Dr. A Venugopal

Qualification

MD, PhD

Experience

• Worked as Consultant Surgeon and Endoscopist at Semalk Hospital, Ottapalam.
• Worked as Visiting Consultant Surgeon at Shankar Hospital, Cherpulassery.
• Worked as Consultant Surgeon at PVS Memorial Hospital, Kochi till 2005.

Other Information

Publications and Presentations

• Management of CBD stones in the era of laparoscopic surgery- paper presented at National Conference of ISG-Varanasi 1995.
• Presented a poster- Pancreatic pseudoaneurysms in chronic pancreatitis, Annual Conference ISG-1996.
• Resection versus Drainage for intractable pain due to tropical pancreatitis- Annual Conference and CME of ISG Kerala chapter- judged as the best short paper of the conference.
• Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: results of parenchyma conserving hepatic resection. H Ramesh, Prakash K, A Venugopal, V Lekha, G Jacob. HPB Surgery (accepted manuscript NO 564).
• Primary tuberculous stricture of the oesophagus mimicking carcinoma. Prakash. K, K. Kuruvilla, V Lekha,
• A Venugopal, G Jacob, H Ramesh. Tropical Gastroenterology: 2001;22(3):143-144.
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis: factors associated with conversion. Prakash. K, G. Jacob, V. Lekha, A. Venugopal, B. Venugopal, and H. Ramesh. Surgical endoscopy. 2002;16(1):180-183.
• Port-site Tuberculosis after laparoscopy. Ramesh H, Prakash K, Lekha V, Jacob G, Venugopal A, Venugopal B. Surg Endosc 2003 Mar 7; [epub ahead of print]
• Are Some Cases of Infected Pancreatic Necrosis Treatable without Intervention? Ramesh H, Prakash K, Lekha V, Jacob G, Venugopal A: Dig Surg 2003;20:296-300 (DOI: 10.1159/000071694)