , Lokesh, K S Ravindranath, C N Manjunath
Indian Heart J 2010
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Free floating right atrial thrombus with massive pulmonary embolism:near catastrophic course following thrombolytic therapy

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa 1, Ravi S Math, Srinivas Papaiah, Yeriswamy M Channabasappa, Satish Karur, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
Indian Heart J . 2013
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Coronary artery disease in patients undergoing cardiac surgery for non-coronary lesions in a tertiary care centre

Groups and Associations Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath , Ashish Agarwal , Prabhavathi Bhat , Khandenahally Shankarappa Ravindranath , Rajiv Ananthakrishna , R Ravindran , Neena Agarwal
Indian Heart J . 2014
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Incidence and predictors of atrial septal defect after percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy - a transesophageal echocardiographic study of 209 cases

Groups and Associations Chollenahally Nanjappa Manjunath , Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Kikkeri Hemanna Setty Srinivasa, Bhat Prabhavathi, Kapil Rangan, Chandrasekaran Dhanalakshmi, Khandenahally Shankarappa Ravindranath
Echocardiography . 2013
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Intraoperative pulmonary artery stenting in aortoarteritis: a hybrid procedure

Groups and Associations Khandenahally Shankarappa Ravindranath Kapil Rangan Padebettu Subramanya Seetharama Bhat Arkalgud Marigowda Jagadeesh Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath
Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics 2011
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Intraoperative pulmonary artery stenting in aortoarteritis: a hybrid procedure

Groups and Associations handenahally Shankarappa Ravindranath Kapil Rangan Padebettu Subramanya Seetharama Bhat Arkalgud Marigowda Jagadeesh Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath
Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics 2011
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Incidence and predictors of left atrial thrombus in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm: a transesophageal echocardiographic study

Groups and Associations Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath , Kikkeri Hermanna Setty Srinivasa, Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Bhat Prabhavathi, Khandenahally Shankarappa Ravindranath, Kapil Rangan, Chandrasekaran Dhanalakshm
Echocardiography 2011
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Unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysms manifesting as complete heart block

Groups and Associations Durgaprasad Rajashekar , Gangapatnam Subramanyam, Rao Panchamukheswar, Maddirala Praveen, Sonuguri Guruprasad
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2005
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Balloon mitral valvotomy for calcific mitral stenosis

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa , Ramesh Dwarakaprasad, Satish Karur, Geetha Bachahally Krishnanaik, Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
JACC Cardiovasc Interv . 2009
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Coronary Dissection, No Flow, Cardiac Arrest

Groups and Associations Ravindranth.Shankarappa.K. Pannerselvam, A, Nanjappa MC
European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine 2011
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Giant pulmonary artery aneurysm secondary to primary pulmonary hypertension

Groups and Associations R K Shankarappa , Nagaraja Moorthy, D Chandrasekaran, M C Nanjappa
Tex Heart Inst J . 2010
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Intraoperative stenting of pulmonary arteries.

Groups and Associations Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K Kapil Rangan, PS Bhat, Jagadeesh AM, Manjunath C N,
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005
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Removal of broken balloon mitral valvotomy coiled guidewire from giant left atrium using indigenous snare

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa , Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Ramesh Dwarakaprasad, Mohan Honnayya Nayak, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
Cardiovasc Interv Ther . 2011
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Left circumflex coronary arteriovenous fistula presenting as acute coronary syndrome

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa , Arunkumar Panneerselvam ,*, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
J Cardiol Cases. 2010
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Novel use of the Amplatzer duct occluder to close perivalvar leak involving a prosthetic mitral valve

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa • Arunkumar Panneerselvam • Ramesh Dwarakaprasad • Srinivas Budanur Chikkaswamy • Mohan Honnayya Nayak • Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
Cardiovasc Interv and Ther 2011
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Fatal coronary embolism in infective endocarditis associated with chronic rheumatic heart disease: an unexpected transesophageal echocardiographic documentation

Groups and Associations Manjunath Cholenahalli Nanjappa , Ravindranath Khandenahalli Shankarappa, Dhanalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Nagaraja Moorthy
Echocardiography 2009
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BMV in patients with mitral stenosis and left atrial thrombus.

Groups and Associations Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K C.N.Manjunath Sriniva.K.H,et al
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions 2009
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Intracardiac Thrombus in AML, Echo and Autopsy correlation, Echocardiography

Groups and Associations C.N.Manjunath Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K
Echocardiography. Echo 2010
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Giant Mediastinal thymolipoma Simulating cardiomegaly, Journal of Cardiology

Groups and Associations 13. Simha P, Nagaraj Murthy, Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K, Bhat PS, Manjunath CN
cardiomegaly, Journal of Cardiology: 2009
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Isolated left ventricular noncompaction mimicking ventricular mass

Groups and Associations Praveen Jayan , Ravindranath K Shankarappa, Rajiv Ananthakrishna, Manjunath C Nanjappa
Echocardiography 2011
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superior vena canal stenting for idiopathic mediastrial fibrosis.

Groups and Associations 15. J.P.Praveen Jayan, Ravi S Math, Satish K, Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K Manjunath.C.N,
Cardiovascu Interv and Ther. 2011
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Accelerated aeherosclerosis and H Syndrome

Groups and Associations 16. Ravindranath.Shankarappa.K Rajiv Anantha Krishna, Ravi S Math, Sachin DY, Satish Kumar, Ramesh D, Manjunath CN
BMJ (Accepted0 2011
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Stroke, superior vena cava syndrome, and the snowman in the chest roentgenogram

Groups and Associations Bhupinder Singh ,Ravindran Rajendran, Yadvinder Singh, Vivek Singla, Ravindranath K Shankarappa, Manjunath C Nanjappa
J Am Coll Cardiol . 2013
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Giant right atrium due to congenital dysplastic tricuspid valve in an elderly female patient

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa , Srinivas Papaiah, Satish Karur, Ravi S Math, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
Echocardiography . 2013
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Infective endocarditis: a rare organism in an uncommon setting

Groups and Associations Rajiv Ananthakrishna , Ravindranath K Shankarappa, Naveena Jagadeesan, Ravi S Math, Satish Karur, Manjunath C Nanjappa
Case Rep Infect Dis . 2012
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Transjugular percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) using conventional PTMC equipment in rheumatic mitral stenosis with interruption of inferior vena cava

Groups and Associations Ravindranath K Shankarappa , Ravi S Math, Srinivas B Chikkaswamy, Maneesh K Rai, Satish Karur, Ramesh Dwarakprasad, Manjunath C Nanjappa
J Invasive Cardiol 2012
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Left ventricular hydatid cyst: an uncommon cause of chest pain in young adults

Groups and Associations Ravindranath K Shankarappa , Nagaraja Moorthy, Prabhavathi Bhat, Manjunath C Nanjappa
Cardiol Young 2013
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Congenital absence of right superior vena cava: a "stomach" within the heart.

Groups and Associations Shankarappa Ravindranath K, Math RS, Jayan P, Karur S, Seetharam Bhat PS, Nanjappa MC
Tex Heart Inst J. 2012
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Acute severe mitral regurgitation following balloon mitral valvotomy

Groups and Associations 23. Nanjappa MC, Ananthakrishna R, Hemanna Setty SK, Bhat P, Shankarappa Ravindranath K Panneerselvam A, Kamalapurkar G, Bhat SP, Rao VR.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2013
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Tombstone-like electrocardiographic changes during exercise stress test

Groups and Associations Arunkumar Panneerselvam , Ravindranath K Shankarappa, Manjunath C Nanjappa
J Electrocardiol 2012
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Accelerated coronary atherosclerosis and H syndrome

Groups and Associations Ravindranath K Shankarappa , Rajiv Ananthakrishna, Ravi S Math, Sachin Dhareppa Yalagudri, Satish Karur, Ramesh Dwarakaprasad, Manjunath C Nanjappa, Vered Molho-Pessach
BMJ Case Rep . 2011
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Total anomalous systemic venous drainage in left heterotaxy syndrome

Groups and Associations Ravindranath S Khandenahally , Surender Deora, Ravi S Math
Cardiol Young . 2013
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Balloon mitral valvotomy in patients with mitral stenosis and left atrial thrombus

Groups and Associations C N Manjunath , K H Srinivasa, K S Ravindranath, J S Manohar, B Prabhavathi, P V Dattatreya, L Sridhar, C Dhanalakshmi
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2009
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Multiple fractures with pseudoaneurysm formation in a subclavian artery stent

Groups and Associations Ravi S Math , Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa, Ramesh Dwarakaprasad, Satish Karur, Shivakumar Bhairappa, Praveen Jayan J P, Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath
Circulation 2011
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A patient of Ebstein's anomaly associated with biventricular noncompaction presented with Wolf Parkinson White syndrome - A rare presentation

Groups and Associations Soumya Patra , Vivek Singla, Jayashree Kharge, Khandenahally S Ravindranath, Cholenahally N Manjunath
J Cardiovasc Dis Res 2012
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Spontaneous asymptomatic coronary artery dissection in a young man

Groups and Associations Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa , Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Ramesh Dwarakaprasad, Satish Karur, Geetha Bachahally Krishnanaik, Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa
J Cardiol . 2009
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Intracardiac thrombi in acute myeloid leukemia: an echocardiographic and autopsy correlation.

Groups and Associations Nanjappa MC, Shankarappa Ravindranath K, Kalpana SR, Bhat P, Moorthy N
Echocardiography 2010
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'Bird-beak sign' of left atrial thrombus: a guide to management.

Groups and Associations Singla V, Singh Y, Shankarappa Ravindranath K, Manjunath CN.
BMJ Case Rep 2013
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