Saketh Saravu
MD, MRCPCH
Investigator, Pediatric Cardiologist, and lnterventional Electrophysiologist, BC Children's Hospital
CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
Wisam Abozaid and Samantha Wong and Marc W. Deyell and Shubhayan Sanatani and Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2024.10.00712 / 2024
Journal of Neonatology
Roychaudhuri, S. and Abdallateef, N. and Vijayashankar, S.S. and Tan, J. and Metzger, D. and Kieran, E.
DOI: 10.1177/09732179231172280Canadian Family Physician
Abbasi, E. and Vijayashankar, S.S. and Goldman, R.D.
DOI: 10.46747/cfp.6912839Heart Rhythm
Khan, H.R. and Moustafa, A.T. and Triemstra, S. and Mokhtar, A.T. and Saravu, S. and Mtwesi, V. and Gula, L.J. and Leong-Sit, P. and Manlucu, J. and Skanes, A.C. and Yee, R. and Tang, A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.05.032Translational Pediatrics
Vijayashankar, S.S. and Sanatani, G. and Franciosi, S. and Moodley, S. and Ting, J.Y.
DOI: 10.21037/tp-22-301Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Przybylski, R. and Saravu Vijayashankar, S. and O{'}Leary, E.T. and Hylind, R.J. and Noon, J. and Dionne, A. and Dewitt, E.S. and Bezzerides, V.J. and Abrams, D.J.
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.123.012191Pediatric Emergency Care
Shortland, J. and Saravu Vijayashankar, S. and Sanatani, S.
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002701Cardiology in the Young
Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar and J. A. Gordon Culham and Shreya Moodley
DOI: 10.1017/S104795112000264411 / 2020
Cjc Open
Vijayashankar, S.S. and Barker, C. and Sanatani, S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2020.04.013Our research aims to expand our understanding of inherited arrhythmia conditions that cause sudden death in the young such as Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT). Jn collaboration with other clinicians and basic scientists around the world, our work focuses on uncovering the genetic and physiological foundations of inherited arrhythmias that contribute to sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy children. Through patient registries and longitudinal data collection, we aim to uncover genotype-phenotype correlations, risk stratification, and prognostic modeling. Ultimately, this work aims to enable earlier diagnosis, improved risk prediction, and more effective, personalized therapeutic interventions for pediatric patients at risk of sudden cardiac death.
Supraventricular tachycardia {SVT}, a common arrhythmia in children, can impact a child's quality of life. We aim to advance our understanding of the SVT subtypes and evaluating the most effective treatment strategies. These includes novel management strategies such as drug treatments as well as catheter-based procedures.
Our research aims to unravel the role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in arrhythmia conditions and sudden death in the young. In particular, we aim to understand how autonomic imbalance contributes to both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, and how targeted neuromodulation might serve as a therapeutic strategy.
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