Dr. Rajesh V Helavar

Dr. Rajesh V Helavar

Senior Consultant Radiologist - Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

MBBS, MD, FRCR

About

Experience in Interventional Radiology:

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:

  • Certificate of Merit: Echinococcosis from head to toe: A Pictorial review – poster presentation at European Congress of Radiology 2018.
  • Imaging in rare spine and spinal cord malformations in day to day practice – poster presentation at European Congress of Radiology 2018.
  • Post-partum Interventions presentation at Karnataka state IRIA(Indian Radiology and Imaging Association) 2018
  • Individualizing locoregional therapy for liver tumours. Hospital Healthcare Europe 2015.
  • Renal transplant imaging: Review. Indian Journal of transplant: 2014.
  • 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

Invited talks:

  • Liver biopsy and drainage – Dr Harnam Singh Midterm CME of IRIA, Hubli, Karnataka August 2019.
  • Abdominal wall tumors and tumor like lesions – Indian Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 3rd National Conference – Kochi, Kerala, India – September 2019
  • Complex abdominal wall hernias – Indian Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 2nd National Conference – New Delhi, India – September 2018
  • An approach to malaena and characterization of benign bowel tumors – Indian Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 1st National Conference – Chennai, India – August 2017
  • Dialysis access interventions – Clinical Interventional Radiology Conference, Karnataka, 2018
  • Role of Interventional Radiology in Obstetrics and Gynecology for uterine fibroids and post-partum hemorrhage at Bangalore Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, October 2017.
  • Interventional radiology in pulmonology – CME in Imaging of pulmonary diseases at MS Ramaiah Medical College, January 2016.
  • Imaging in Liver transplantation – Karnataka Chapter of Indian Radiology and Imaging Association, Bangalore Karnataka – July 2016
  • Interventional Radiology in Urology – Bangalore Urological Society – October 2016.

Current Positions/Titles:

  • Senior Consultant - Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group
  • Specialist Interventional Radiology – Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

Professional Memberships:

  • European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
  • Indian Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
  • Indian Radiology and Imaging Association
  • Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
  • European Society of Radiology
  • Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe
  • Society of Interventional Radiology
  • Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Eleventh rank in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the university exam conducted by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore in the year 2004.
  • Twelfth rank in Pediatrics in the university exam conducted by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore in the year 2004.