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Dr. Ramakrishnan S

MBBS, MD (Gen-Medicine), DM (Nephrology)

Sr. Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Physician

Experience : 38+ Years

Hospitals : NU Hospitals, Padmanabhanagar, Bengaluru

Specialities : Nephrology, General Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis, Kidney Transplant, Renal (Kidney) Biopsy, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Preventive Nephrology, Nephropathology, Plasmapheresis,

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Dr. S. Ramakrishnan is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and is the Head of department Nephrology at NU Hospitals, Bangalore completed MBBS in Thanjavur Medical College in 1985 and postgraduate in General Medicine in Stanley Medical College Chennai in 1990. He is interested in all branches of General Medicine and chose Nephrology for further specialization as this field had a connection with all other branches of General Medicine. He completed the higher speciality course in Madras medical College in 1995. After a brief experience as Tutor of Nephrology in a teaching hospital and subsequently as Specialist in Nephrologist in a Middle East country, he joined NU Hospitals in 2004.

His special interest includes the evolution of better infection control practices and safety practices in the patient’s environment and demography of patients with kidney disease. With significant help from the Hospital, a number of policies and protocols on infection control have been developed and implemented. One of the major outcomes of these practices was significant reduction in the incidence of Hepatitis C infection, a blood-borne viral infection that can be transmitted among patients on maintenance haemodialysis (this infection had been a Nephrologists’ nightmare until the development of newer antiviral drugs for the treatment a couple of years ago) over the past few years.

Awards and Recognition

Nephrology service for 2 decades - Southern ChapterIndian Society of Nephrology (2020)

Best of Clinical Audits - CAHOCON (2018)

Clinical Experience

Experience in Clinical Trails

An open-label prospective study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of rHuEPO (CIMAB, Cuba) in patients either on dialysis or non-dialysis for the management of anemia in chronic kidney disease. Co investigator – Dr.Ramakrishnan in the year 2005

GRID Study in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School. Co investigator – Dr.Ramakrishnan in the year 2011

Professional Membership

Life member of the Indian Society of Nephrology (ISN)
Member of the Southern Chapter – Indian Society of Nephrology (SC-ISN)

Presentations

Pulmonary Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients
Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Recipients
Primary Hyperoxaluria - Our Experience
Post-transplant Survival in the Lower Socio-economic Strata
Lupus Nephritis - Our Experience
Post transplant Diabetes Mellitus
3 Year Survival in Renal Transplant Recipients
Mortality in Diabetic Renal Transplant Recipients
HD in elderly
Ig A Nephropathy – Our experience
Assessment of Nutritional status in HD patients
Recovery of Renal Function in Obstructive Renal Failure - ISNSCCON 2010, Pondicherry
Fistulogram in the management of AVF complications - ISNSCCON 2010, Pondicherry
ICU admissions in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease - ISNSCCON 2012, Chennai
Renal Transplantation in ADPKD - our experience - ISNSCCON 2012, Chennai
Antibiogram of culture positive urine isolates – ISNSCCON 2013, Vijayawada
CMV disease in renal transplant recipients - ISNSCCON 2013, Vijayawada
Comparative study of diabetic and non diabetic end stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis - ISNCON 2013, New Delhi
Vascular access audit - ISNCON 2013, New Delhi
Why is arteriovenous fistula getting delayed? - ISNSCCON 2014, Bengaluru
Arteriovenous fistula interventions – are they successful? - ISNSCCON 2014, Bengaluru
Clinical audit on the incidence of Hepatitis C infection in hemodialysis unit – ISNSCCON 2015, Calicut
Comparison of outcomes on Tacrolimus and Cyclosporine based immunosuppressive regimens in renal transplant recipients – ISNSCCON 2015, Calicut
Comparative study of patients less than and more than 60 years on maintenance hemodialysis – ISNCON 2015, Bengaluru
Hyponatremia in a tertiary care Nephrology Urology unit - ISNCON 2015, Bengaluru
Dialysis after renal allograft loss – ISOT 2016, Chandigarh
Outcome of renal transplantation in Ig A nephropathy - ISOT 2016, Chandigarh
ISN SC 2016 Trichy – February 2016
- Oral presentation on Renal allograft loss: a single-center experience – awarded second prize
- Author for oral presentation on Comparison of outcomes on Tacrolimus versus Cyclosporine based immunosuppressive
  regimes in renal transplant recipients ISNSCCON 35th Annual Conference in Calicut – awarded second prize
Clinical audit in management of CLABSI - ISNCON 2017, New Delhi
Hospital admissions in patients on dialysis - ISNCON 2017, New Delhi
ISNSCCON 2017 Pondicherry – February 2017
- Co author for oral presentation on MRSA prevalence and use of Vancomycin in a tertiary care Nephrology Urology Hospital (won best paper award)
Fractures in patients on dialysis - ISNCON 2018, Bhubaneswar
Early Arteriovenous fistula creation – a myth or truth - ISNCON 2018 Bhubaneswar
Outcome of AVF – Our experience – ISNCON 2019, Chandigarh
PD drop out - Our experience – ISNCON 2019, Chandigarh
Privileging in the dialysis unit – ISNSCCON 2020, Bengaluru
Audit on empirical antibiotic use in PD peritonitis – how important is it - ISNSCCON 2020, Bengaluru

Publications

Ullur AR, Modi SV, Nayak NM, Santanaraman R,Rangarajan D, Subramanian P. Bilateral superior parathyroid adenoma postkidney donation: A riddle, well, solved!! - A case report. Indian J Transplant 2021; 15:184-7.
Dilip Rangarajan, Ramprasad Ramalingam, Ramakrishnan S, Kiran Chandra Patro. Safety Practices in Haemodialysis Unit. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. July 2020; 68(7):74.
Kiran Chandra Patro, S Ramakrishnan, Roopa J, R Dilip. Comparison of Patient and Graft Survival in Tacrolimus versus Cyclosporine based immunosuppressive regimes in renal transplant recipients – Single Center experience from South India. Indian Journal of Transplantation.2018July; 12(3):165-8. (Review Article)
http://www.ijtonline.in/article.asp?issn=2212-0017;year=2018;volume=12;issue=3;spage=165;epage=168;aulast=Patro
Case report: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease in Children. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation. 2016; 27(6):1242-45.
Survival analysis of patients on maintenance hemodialysis; Indian J Nephrol Volume 24;No.4: 2014:PP 206-213 (Review Article)
A study of impact of cost-effective nutritional supplement in patients on maintenance hemodialysis; Indian J Nephrol Volume 24;No.4; 2014:Pp 222-225(Review Article)
Girish P Vakrani, S Ramakrishnan, Dilip Rangarajan. Acute Renal Failure in Diabetes Mellitus (Prospective Study); J Nephrol Ther 2013;3(3).
Membranous Nephropathy and Graves’ Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review; J Nephrol Ther Vol. 3: 133: 2013
Post transplant thrombotic microangiopathy causing acute renal failure; Indian Journal of Nephrology 2009; 19; 74-76 (Case Report)
Syndrome of Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis; JAPI VOL. 57: 2009; 177-179 (Case Report)
Intraperitoneal bladder rupture mimicking acute renal failure in Indian Journal of Nephrology: Vol. 18 (1): 2008: Page 26-27. (Case Report)

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