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Dr. Saravanan T

Dr. Saravanan T Head of the Department of General Medicine

Designation HoD & Professor
Experience Joined the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatoreas Assistant professor of Medicine in May 2002 and promoted as Associate Professor in May 2007 , From August 2008 to June 2011 worked as Junior Medical Consultant in the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at Raja IstheriPengiranAnakSaleha Hospital (RIPAS Hospital) Brunei Darussalam , From May 2007 till July 2008 and from July 2011 until 2013 worked as Associate Professor of Medicine , working as Professor of Medicine since 2013 and Head of the department since 2019 , Conferred Fellowship of the prestigious Indian College of Physicians in 2016 (FICP)

Professional Information

Academic Excellence
  • MBBS,MD (General Medicine)
Awards and Achievements
  • Good Motivator Award
  • Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
  • Year of the Teacher Award
Research and Publications
  • Hepato-protective effect of folic acid and vitamin B12 in comparison to N-acetylcysteine in experimentally induced acetaminophen toxicity in rats
  • Lipid lowering effect of teneligliptin in comparison to Simvastatin in hyperlipidemic rats
  • A study to evaluate the efficacy of Saroglitazar in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Induced By Fructose Diet Rat Model (ongoing research)
  • A study comparing cognitive function assessment in type-2 diabetes mellitus using Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale and Mini Mental State Examination (Guide for ICMR student research project)
  • ThangaveluSaravanan,PemasariUpaliTelisinghe,VuiHengChong.Oesophageal ulcers
    secondary to doxycycline and herpes simplex infection in an immunocompetent
    patient. Singapore Med J 2012; 53(4): e69–e70
  • Rinuchitra D, JagadeeswaranGovindarajan, SaravananThangavelu, Alamelu
    Jayaraman. Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s disease and scrub typhus: A rare association.Brunei Int
    Med J. 2012;8(5):271-274
  • Dhanya Ramachandran, SaravananThangavelu. Spontaneous haemorrhage- Is imatinibthe cause? Brunei Int Med J. 2013;9(1):63-66
  • ThangaveluSaravanan, Ramachandran Dhanya. Churg-Strauss syndrome in an elderly male-Brunei Int Med J. 2013; 9 (4): 259-262
  • Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome in a middle aged woman Jagadeeswaran G, Vinoth Kumar G, *Saravanan T and ShanmugaPriya S, Indian Journal of Medical Case Reports ISSN: 2319–3832(Online) 2013 Vol.2 (4) October-December, pp.34-37
  • Deterioration of Glycemic Control Induced by Pentoxifylline and Cilostazol in a Diabetic
    Patient with Peripheral Vascular Disease- KanakaDurga V, Britto DL, Shanmugapriya S,
    Saravanan T* Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice Volume-6 Issue-4 Oct-Dec,
    2013 p69-71
  • Zolpidem induced Hyponatremia : A case report ShanmugapriyaS*1, BrittoDL2, Saravanan T3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, PSGIMSR, 2Clinical Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy Practice, PSG College of Pharmacy, 3Professor, Department of Medicine, PSGIMSR.Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2014 Sep, Vol-8(9): HD03-HD04
  • Does diabetes delay the process of wound healing- know how and why? Dr. Neha Sridhar. N 1, Dr. L.BrittoDuraisingh 2, L. Gowtham 2, M. Shakthi 2, Dr. Saravanan. T3 Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 2015 ISSN NO: 2231-6876
  • Shanmugapriya S, Saravanan T, Janani K. Antibiotic sensitivity pattern to urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital in South India. Int J Basic ClinPharmacol 2017; 6(6):1445-50. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20172239
  • Saravanan T, Shanmugapriya S, Sumitra G, Dhayananth RS, Saravanan A, Manicka Vasuki AK. Hepato-protective effect of folic acid and vitamin B12 in comparison to N-acetylcysteine in experimentally induced acetaminophen toxicity in rats.Biomed. &Pharmacol. J. 2017; 10(2): 549-555.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bpj/1140
  • Microfluidic device for novel breast cancer screening by blood
    test using miRNA beacon probe Bindu Salim & M. V. Athira& A. Kandaswamy&MadhulikaVijayakumar& T. Saravanan&ThiagarajanSairam Biomed Microdevices (2017)
  • A comprehensive analysis on uses and side effects of steroids with respect to different routes Krithika.E , Venkatrajan.R , Saravanan.T , BrittoDuraisingh.L* International Journal of Pharma Sciences and Research (IJPSR) ISSN :0975-9492 Vol 8 No 08 Aug 2017
  • Drug prescription pattern of outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Tamil Nadu S. Shanmugapriya, T. Saravanan, S. SaranyaRajee, R. Venkatrajan, Pinky Mariam Thomas Perspectives in Clinical Research – 2017
  • Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome (Dhs): A Nightmare on Adverse Drug Reaction OfDapsone? A Case Report AashiqAhamedShukkoor, SaravananThangavelu,*, Nimmy Elizabeth George and ShanmugaPriyaCurrent Drug Safety, 2018, Vol. 13, No. 0
  • Can serum ferritin levels predict the severity of dengue early?: an observational study
    VelammalPetchiappan, Thaha Mohammed Hussain, SaravananThangaveluInt J Res
    Med Sci. 2019 Mar;7(3):876-88
  • Study on the effectiveness of teaching the principles and methods of clinical audit to medical postgraduates Saravanan T, Shanmugapriya S,* / Current Medicine Research and Practice 8 (2018) 59–63
  • N-acetylcysteine, a boon for yellow phosphorus-induced acute liver failure? A case report. Aashiqahamed shukkoor1, Nimmyelizabeth george1, SaravananThangavelu2*Asian j pharm clin res, vol 12, issue 8, 2019, 1-3
  • Looking Beyond Lupus in LupusBhargavi Kumar, SaravananThangavelu.Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2019 Dec, Vol-13(12): OD01-OD03
  • A study comparing cognitive function assessment in type-2 diabetes mellitus using Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale and Mini Mental State Examination
    S Shanmugapriya, N Dhandapani, T Saravanan.International Journal of Health & Allied Sciences – Volume 7, Issue 3, July‑September 2018 185
  • Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis: another masquerader! Bhargavi Kumar, SaravananThangavelu*, RajgokulPrabhakar International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology | October 2019 | Vol 8 | Issue 10 Page 2338
  • Dengue Fever Complicated By Hemophagocytosis – A Difficult To Manage Case
    SaravananThangavelu*, Clement JenilDhas and Mohammad Zeya Ansari.The Open Hematology Journal, 2019, Volume 7 3
  • Lipid lowering effect of teneligliptin in comparison to Simvastatin in hyperlipidemic rats. Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal. Shanmugapriya S*, Saravanan T, Saravanan A, Yamuna Devi MS and Kishore V. Biomedical and pharmacology journal.March 2020.Vol. 13(1), p. 33-39
  • “Association of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease with Anxiety, Depression and Sleep Disorders” Accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Tenofovir induced delayed nephro-osteo toxicity – a case report. Accepted for publication in “TheJournal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh”
Membership and Certifications
  • Association of Physicians of India (API)- Member id: L-11609
  • Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India(RSSDI) – Member id: L-4356
  • Critical Care Society of India- Member id: 05/T-110

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