Vigneshwar Kasirajan
Vigneshwar Kasirajan, M.D.
1200 E Broad Street
West Hospital,PO Box 980068, South Wing, 7th Floor
Richmond, VA 23298-0068
United States
1 804 828-4620
1 804 628-0537 (Fax)
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Institutional Affiliation
- VCU Health System(MCV Hospital)
Specialty
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- General Thoracic Surgery
Background
- Madras Medical College, Madras, India (M.D. 1987)
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation General Surgery (1991-1996)
- Cleveland Clinic Cardiothoracic Residency (1996-2000)
- Heart failure and Transplantation Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic
- Chief CT Surgery, Richmond Veterans Medical Center
- Director of Heart Transplantation, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and Richmond VAMC
- Chair, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at VCU Medical Center
Interests
- heart and lung transplantation
- assist devices
- alternatives to transplantation for heart failure
- aortic surgery
- valve repair procedures
- coronary surgery including complex re-operations
- arrythmia surgery including maze procedure
- Health Care Policy, and reform
- Cardiopulmonary bypass and use of novel anticoagulants
- Blood conservation
Last Modified: 9-Mar-2006
