Dr. Jai Raman

Can we use light to tell us things that we previously could not? Welcome to Spectroscopy & the work done by our Spectromix lab. Every...

Cardiopulmonary Bypass or CPB entails the use of the heart lung machine. This machine performs the work of the heart and lungs, thus...

yes Increasingly, we are seeing more patients with bleedingt problems, partly because the mainstay of many cardiovascular treatments UICj...

Making our hearts work better is an ongoing passion. This is an image of a minimally invasive off-pump bypass procedure. We first started...

May this be a transformative year for us all! As we contemplate cardiovascular disease, practice patterns & new developments it might be...

As surgeons we can see fat on the inside of the body! Most others, from physicians to radiologists to lay people just know about fat...

Please look at our exciting findings with multi-modal spectroscopic evaluation of the heart. Yes fat in the heart! Lipids in the Heart –...

For those of you who remember your biology, the Chrysalis the is the hard case enclosing the larva of the butterfly before it emerges...

John Charles Hargrave was a wonderfully inspiring human being and I am so glad to have been touched by him. John Charles Hargrave, MD...

Lead up statement: This study reports the 10 year outcomes of a patient-data level pooled analysis of randomized trials comparing the...

You have probably heard about EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), and those of you who are not doctors probably presume that a lot of what we...

If one was given the choice between a small hole in the groin, compared to a great big crack down the middle of the chest, there is no...

The late Dr Louis Cohen was a delightful man, and an incredibly caring cardiologist with a passion for squash, who was very well known at...

Yes, why not? Every other bone that is broken in the body is internally fixed with plates and screws. I am sure the medical members of...

Lets continue... The median or midline sternotomy was first studied and shown to be effective in goats in 1897. It was another 50 years...

Lets start with the sternum. This dagger shaped breast bone is the most commonly fractured bone in the body - because of heart surgery....

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