Prof. Dr. G Vijayaraghavan

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

• Antiphospholipid Syndrome

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Spondyloarthropathy

• Psoriatic Arthritis

• Systemic Sclerosis

• Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis

• Vasculitis

• APLA

Research Work

• Golden Heart  Fellow: American Heart Association.

• Fellow: Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, U K.

• Fellow: American College of Cardiology from 1976.

• Fellow: Royal college of Physicians, London, U.K.

• Life Member: American Society of Echocardiography.

• International Society for Cardiac research.

• Cardiological Society of India.

• Association of Physicians of India.

• Indian Medical Association.

• Indian Society of Medical Ultrasound.

• Indian Academy of Echocardiography.

• Awarded the distinguished Professor of Cardiology by the National Board of Examinations, Government of India.

• Post-graduate Medical Examiner at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and in the University of Kerala, University of Madras, and Manipal University.

• Examiner for National Board of Examinations. Dip NB.

• PhD Guide to Kerala University, Peoples Friendship University of Russia, and Irkutzk State Medical University, Siberia, Russia.

• President – Society for Continuing Medical Education and Research.

• Trained famous cardiologists like Dr M. Durairaj, Dr KA Abraham, Prof. Chandrasekhar Rao, Prof. Bahuleyan, Dr Tiny Nair, Prof. George Koshy etc.

• A post-graduate medical teacher since 1969. 

• Published the first His Bundle Electrogram based paper from India – IHJ 1975 and 1976.

• Secretary Cardiological Society of India, Kerala Chapter, 1976 to 1980.

• Established the first 2-D Echo laboratory in India 1979 May.

• Secretary Cardiological Society of India, Kerala Chapter, 1976 to 1980.

• Chairman Council for research on heart muscle disease, Cardiological Society of India, 1980 to 1985.

• Published the first book on Doppler Echocardiography from the USA – Doppler Echocardiography: A practical Manuel by Shah PM, Vijayaraghavan G, Singham KT. – John Wiley. 1985.

• President Cardiological Society of India, Kerala Chapter, 1990 to 1991.

• Vice President Indian Academy of Echocardiography 1995 to 1997.

• President Indian Academy of Echocardiography 1997 to 1999.

• Awarded Padmasri by the president of India in 2009.

• Scroll of honour 2011 awarded to the best postgraduate medical teacher by the National Board of Examinations. 




• At the Medical College and Hospital, Trivandrum, India.

  • Late potentials in Endomyocardial Fibrosis.

  • Prognostic factors in Cerbera Odollum poisoning.

  • Comparative study of Cerbera Odollum and Thevetia Nerifolia poisoning.

  • Morphometric study of normal coronary arteries in Indians.

• At the Faculty of Medicine, and Chest Hospital, Kuwait.

  • Regional localization of calcium in the mitral apparatus. Study using 2-Dimensional echocardiography and examination of the excised valve.

  • Interatrial flow dynamics in atrial septal defect; study using Doppler blood flow imaging.

  • Spatial geometry of rheumatic mitral regurgitation jet in colour Doppler blood flow imaging.

  • Right ventricular ejection characteristics in isolated pulmonary valvar stenosis; A Doppler echocardiographic study.

  • Morphometric studies in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.

  • Pulmonary venous flow pattern in rheumatic mitral stenosis; A trans oesophagal Echo study. (Papers presented at the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology, Feb 1987 at Vienna, Austria; at the Asian Pacific Conference on Doppler and Echocardiography Nov 1987 at San Diego, U.S.A, World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology, Nov 1989, at Bangkok, Thailand and World Congress of Cardiology, Feb 1990, at Manila, Philippines).

• At the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

  • Multiple apical cross-sectional echocardiography in the: – (i) Study of mitral valve apparatus in ischaemic mitral valve prolapse. (ii) Study of left ventricular asynergy in patients with chronic stable angina. (Paper presented at the American Heart Association Annual Meeting, 1983 at Anaheim, California, U.S.A)

  • Role of continuous-wave Doppler in Cardiology. (Paper published in American Heart Journal 1983; 107: 1275-1276, American Journal of cardiology, 1985; 56: 465-469 and in “Doppler Echocardiography; A Practical Manual” published by John Wiley and Sons, New York, U.S.A. 1985).

• At the Medical College and Hospital, Trivandrum, India.

  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic features of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis with special reference to regional echo intensity. (Papers presented at the American Heart Association annual meeting at Dallas, Texas, U.S.A Nov 1982, at the World Congress of Tropical Cardiology at Bombay, India 1982, at the Asian Pacific Congress of Cardiology at Bangkok, Thailand, 1984, at the First Asian Pacific Conference on Doppler and Echocardiography at Tokyo, Japan, 1985 and at the Second Asian Pacific Conference on Doppler and Echocardiography at San Diego, U.S.A. Nov 1987. Papers published in British Heart Journal 1983; 50:450-459, Postgraduate Medical Journal 1982; 59: 179-183).

• At the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India.

  • Effect of beta-adrenergic blocking agents in the haemodynamics of: –

    • Tetralogy of Fallot.

    • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    • (Published in Indian Heart Journal 1976; 28: 165-169, & Journal of Association of Physician’s of India, 1976; 24:631-636).

  • Haemodynamics of Endomyocardial fibrosis. (Published in British Heart Journal 1977; 39:563-568, and American Heart Journal, 1983; 105: 659-666)

  • Cardiovascular effects of intravenous Verapamil in normal subjects. (Published in Indian Heart Journal 1978; 30: 159-162)

• As a part of Doctor of Medicine (Cardiology ) programme at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India. “Cardiovascular effects of Cerebrin”. (Published in Indian Heart Journal, 1974; 26: 79-83 and in the Indian Journal of Pharmacology, 1973; 5: 249)

• As a part of Doctor of Medicine (Internal Medicine) programme at the Medical College, Trivandrum, India.Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in the normal relatives of diabetic subjects”. A thesis submitted to the University of Kerala, India, 1969 (Paper presented at the First National Conference on Diabetes Mellitus, Madras, India, January 1969.) PUBLICATIONS.