Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

Senior Consultant

21 Years of Experience

HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon

MBBS, MS, M.Ch, FRCR

Rela Hospital, Chennai

English, Hindi, Tamil

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About Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam is an esteemed Hepato Pancreatic Biliary (HPB) and liver transplantation surgeon with 21 years of experience.
He is proficient in pediatric liver transplantation.
His areas of expertise include portal hemodynamics, liver regeneration, donor hepatectomy, management of hepatopancreatic biliary malignancies, advanced resections for HPB malignancies, and vascular resections.
He is skilled in laser piles surgery, sclerotherapy for varicose veins, inguinal hernia surgery, umbilical hernia surgery, and gall stones surgery (open cholecystectomy).
Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam excels in laser surgery for fissures, laser fistula surgery, total thyroidectomy, and laser treatment for varicose veins.
He completed his MBBS from Tirunelveli Medical College in 2003, and he pursued an MS from JIPMER, Pondicherry, in 2007
He attained an MCh in gastrointestinal surgery from GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, in 2011.
Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam has also pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Liver Transplantation at Global Hospital, Chennai.
He has academic articles published in several reputable journals, including Indian J Gastroenterol.

Education

MBBS, Tirunelveli Medical College, Tirunelveli, 2003
MS in General Surgery, JIPMER, Pondicherry, 2007
MCh in Gastrointestinal Surgery, G B Pant Hospital, New Delhi, 2011
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Liver Transplantation, Global Hospital, Chennai, 2013

Past Experience

Senior Resident, JIPMER, Pondicherry, 2008
Consultant, Gleneagles Global Hospital

Awards

Gold Medal in Anatomy, MBBS
Best Poster Award, IHPBA Delhi, 2010

Paper Published

He has numerous publications. Some of his papers published are:

Rajesh R, Basu A, Sistla SC, Jagdish S, Thappa DM, Badhe BA. Degos' disease: acute abdomen with skin rash. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2006 Jul-Aug;25(4):187. PMID: 16974032.
Sistla S, Rajesh R, Sadasivan J, Kundra P, Sistla S. Does single-dose preoperative dexamethasone minimize stress response and improve recovery after laparoscopic cholecystectomy? Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2009 Dec;19(6):506-10. doi: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181bd9149. PMID: 20027097.
Rajalingam R, Saluja SS, Sharma A, Mishra PK. Post cholecystectomy gossypiboma: a malignant masquerade. Am Surg. 2011 May;77(5):E94-5. PMID: 21679580.
Mishra PK, Saluja SS, Gupta M, Rajalingam R, Pattnaik P. Blumgart's technique of pancreaticojejunostomy: an appraisal. Dig Surg. 2011;28(4):281-7. doi: 10.1159/000329584. Epub 2011 Jul 29. PMID: 21811074.
Rajalingam R, Javed A, Gondal R, Arora A, Nag HH, Agarwal AK. Non-familial double malignancy of the colon and ampulla of Vater: a case report and review of literature. Saudi J Gastroenterol. 2012 Mar-Apr;18(2):143-5. doi: 10.4103/1319-3767.93823. PMID: 22421722; PMCID: PMC3326977.
Rajalingam R, Javed A, Agarwal AK. Revision shunt for Budd-Chiari syndrome. Trop Gastroenterol. 2012 Apr-Jun;33(2):160-3. doi: 10.7869/tg.2012.41. PMID: 23025071.
Rajalingam R, Javed A, Sharma D, Sakhuja P, Singh S, Nag HH, Agarwal AK. Management of hypersplenism in non-cirrhotic portal hypertension: a surgical series. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int. 2012 Apr;11(2):165-71. doi: 10.1016/s1499-3872(12)60143-x. PMID: 22484585.
Kumar V, Rajalingam R, Saluja SS, Chander Sharma B, Mishra PK. Unusual proximal migration of biliary plastic endoprostheses into the inferior vena cava. Am Surg. 2012 Dec;78(12):E520-2. PMID: 23265107.