Dr. M Sudhakar Rao
Consultant – Cardiology
Qualification
MD | DM (Cardiology) | FACC | FESC | FSCAI
Languages Spoken
Kannada | English | Hindi | Telugu
About Me
Overview
Dr M Sudhakar Rao is an Interventional Cardiologist, currently working as a Consultant Cardiologist in Manipal hospital Old Airport Road Bangalore.He served as Associate Professor in Kasturba medical College Manipal and currently is a Adjunct Faculty of MAHE, Manipal. He passed his MD( Internal medicine) and DM( Cardiology) both from reknowed KMC Manipal. Apart from interventions, he has keen interest in academics , research and publications. He has more than 70 publications in national and international peer reviewed journals with more than 100 citations and is reviewer of many peer reviewed journals.
Clinical experience/skills
- Imaging And Physiology Guided Coronary Interventions
- AV fistula Access Angioplasty
- Complex Coronary Lesions Bifurcations
- Complete Total Occlusions And Rotational Atherectomy
- Vast Experience with Central Vein Interventions and Carotid Artery Interventions
- Peripheral Angioplasty including Subclavian, Renal, Iliac, Femoral, and Infra Popliteal Lesions
- Comprehensive Management ofA Heart Failure
Higher Education & Qualifications
- DM Cardiology: August 2014 to July 2017 , Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
- MD: Internal Medicine: Kasturba Medical College Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 2011- 2014
- MBBS: Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences , Bilaspur, Guru Ghasidas University, September 2005 to March 2010
- Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC)
- Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
- Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Career History
- Worked as Assistant Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (October 2017 – January 2020)
- Working as Associate Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (February 2020 – January 2023)
- 3-year residency in Cardiology in Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (8/2014 – 7/2017)
- 3 Year residency in Internal Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (5/2011 – 4/2014)
- Nine months training in Clinical Postings from Church of South India Hospital , Bangalore and one and two months training in Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology respectively from Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences, ,Bilaspur , including Rural posting in Primary Health Centre & Rural Health Centre(4/2010 – 3/2011)
Clinical experience/skills
Interventional cardiology
- Independently performed more than 10000 coronary angiograms with more than two third using radial access.
- Performed more than 5000 angioplasties mainly through trans radial access
- Performed more than 1000 primary PCI independently.
- More than 250 IABP insertion independently.
- Performed more than 1000 IVUS guided PCI/200 OCT guided PCI
- Pacemaker and ICD Implantation
- IVC filter insertion
- Balloon mitral valvotomies
- Complex coronary lesions including bifurcation( and LMCA bifurcations) , complete total occlusions and Rotablation
- Device closure of ASD and PDA
- Largest single center experience of Dialysis fistula Interventions (through trans-radial access in South Asia
- Vast experience on Central vein interventions
- Special interest in Carotid artery interventions
- Peripheral angioplasties including subclavian, renal, aorta, iliac, femoral and infrapopliteal arteries (focus on imaging guided peripheral intervention)
Others
- Comprehensive management of heart failure
- Special interest on cardiac imaging including cardiac CT and MRI
Teaching experience
- Assistant Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (October 2017 – January 2020)
- Associate Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal (January 2020 – Jan 2023)
- Consultant Cardiologist in Manipal Hospital , Old Airport Road Bangalore(Jan 2023- Till Now)
Journal Reviewer
- Indian Heart Journal
- Current Drug Metabolism
- Journal Of Clinical Diagnostic and Research
- Current Psychopharmacology
- Echocardiography
- IPEJ
Lifetime Member
Cardiology Society of India
Indian Academy of Echocardiography
Indian Association of Cardiac Imaging
Teaching experience
- Assistant Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal (October 2017 – January 2020)
- Associate Professor in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal (January 2020 – Jan 2023)
- Consultant Cardiologist in Manipal Hospital , Old Airport Road Bangalore(Jan 2023- Till Now)
Awards & Achievements
- Lt Dr Arun Kusgal Gold Medal for the best outgoing post graduate student in Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.
- Gold Medal for the best outgoing student in M.B.B.S., Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences , Bilaspur , Chhattisgarh , India
- Awarded 2nd prize for API Inter Collegiate Post Graduate quiz during KAPICON-2013 , Karnataka , India
ONGOING AND COMPLETED PROJECTS
- Clinical profile and outcomes of restrictive cardiomyopathy at a tertiary care hospital in South India
- Clinical profile and outcomes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cardiomyopathy at a tertiary care hospital in South India
- Prevalence and predictors of RVMI in patients with inferior wall MI
- Prevalence and predictors of sleep disordered breathing in patients with heart failure
- Prevalence and predictors of coronary artery disease in patients undergoing valve surgery for non-coronary indications.
- Effect of Sacubitril-valsartan on diastolic strain parameters in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction(three months follow up study)
- Effect of SGLT2 inhibitors on echocardiographic parameters in patients with T2DM and ST elevation myocardial infarction(three months follow up study)
- Effect of SGLT2 inhibitors on echocardiographic parameters in patients without T2DM and heart failure(three months follow up study)
- Outcomes of proximal DVT in patients with and without IVC filter
- Correlation of coronary artery size by QCA and left ventricular mass among subjects with normal coronary angiographic study
- Association between invasively measured central aortic pressure in patients undergoing angiography and left ventricular diastolic function by echocardiography
- Ventricular myocardial mechanics in Liver cirrhosis- A case control study.
- Cardiac manifestations of Leptospirosis
- Cardiac manifestations of COVID 19 infection
- Cardiac manifestations of Scrub typhus
- Cardiac manifestations of Dengue fever
- Cardiac involvement in patients with Beri-Beri
