Dr. Sunil Raviraj K completed his MBBS from Narayana Medical College & Hospital, Nellore and pursued DNB General Medicine from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi. He completed his DrNB (GASTROENTEROLOGY) in Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Trivendrum 2017 – 2020
Dr. Sunil Raviraj Kothakota
(MBBS, DNB - Genaral Medicine, DrNB - Gastroenterology)
Consultant (Interventional Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist)
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education
- Completed MBBS from Narayana Medical College, Nellore AP, NTR University of Health Sciences Andhra Pradesh.
- Completed DNB General Medicine at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi from Ntional Board os Examinations.
- Senior Resident in General Medicine at Sir Ganga Ran City Hospital in Delhi
- Completed DNB Gastroenterology at Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences in Trivendrum at National Board of Examinations.
Experience
- Consultant Gastroenterologist at Apollo Healthcity Hospitals Visakapatnam Andhra Pradesh.
- Consultant Gastroenterologist at Medicover Hospital MVP Visakapatnam.
- Consultant Gastroenterologist of Fee for Service in Vizag and Srikakulam.
- Consultant Gastroenterologist Amara Hpospital in Tirupati.
CLINICAL INTEREST OR FOCUS OF WORK
Diagnostic & Therapeutic Endoscopy, Colonoscopy
- Acidity
- Diarrhoea
- Constipation
- Pain Abdomen etc.
Bleeding
- EVL Banding
- Glue Injection
- Clipping
- APC etc.
Hepatology
- Jaundice
- Viral Hepatitis (HAV, HBV, HCV etc.)
- Fatty Liver
- Liver Cancer
- Cirrhosis
- Liver Transplant Care
Pancreatology
- Acute/Chronic Pancreatitis
- Pancreas Cancers
- Pseudocyst Drainage etc.
Luminal GI
- IBS
- IBD (UIcerative colitis, Crohn's disease)
- Stomach and Colon Cancers
- Corrosive Injuries Care
Advanced Endoscopy
- ERCP (CBD stones, strictures, PD stones, Palliative Metallic stenting SEMS)
- Cholangioscopy Guided Large CBD Stones Removal
- Polypectomy
- PEG Feeding Tube Placemen
- Foreign body Removal (coins, batteries, bones etc.)
- Luminal Dilatations.
Diagnostic & Therapeutic Endosonography (EUS)
Esophageal Manometry
- 24 hour PH Monitoring
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy for Small Intestinal Lesions
Fibroscan
Pediatric Upper GI Endoscopy & Colonoscopy for all indications
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
- Pleural Effusion of Unusual Aetiology. JAPI Vol 62; Issue 02 (M Viswanathan Poster presentation: Respiratory medicine)
- Acute liver failure: Beyond King’s College Criteria: (Abstract No. 197) Indian Journal of Gastroenterology (November 2018) 37(Suppl 1):A1–A137 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-018-0911-4
- Carvedilol versus Carvedilol plus Variceal band ligation in Primary Prophylaxis of Variceal Bleeding – A Randomized Controlled Study. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Volume34, Issue S3: Supplement: Asia Pacific Digestive Week (APDW) Kolkata, India 12–15 December 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.14865. (PE 0243)
- Simultaneous ERCP plus Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Is it better than Early or Late laparoscopic cholecystectomy after ERCP: A Retrospective observational study. Volume34, Issue S3: Supplement: Asia Pacific Digestive Week (APDW) Kolkata, India 12–15 December 2019.doi:10.1111/jgh.14879. (PP 0251)
AWARDS
- First prize in oral presentation at APICON-2014: Luthiana
- DR P S Gupta award for Best Post Graduate in department of medicine at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New delhi: In 2015
- Dr J.C. Patel & Dr B.C. Mehta award for 2nd best case report for the year 2015, in Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI): Jan 2016.
- Best out going post graduate in Super specialty division for the year 2020 in Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum.
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
- Oral presentation: Series of hypokalemic paralysis of different etiologies: at Delhi API-2012
- Oral Presentation: Carbimazole toxicity: at Delhi API-2013
- Research Paper Presentation: Rituximab in Auto immune hemolytic anemia: at Delhi API 2014
- Oral Presentation: Gastricmucormycosis with HUS at APICON-2014;Luthiana.
- Poster presentation: Esthesioneuroblastoma and CMML with pleural effusion at APICON-2014;Luthiana.
- Poster presentation: Acquired hemophilia –A, at APICON-2015, Gurugram.
- Poster presentation: Acquired Factor VII deficiency at APICON-2015, Gurgaon.
- Poster presentation: Acute liver failure: Beyond King’s College criteria: at ISGCON Kochi: 2018.
- Oral Presentation: Simultaneous ERCP plus Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Is it better than Early or Late laparoscopic cholecystectomy after ERCP: A Retrospective observational study (APDW – 2019)
- Poster presentation: Carvedilol versus Carvedilol plus Variceal band ligation in Primary Prophylaxis of Variceal Bleeding – A Randomized Controlled Study (APDW 2019)
- Poster Presentation: Unusual causes of Gastric Ulcers (Mucor & IgG4 disease). In ISGCON Jaipur 2023.
PUBLICATIONS
Case reports & Original Articles
- Raviraj S, Gogia A, Kakar A, Byotra SP. Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis without Any Radiological Focal Lesion. Case Rep Med. 2015;2015:130209. doi:10.1155/2015/130209.
- Raviraj KS, Miglani P, Garg A, Agarwal PK. Gastric Mucormycosis with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. J Assoc Physicians India. 2015;63(10):75-76.
- Dass J, Gupta A, Kothakota SR, Agarwal PK, Bhargava M. Carbimazole Induced Agranulocytosis with Marked Marrow Plasmacytosis Mimicking Multiple Myeloma.Acta Endo (Buc) 2014, 10 (4): 671-677. doi: 10.4183/aeb.2014.671.
- Kakar A, Kothakota SR, Bashyam S, Gogia A. Bone Mineral Density in HIV / AIDS – A Case Control Study with Review of Literature Abstract. J HIV Retrovir. 2019;5(1):1–8. B
- Benjamine Khiangte, Madhu Sasidharan, Sunil Raviraj K, Harish Kareem, Subhash Chandra Joshi, Vijosh V Kumar, Abhilash H, Ajith K Nair. Bile Cast Nephropathy Complicating Non-Fulminant Acute Hepatitis A. Tropical Gastroenterology. Vol.40, No.1, January-March 2019.
- Jadhav PV, Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Nair AK. Effect of Donor Hepatic Steatosis on Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Liver Transplant Recipient. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2020;10(3):236-244. doi:10.1016/j.jceh.2019.07.004
- Sunil Raviraj Kothakota, Madhu Sasidharan, Harish Kareem, Ajith K Nair, Shabeerali TU, Vidya C. Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis Presented as SOL. Trop Gastroenterol. 2019 ; 40 ( 3 ): 340-342. http://dx.doi.org/10.7869/tg.547
- Sunil Raviraj Kothakota, Madhu Sasidharan, Harish Kareem, Ajith K Nair. Small Bowel Angiodysplasia Managed with Novel Motorized Spiral Enteroscope: A Case Report. Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2020; 11(02): 156-158. DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1713552
- Khiangte B, Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Nair AK, Kumar VV, Kanala JR, Kumar PC. Hepatitis B Reactivation in Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatitis B Virus Core Antibody Positive Grafts: a Retrospective Study. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2020 Nov-Dec;10(6):548-554. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2020.05.001
- Khiangte B, Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Joshi S, Kumar VV, Kanala JR, Kumar C P, Nair AK. Prevalence and determinants of hepatopulmonary syndrome in decompensated chronic liver disease. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2020 Aug;39(4):362-369. doi: 10.1007/s12664-020-01052-9.
- Kothakota Sunil Raviraj, Pooja Khosla, Kunal K Chawla and Sunila Jain. “Cryptococcal prostatic abscess in a HIV infected patient with immune reconstitutition inflammatory syndrome.” Current Medicine Research and Practice 10 (2020): 241 - 243.
- KOTHAKOTA, SUNIL RAVIRAJ; KHOSLA, POOJA; CHAWLA, KUNAL; JAIN, SUNIL. Cryptococcal prostatic abscess in a HIV infected patient with immune reconstitutition inflammatory syndrome. Current Medicine Research and Practice. 10(5):241-243, Sep-Oct 2020.
- Kothakota SR, Kumar Nair A, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Praveen Kumar C, Kanala J. Extrapulmonary Sarcoidosis Manifested as Cirrhosis with Portal Hypertension. Middle East J Dig Dis. 2021 Apr;13(2):160-162. doi: 10.34172/mejdd.2021.220.
- Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Nair AK, Kumar CP, Kanala J. Herpes simplex virus-2 related fulminant hepatic failure in liver transplant recipient: Case report. Journal of Medical Evidence. 2021; 2(3): 240-242.
- Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Nair AK, Shabeerali TU. Unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleeding; Jejunal Diverticula. Arab J Gastroenterol. 2022 Nov 5:S1687-1979(22)00063-6.
- Kumar VV, Kothakota SR, Nair AK, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Kanala J, Kumar CP. Impact of sarcopenia on post-liver transplant morbidity and mortality in cirrhotic patients. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2022 Oct;41(5):440-445.
- Kothakota SR; Nistala S; Boddepalli SB. Metastatic Ewing’s Sarcoma in Right Colon. Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2023; 14(01): 060-061. DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1762573
- Kumar CP, Kothakota SR, Sasidharan M, Kareem H, Nair AK, Kanala J. Role of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in acute pancreatitis: Retrospective analysis. Tropical Gastroenterology Journal. Trop Gastroenterol 2023;44(3):109-114.
- Jagadeswara Reddy Kanala, Sunil Raviraj Kothakota, Praveen Kumar, Madhu Sasidharan, Harish Kareem, Ajith K Nair. Vegetable Foreign Body In Common Bile Duct Manifested As Biliary Pancreatitis. Trop Gastroenterol 2023;44(3):127-129.
- Srinivas Muduganti, Sunil Raviraj Kothakota, Srinivas Nistala. Eosinophilic colitis presented as Sigmoid volvulus. Tropical gastroenterology. 45; (1); 47-48. (Jan-March 2024 issue)
- Sunil Raviraj Kothakota, Srinivas Nistala, Srujana Arolla. Cholangioscopy view of Biliary cystadenoma. Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2024; 15(01): 54-55. DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1779732.