Publications

I.    ORIGINAL ARTICLES.

1.      Thrombolytic therapy for prosthetic cardiac valve thrombosis.     D.Rajasekhar  K.G.Balakrishnan  C.G.Venkatachalam  et al     Ind Heart J 1994:. 46;101-105. (1 citation)

2.      Primary Pulomary  Hypertension-Natural History and Prognostic factors. D. Rajasekhar, K.G,Balakrishnan, C.G.Venkatachalam  et al,  Ind  Heart J. 1994;       46; 165-170. (1 citation)

3.      Stress thallium perfusion imaging using oral Dipyridamole for detection of   coronary   artery disease D.Rajasekhar, K.M.Lakshmipathy,S.K. Agarwal and Y.Vijaychandra.  .Ind J Nucl Med,1996; 11;90-92,  .

4.      Closed  Mitral  Valvotomy versus Balloon Mitral Valvotomy – A  comparison   of 100   cases .   R.S.Iyer, R.Jain D.Rajasekhar et al  Asian Cardiovasc & Thoracic Annals1998;.6;285 –287..

5.      Early Beneficial Effect of Preservation of  Papillo-Annular Continuity in Mitral Valve Replacement on Left Ventricular Function. Dronamraju Dilip, Abha Chandra, Durgaprasad Rajasekhar, Manoj Padmanabhan J Heart Valve Dis 2001 .10.;294-301; .

6.      Coronary  Artery Bypass Grafting in severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction. D.Dilip., M.H. Rao, D. Rajasekhar, et al, Asian cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals; 2002 : 10: 211-214. (1 citation)

7.      Infection Etiology in Acute coronary syndromes, D. Rajasekhar,                    G. Subramaniam, SAA Latheef et al, Ind J Med Microbilogy, 2002:20;83-87. (3 citations)

8.      Immediate and follow-up hemodynamic results of percutaneous balloon mitral Valvotomy: D. Rajasekhar, A. Bhatt, K.G. Balakrishanan at al. Ind Heart J. 1994 : . 46; 3-5.

9.      Lipoprotein(a) : Better assessor of coronary heart disease risk of South Indian Population .. D. Rajasekhar, K.S.S. Saibaba, PVLNS. Rao, SAA Latheef and G. Subramanyam. Ind J of clinical Biochemistry, 2004: 19:53-59. (3 citations)

10.  Seroprevalance of lgG antibodies to Chlamydia pneumoniae prevalence and Helico bacter Pylori among coronary heart disease patients and normal individuals in South Indian population.  A Choudhary, D. Rajasekhar, SAA. Latheef, G. Subramanyam.  Ind J Pathol Microbiol 2004; 47.;433-34.

11.  Association of serumantioxidants and risk of coronary heart disease in South Indianpopulation.  D. Rajasekhar, SAA Latheef,KSS Saibaba, PVLNS Rao and G Subramanyam. Ind J Med .Sciences 2004;58; 465-471. (4 citations)

12.  Clinical and echocardiographic profile of patients with toxic myocarditis due to scorpion sting. D Rajasekhar and A Mohan, National Med J of India 2004; 17; 307-309. (4 citations)

13.  Pulmonary hypertension in hemodialysis patients.  Ch. Ramakrishna, SAA. Latheef, V. Vanaja, D. Rajasekhar, G. Subramanyam, Indian J of Nephrology 2006; 16; 168-169.

14.  High prevalence of birth defects in congenital Hyperthyroidism. P Amareesh Reddy, G Rajagopal, CV Harinarayana, V Vanaja, D Rajasekhar, V Suresh and Alok Sachan. International Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology, 2010:10.1155/2010/940980. (1 citation)

15.  Assesment of endothelial function by brachial artery flow mediated diatation in microvascular disease. OAK Naidu, D Rajasekhar and SAA Latheef. Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011, 9-40. (1 citation)

16.  Association of hyperhomocysteinemia and coronary artery disease in South Indian population. D Rajasekhar, PVLN Srinivasa Rao, SAA Latheef, G Subramanyam and KSS Saibaba. Indian J of Nutrition and Diatetics. 2006:43; 146-52.

17.  Serum adenosine deaminase and malondialdehyde as determinants of extent of myocardial reperfusion injury. Y. Dhanunjaya, **Aparna R. Bitla, **D. Rajashekhar, **M.M. Suchitra and **P.V.L.N. Srinivasa Rao. Biomedicine: 2011; 31(3): 411 – 414.

18.  Docking and Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Legionella pneumophilia MurB Reductase for Potential Inhibitor Design. Vani Priyadarshini, Dibhyabhaba Pradhan, Manne Munikumar, Ammineni Umamaheswari, D Rajasekhar and PVLN Srinivasa Rao. Biochem & Anal Biochem, 1:101 doi:10.4172/2161.-1009,1000101.

19.  Effect of percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty on left atrial appendage function :Transesophageal echo study. V Ganeshwar Reddy,D Rajasekhar ,V Vanajakshamma. Indian Heart journal :2012;64:462-468.

20.  High sensitivity C-reactive proteinlevels across spectrum and severity of coronary artery disease. S Guruprasad, DRajasekhar, G Subramanyam, PVLNS Rao, V Vanajakshamma & K Latheef.  J Clin Sci Res 2012; 3:126-30.

21.  Correlation of coronary artery disease angiographic severity with intima-media thickness of carotid artery Latheef K, Praveen M, Vanajakshamma V, Rajasekhar D. Journal Ind Coll Cardiol 2012; 2(4): 144-49.

22.  Factor V Leiden mutation is not a predisposing factor for acute coronary syndromes. Himabindu G, Rajasekhar D, Latheef K, Sarma PV, Vanajakshamma V, Chaudhury A, Bitla AR. Indian Heart J. 2012; 64(6):570-5.

23.  Assessment of mitral valve commissural morphology by transoesophageal echocardiography predicts outcome after balloon mitral valvotomy. Sarath Babu D, Ranganayakulu KP, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V, Pramod Kumar T. Indian Heart J. 2013; 65(3):269-75.

24.  Comparative tissue Doppler and catheterization study for assessing left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Haritha PNS, Vidya Sagar A, Latheef K, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V. Journal Ind Coll Cardiol 2012; 3(3): 93-98.

25.  Three dimensional Echocardiographic assessment before and after percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in patients with Rheumatic mitral stenosis. Shashanka C, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V, Sreenivasa Kumar ML. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2013; 22(4): 543-49.

26.  Magnetic resonance angiography vs. angiography in tetrology of Fallot. Venkateswara Rao U, Vanajakshamma V, Rajasekhar D, Lakshmi AY, Niranjan Reddy R. Asian Cardioivascular & Thoracic Annals 2013; 21: 418-25.

27.  In silico drug targets for infective endocarditis. Vani Priyadarshini, Dibyabhaba Pradhan, Manne Munikumar,Sandeep Swargam, Amineni Umamaheswari, D. Rajasekhar. Online Journal of Bioinformatics. 2013; 14(1):32-50.

28.  Molecular modelling, docking and dynamics studies of biotin carboxyl carrier protein of acetyl-CoA carboxylase to discover potential inhibitors. Priyadarshini V, Pradhan D, Munikumar M, Sandeep S,Umamaheswari A, Rajasekhar D. Journal of Clinical and Scientific Research. 04/2013; 2(2):72-80.

29.  Genome-based approaches to develop epitope-driven subunit vaccines against pathogens of infective endocarditis. Vani Priyadarshini, Dibyabhaba Pradhan, Manne Munikumar,Sandeep Swargam, Amineni Umamaheswari, D Rajasekhar. Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics 06/2013. DOI:

10.1080/07391102.2013.795871.

 

30.  The real world experience of the biodegradable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting coronary stent system: Results from an “all-comers” clinical experience. Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V, Shashank C, Srinivasakumar ML, Sivasankara C. Catheterization and cardiovascular intervention 2013. DOI: 10.1002/ccd.25246. (ACCEPTED)

31.  Effects of Statin Therapy on Endothelial Function in Asymptomatic Metabolic Syndrome. Buchi babu M, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V, Vinod kumar M, Latheef K, Ashok T. International Journal of clinical medicine 2014; 5:149-56. doi:10.4236/ijcm.2014.

32.  Clinical efficacy of l-carnitine in scorpion sting myocarditis: A randomized study. Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V, Ravikanth A, Praveen Kumar BS. Journal Ind Coll Cardiol 2014.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jicc.2014.01.008

 II    REVIEW ARTICLE

1.      Iron Status and Coronary artery  disease. D.Rajasekhar  and Abdul  Latheef. Current Advances in Atherosclerosis Research, Vol III 32-38, 2000.

2.      C-Reactive protein and coronary heart disease.  D. Rajsekhar, G. Subramanyam, SAA. Latheef.  Current advances in Atherosclerosis Research volume V 2003    .207-214.

3.      “Diabetes, Dyslipidemia and platelet function” D Rajasekhar & PNS Haritha,  in   Cardiology Update - 2009 ; 233-241.

4.      Electrocardiographic localization of infarct related coronary artery in acute ST- elevation myocardial infarction. Thejanandhan Reddy CS, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V. J Clin Sci Res 2013;2:151-60.

III        CASE REPORTS

1.      Ruptured hydatid cyst of right ventricular outflow tract. D.Rajasekhar, D.Dilip and   P.Manoj. Asian Cardiovasc and Thoracic Annals 1999;             7;161-63 .

2.      Aorto left atrial fistula following native aortic valve endocarditis.    D.Rajasekhar,           D.Dilip and P.Manoj.  Asian Cardiovasc and Thoracic Annals,1999;7:243-45.

3.      Anomalous  left anterior descending  coronary artery from right  common trunk. D. Rajasekhar, P. Ghosh A.Chandra and N.Raju. Asian Cardiovasc and  Thoracic  Annals. 1999;7:285-87.

4.      Ebstein’s  anomaly tricuspid valve in association with corctation of aorta. D. Rajasekhar, R.Raju, and D.C.Reddy.Ind Heart J : 2000, 52 : 599-600. (1 citation)

5.      Bilateral unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysms manifesting as transient complete heart block,  D. Rajasekhar, M. Praveen, S. Guruprasad, V. Mukesh and G. Subramanyam.  Asian Cardiovasc & Thoracic Annals 2005 ; 13’ 282-86.

6.      Thalamic disequilibrium syndrome after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.  R. Nandagopal, B. Vengamma, S.G. Krishnamoorthy, D. Rajasekhar, G. Subramanyam, Neurology 2005;           65 : 494. (1 citation)

7.      Anomalous Right coronary artery arising from left anterior descending artery. M L Srinivas Kumar, D Rajasekhar, V Vanajaksmamma & C Shashanka . J Clin Sci Res 2012; 3 :144-7.

8.      An unusual case of native  tricuspid valve endocarditis and sepsis in a child with structurally normal heart mimicking bronchopneumonia. D Rajasekhar, V Vanajakshamma, C Shashanka, ML Srinivas Kumar &  D Sarath Babu . J Clin Sci Res 2012;1:97-100.

9.      A rare coronary anomaly: Intercoronary communication between the circumflex and right coronary arteries. C. Shashanka, D. Rajasekhar, V. Vanajakshamma, M.L. Srinivas Kumar. Journal Ind Coll Cardiol 2012; 2(4): 167-69.

10.  Hyperdominant left anterior descending artery continuing as posterior descending artery: a rare coronary artery anamoly. Buchi Babu M, Rajasekhar D, Vanajakshamma V. CathLab Digest 2013; 21(1): 35-36.

11.  Right subclavian steal syndrome in a patient with aberrant right subclavian artery, common carotid trunk and hypoplastic left vertebral artery. Boochi Babu Mannuva, Rajasekhar Durgaprasad,Vanajakshamma Velam, Shashanka Chunduri, Vijayalajshmi Devi B. International Journal of Case Reports and Images. 01/2013.

IV     LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

1.      Seropositivity of Chlamydiae pneumoniae and Helicobacter pyiori among coronary disease patients and normal individuals in South Indian population.  D. Rajasekhar, A. Choudary, SAA. Latheef and G. Subramanyam. Ind Heart J:2003:55:384-385.

2.      Utility of Luminol enhanced neutrophil chemiluminescence in fulminant hepatic failure. D. Rajasekhar, SAA. Latheef, A. Sethi, Y. Chawla, JB Dilawari and N.K. Ganguly.  Ind J of .Gastroenterology 2004: 23:116.

3.      Cardiac and renal toxity to a herbal concotion.  S.P. Padmanabhan,              D. Rajasekhar, V. Siva Kumar.  Indian J of Nephrology 13; 114-115.