Papers Presented in Conferences

I. NATIONAL CONFERENCES

1.      Thrombolytic therapy for prosthetic valve thrombosis  at  the 45^th Annual  Cardiological society of India( CSI ) conference held at Chennai in  Dec. 1993.

2.      Primary pulmonary hypertension –Natural history and  prognostic factors at the 45^th Annual conference of CSI held at Chennai in Dec. 1993.

3.      Stress thallium myocardial imaging using oral dipyridamole for detection of coronary artery disease at the 27^th Annual conference of  the Society of Nuclear Medicine held at Tirupati  in Nov 1995.

4.      Short term follow up results of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy at  the 48^th Annual conference of the CSI held at  Bangalore  in Oct 1996.

5.      Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty for rheumatic mitral stenosis – Immediate and follow up results, at the 44^th Annual conference of the CSI held at Delhi in Nov 1992.

6.      Factors determining outcome in percutaneous transvenous mitral    commissurotomy using Inoue balloon catheter, at the 46^th Annual   conference of the CSI held at Jaipur     in Dec 1994.

7.      “Mitral valvuloplasty in patients aged above 40 years” at the 4^th Annual conference of the ICC held at Hyderabad in June 1997.

8.      Comparative results of balloon mitral valvuloplasty using Inoue and Accura balloons, at the 49^th Annual conference of the CSI held at Calcutta in Nov 1997.

9.      Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in mitral restenosis,     at the 50^th Annual conference of the CSI held at Mumbai in Dec 1998.

10.  Efficacy of l-carnitine therapy in myocarditis due to scorpion sting at the 50th Annual conference of the CSI held at Mumbai in Dec 1998.

11.  Efficacy of l-carnitine therapy in myocarditis due to scorpion sting at the   6^th Annual conference of ICC held at Varanasi in July 1999.

12.  Initial experience with percutaneous mitral commissurotomy using a metallic device, at the 6^th Annual conference of ICC held at Varanasi in July 1999.

13.  Five year follow up results of PTMC at the 51^st Annual conference of the CSI   held at   Delhi in Dec 1999.

14.  Clinical presentation and risk factor profile of 101 patients of AMI, at the 12th Annual conference of ISAR held at Tirupati in Dec 1999.

15.  Clinical and predischarge coronary angiographic profile of patients of Acute myocardial infarction, at the 7^th annual conference of the ICC held at Bangalore in Oct 2000.  

16.  Infectious etiology of acute coronary syndromes at the 52^nd annual conference of  the  CSI held at Chennai in Dec 2000.

17.  “Correlation between Lipid tetrad Index and angiographic severity of coronary atherosclerosis” at the 8^th Annual Conference of ICC held at Bhuvaneswar in Oct 2001.

18.  Serum Homocysteine and angiographic severity of coronary atherosclerosis-at the 54^th annual conference of the cardiological society of India held at Kochi in Dec 2002.

19.  Serum Lp(a) levels and angiographic severity of coronary atherosclerosis at the 54^th annual conference of the cardilogical society of India held at Kochi in Dec 2002.

20.  Serum Tocopheral is a significant predictor .of coronary heart disease in South Indian Population at the 56^th Annual Conference of CSI held at Bangalore in Dec 2004.

21.  Association of Anthorpometry and coronary artery disease in South Indian Population at the 56^th Annual conference of CSI held at Bangalore in December 2004.

22.  Correlation of serum nitric oxide levels with coronary angiographic vessel severity at the 57^th annual CSI conference held at Mumbai in Dec 2005.

II.        STATE CONFERENCES:

1.       Diagnosis and management of cardiac prosthetic valve thrombosis -  SVIMS experience: at the mid term conference of association of  Physicians of India-AP chapter held at Tirupati in Sept  1995.

2.       Immediate results of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy – SVIMS experience  at the I mid term conference AP chapter of CSI at  Tirupati in March 1996.

3.       “Controversy – Hemocysteinemia is a risk factor for CAD (AGAINST)” at the 7^th Annual Conference of CSI-AP chapter held at Hyderabad between 27^th & 28^th April 2002.

4.       Correlation between Sel\Lp(a) levels and coronary angiographic atherosclerosis severity” at the 7^th Annual Conference of CSI-AP chapter held at Hyderabad between 27^th & 28^th April 2002.