Dr. Renjith S.
Assistant Professor
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Academic Qualifications

MRCS- Royal College of Surgery, Edinburgh

Mch CVTS- SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram

MS General surgery- Govt Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram

MBBS- Govt Medical college Thiruvananthapuram

Area of Interest

Adult Cardiac Surgery, Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplant, Cardiovascular research

Fellowships

FARIS- Fellowship in Advanced Robotic and Innovative Surgery from ARIS, SRIHER accredited by RCSEd

Membership

Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons, Association of Surgeons of India, Indian Medical Association, Society for Heart Failure and Transplantation

On-going Projects

Co-investigator in Titanium Chitra Heart Valve Study (TC2). The pilot human trial of the second generation of TTK Chitra valve was completed successfully in 40 patients. Follow up of the patients is going on. Short term follow-up results are promising. Multi-centre trial is due to commence shortly.

Professional Experience

August 2023 ? till date:- Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India. December 2022- August 2023:- Assistant Professor, Department of CTVS, AIIMS NEW DELHI. 2019- 2022:- Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Desertations Supervised

? Comparative Study of Short-term Outcome of Off Pump CABG Versus On Pump Beating Heart CABG in Patients with Moderate to Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction: A Retrospective study. ? Comparison of the effective orifice area of prosthetic aortic valves using two-dimensional versus three-dimensional echocardiography. ? Long term outcomes of RSOV repair. ? Evaluation of changes in left atrial strain due to insertion of transesophageal echocardiography probe in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. ? The Effects of Left Stellate Ganglion Block on LIMA Flow and LV Function in Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization.

Major Achievements

? Organising and scientific committee member ? IACTS Midterm GB and Cardiac CME 2025, Thiruvananthapuram. (National conference) ? Co ? Investigator in clinical PILOT study of TTK Chitra ? Titanium heart Valve (model TC2) ? Member of heart transplant team at SCTIMST ? Joint organising secretary of HFAI- 2022, 8th Annual conference of Heart failure Association of India (National conference) ? Reviewer of Journal of medical case reports ? Reviewer of Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery ? Reviewer of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders ? Worked as the editorial assistant for the Kerala Surgical Journal in 2015.

Organisational Activities

? Organising and scientific committee member ? IACTS Midterm GB and Cardiac CME 2025, Thiruvananthapuram. (National conference) ? Joint organising secretary of HFAI- 2022, 8th Annual conference of Heart failure Association of India (National conference). ? Program Coordinator for the MCh CVTS batch- 2021, 2023, and 2024. ? Program coordinator for the CVTS session of the MTech Clinical engineering students ? Member of the annual report committee of the institute. ? Member of the Medical Records and Documentation Review committee of the institute. ? Member of the Pharmacovigilance and Therapeutic committee of the institute. ? Nodal Officer for Simulation lab

Presentations

? Speaker at IACTS Midterm GB and Cardiac CME 2025 (National Conference), Thiruvananthapuram. ? Speaker at 27th Annual conference of Egyptian Cardiothoracic society (International conference), Ismailia Egypt. ? Speaker at state level nursing conference- Unlocking the gateways of Aortic surgery, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram. ? Speaker at ARIS 2024, New Delhi, (National conference) First Annual Conference of Association of Robotic and Innovative surgeons of India. ? Speaker at state level conference, Valvular heart surgery Nursing updates on 26th March 2022, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram ? Speaker at IACTS TECHNOCOLLEGE 2021 (National Conference).

Reviewer

? Reviewer of Journal of medical case reports ? Reviewer of Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery ? Reviewer of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Publications

Article

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1. Radhakrishnan BK, Sreekantan R, Panicker VT, Karunakaran J, Outcomes of Mitral Valve Replacement after Closed Mitral Valvotomy: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Heart Surg Forum , 2019,
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Pillai VV, Sreekantan R, Nemani N, Karunakaran J, Survival and long-term outcomes after concomitant mitral and aortic valve replacement in patients with rheumatic heart disease. , Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2020,
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Panicker VT, Sreekantan R, Lokanath N, Preoperative Mitral Annulus Size ? Can We Get It Right?, Ann Card Anaesth , 2020,
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Panicker, V., Sreekantan, R. & Kotera, S. S, Taming of the Tiger: A Novel Technique to Deal with Mitral Annular Calcification ?A Case Series, The Heart Surgery Forum, 2020,
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Pillai VV, Sreekantan R, Karunakaran J, Quantitative estimation of LIMA blood flow between extraluminal papavarine vs extraluminal papavarine plus intraluminal vasodilator cocktail in CABG patients., Ann Card Anaesth, 2020,
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Panicker VT, Sreekantan R, Kotera SS, Flexible or rigid ring in mitral annuloplasty-do the results differ? , Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2020,
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Pillai V, Sreekantan R, Chisthi MM, Gall bladder stones and the associated histopathology? a tertiary care centre study, Int J Res Med Sci , 2017,

Case Report

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Palaniraj, Sureshkumar; Sreekantan, Renjith; Pillai, Vivek V. , Coronary Stent Abscess Forming Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare Case Report, Heart Failure Journal of India , 2025,
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Varsha A, Babu S, S S, A J, Dash PK, Sreekantan R, Transesophageal echocardiography guided optimal positioning of central venous catheter tip in superior vena cava during surgical repair of sinus venosus atrial septal defect., The Journal of Vascular Access. , 2021,
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Alex A, Ayyappan A, Valakkada J, Pillai VV, Sreekantan R, Poyuran R, Pericardial pseudocyst along atrioventricular groove, BJR Case Rep , 2020,
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Renjith S, Kulshrestha K, AnilKumar S , Ileosigmoid Knotting- A rare case of Intestinal obstruction., Kerala Surg J , 2015,
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Pruthvi S. Patel, Vivek pillai, Varghese T. Panicker, Renjith, A rare case of redo aortic root enlargement redo sternotomy + redo avr with 19 ttk chitra + konno anterior root enlargement + cabg (rsvg to rca), , International journal of scientific research, 2024,

Letter

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Nath, S Keerthy; Khajuria, Udit; Unnikrishnan, KP; Renjith, S, Novel Application of Ultrasound for Retrieval of Retained Pacing Wire, Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia , 2025,