Dr. Rajesh Helavar is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist and Diag…read morenostic Abdominal Radiologist at Precison IR (Precision Interventional Radiology) at Spire clinic Malleshwaram. He started his career as a Consultant Radiologist in 2011at Columbia Asia Hospitals comes with a rich experience of more than 13 years in the field. Qualification:
Qualification:
MBBS Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore (2005)
Residency-MD Radiology: Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati, India 2011
Fellowship: PDCC – Gastro Radiology: Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (2014)
Observership in Abdominal Interventional Radiology, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Clinic, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (August 2014)
SMC Image-guided Tumor Ablation Training Course: Samsung Medical Centre, Seoul, South Korea (August 2016)
Observership in Interventional Radiology: University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine (November 2017)
International Intensive Course for Chemoembolization of HCC June 2023 – Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Non-vascular:
• Percutaneous biopsy under ultrasound and CT guidance
• Drainage of abscesses
• Biliary drainage
• Biliary stenting
• Percutaneous cholecystostomy
• Percutaneous nephrostomy
• Antegrade ureteric stenting
• Radiofrequency ablation of tumors (HCC, renal, bone, lung)
• Microwave ablation of tumors
• Wire localization of breast lesions. Vascular:
• Diagnostic angiography and venography
• Transjugular liver biopsy
• Transarterial chemoembolization of liver tumors (HCC, metastatic liver disease)
• Preoperative embolization of tumors
• Uterine artery embolization for post-partum bleeding
• Embolization for fibroids
• Embolization for gastrointestinal bleed
• Embolization for hemoptysis
• Peripheral vascular angioplasty and stenting,
• Peripheral venous access (PICC line, Chemoport, Permacath)
• Interventions for failing dialysis access and AV fistulas
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
Experience in Abdominal Radiology:
• Evaluation of liver and kidney donors
• Evaluation of liver and kidney recipients
• Evaluation of liver lesions in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients
• Evaluation of gallbladder and bile duct lesions
• Evaluation of pancreas
• Evaluation of bowel (enterography) in Crohn’s disease and tuberculosis
• Multiparametric MRI evaluation of prostate
• Abdominal angiography
• Pre surgical staging in pancreatic, hepatic, gall bladder, bile duct tumors
• Pre surgical evaluation of complex abdominal hernias
Publications:
• 1. Imaging in Portal Gastroduodenopathy, Review article, Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.
• 2. Systematic reporting of computed tomography enterography /enteroclysis as an aid to reduce diagnostic dilemma when differentiating between intestinal tuberculosis and Crohns disease: A prospective study at a tertiary care hospital, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. December 2020.
• 3. Certificate of Merit: Echinococcosis from head to toe: A Pictorial review – poster presentation at European Congress of Radiology 2018.
• 4. Imaging in rare spine and spinal cord malformations in day-to-day practice – poster presentation at European Congress of Radiology 2018.
• 5. Post-partum Interventions presentation at Karnataka state IRIA (Indian Radiology and Imaging Association) 2018
• 6. Canal of Nuck hydrocele poster presentation at Karnataka IRIA 2018
• 7. Post digital subtraction angiography parenchymal contrast staining mimicking the presence of a hemorrhage, Neurology India, 2017
• 8. Individualizing locoregional therapy for liver tumors. Hospital Healthcare Europe 2015.
• 9. Renal transplant imaging: Review. Indian Journal of transplant: 2014.
• 10. Combined interventional and surgical management of bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms. IRIA poster presentation. 2014.
• 11. Ovarian Torsion: Poster Presentation at State IRIA conference March 2015.
• 12. Chemotherapy induced leukoencephalopathy – American Journal of Neuroradiology –Classic Case 2016
• 13. Imaging of Hydatid disease from head to toe: Poster presentation, IRIA 2016
Book Chapter:
• Textbook on fibroids, Chapter – Uterine artery Embolization for fibroids, January 2018, CBS Publishers
Current position:
Senior Consultant – Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology – Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur and Hebbal, Bengalururead less