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Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

Senior Consultant 
22 Years of Experience
HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon
Rela Hospital, Chennai
MBBS, MS, M.Ch, FRCR

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.

Awards of Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

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

Paper Published by Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

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.

Experience of Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

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

Education of Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

  • 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

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