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Dr Lakshmi Ratnam

MBChB
Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist

Hospital Services Institute

Sees patients at Cleveland Clinic London Hospital , Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre

Speaks English

Clinical Interests

  • Biliary Disease
  • Fibroids
  • Salivary Gland Disease
  • Vascular Lesions

Specialties

  • Angiogram
  • Angioplasty
  • Embolisation Procedures
  • Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Nephrostomy
  • Peripheral Angioplasty
  • Port-a-Cath Placement
  • Ultrasound
  • Ureteric Stent Placement
  • Uterine Artery Embolisation
  • Vascular Access Procedures
  • Venography

Accepted Insurances

This doctor works with the following private medical insurance providers.

  • Aviva Health UK Limited
  • AXA PPP Healthcare Limited
  • Bupa Insurance Services Limited
  • Vitality Corporate Services Limited

Biography & Education

About Dr Lakshmi Ratnam

Dr Lakshmi Ratnam trained at the University of Sheffield and at St George's Hospital, and has been a Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist (IR) at St George's Hospital since 2009. She completed a full year of additional specialist IR fellowship at the Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth, Australia.

Dr Ratnam's particular areas of interest are the management of lymphovascular malformations with percutaneous sclerotherapy, uterine artery embolisation, pelvic congestion syndrome, salivary gland interventions and paediatric IR.

She also performs a wide range of vascular and non-vascular interventions including biopsy and drainage, insertion of lines, portacaths, peripheral arterial angiography and angioplasty, venography, venoplasty, fistuloplasty, nephrostomy and ureteric stenting, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram and biliary stenting, transjugular liver biopsy and insertion of feeding tubes (gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy, nasogastric and nasojejunal tubes).

Dr Ratnam has served as the Head of Department for the Department of Radiology at St George's Hospital, deputy head of department and clinical governance lead; and co - chair of the Hospital Thrombosis Group. She was also previously the Regional Educational Adviser for South Thames for the RCR and a member of the London IR Faculty Group. Within the Interventional Radiology community, she has served as a member of the IR Subcommittee for the ECR, a chair of the Scientific Programme committee for the BSIR, and is a member of the Editorial Board for CVIRendovascular journal. She regularly lectures at local, national and international IR meetings. In her free time, she enjoys reading, travelling, sailing and spending time with her young family.

Research & Publications

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Professional Memberships

Royal College of Radiologists, British Society of Interventional Radiology, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe, European Congress of Radiology.

GMC Number

4514110

NHS Base

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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