Dr. Ravikumar K

Dr. Ravikumar Karunakaran serves as HOD and Senior Consultant in the Department of Urology at Aster MIMS Calicut. His areas of interest are Endourology, Uro Oncology, Transplant and Robotic surgery.

Being an eminent urologist and transplant surgeon he has extensive experience in the field and has done over 1000 successful transplants till date.

Experience :

• Has been working in the field of Urology since 30 years.
• Well trained in all common and complex Endo-Urological and Laparoscopic Urological procedures including URS/ RIRS with Laser, PCNL, TURP, TURBT, Laparoscopic Donor / Radical Nephrectomy, Pyeloplasty, Adrenalectomy etc.
• As a consultant urologist and transplant surgeon, performing five transplants a week.
• Over 350 transplants have been done successfully during my tenure so far. 95 % of the donor nephrectomies are done with the laparoscope. Apart from the transplant program, all varieties of general urology work including Uro-oncology, endo-urology, andrology, paediatric urology etc.
• Worked as Lecturer in Surgery At K.M.C. Manipal and Senior Register in Urology at Apollo Hospital Chennai, and Kasturba Medical College Manipal.
• Underwent full time training with fellowship, at Department of Uro-Oncology and Robotic Surgery –AIMS KOCHI dealing with all genito-urinary cancers.
• Active Scientific paper and Video presentations at many National and Regional Conferences and CMEs.
• Three DNB Urology candidates working under me at present. # DIPLOMA IN LAPAROSCOPY Has undergone a basic laparoscopic surgical hands-on training course held at the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery, Research and Training, V.G. Speciality  Hospital, Coimbatore, India.

Published Papers/case reports 

• idiopathic Colo-colic intussusceptions -- Journal of Post Graduate Medicine, Oct 1988. K. Ravikumar, Sanjay Khope et al.
•  Littre's Hernia in an infant - An Operative Surprise-Journal of Post Graduate Medicine, April 1989. K. Ravikumar, Sanjay Khope et al.
• Large Vesical Calculus: An unusual complication of Ectopia Vesicae Repair presented at the Urological Association of Kerala conference, October 1995
• An Unusual Testicular Swelling - presented at the Urological Association of Kerala conference Nov. 1996
• Aphallia - A Rare Anomaly-Poster presentation at USI annual conference Jan 1995
• Pandya M, Karunakaran R, Radhakrishnan S. Management of bleeding from ileal conduit using arterial angioembolization. Indian J Urol. 2021 Oct-Dec;37(4):355-356. doi: 10.4103/iju.iju_180_21. Epub 2021 Oct 1. PMID: 34759529; PMCID: PMC8555565.
• Pandya M, Lal J, Karunakaran R. Transurethral resection of bladder tumor in a case of metastatic carcinoma prostate with penile prosthesis implant. Indian J Urol. 2019 Oct-Dec;35(4):301-302. doi: 10.4103/iju.IJU_144_19. PMID: 31619871; PMCID: PMC6792414.
• Philip A, Anand A, Sahadevan S, Karunakaran R. An interesting case of posttransplant obstructive uropathy managed with a novel surgical approach. Indian J Transplant 2023;17:143‑5