360 degree Microsurgical skills practice: a ‘round-the-clock’ training device.

Authors: Chan WY, Mishra A, Srinivasan JR, Ramakrishnan VV-accepted by JPRAS
Source: JPlasticReconstructive Aesthetic Surgery Sept 2008; 61(9):1110-1. Epub May 2008

A novel splinting technique to protect free flaps around major joints

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Ramakrishnan V, Birch J
J Trauma. 2008 Mar;64(3):E44-6.

A simple innovation to improve recipient vessel exposure in the axilla during microvascular breast reconstruction with DIEAP flap

Authors: A Gravvanis, R Caulfield, V Ramakrishnan, N Niranjan
Source:Microsurgery. 2008;28(4):301-2.

A theoretical model describing arterial flow in the DIEP flap related to number and size of perforator vessels

Authors: A Figus, V Ramakrishnan, C Rubino
Source: Source: JPRAS, 2008 Jan 31 [Epub ahead of print]. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008 Aug 28.

An unusual case of fibromatosis of the axilla.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Birch J, Davies J, Sauven P, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Breast J. 2008 Jan-Feb;14(1):110-2.

DIEP flap implant: a further option in optimizing breast reconstruction

Authors: A Figus, V Canu, Fortune C Iwuagwa, V Ramakrishnan
Source: JPRAS 2008 July

Fat transfer using an epidural needle.

Authors: Wong CJ, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008 Aug;61(8):905. Epub 2008 Jun 16.

Large dorsal intercostal perforator flap in extensive neurofibromatosis.

Authors: Bramhall RJ, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Jun;121(6):2178-9; author reply 2179-80.

Hemodynamic Changes in the Microcirculation of DIEP Flaps.

Authors: Figus,Andrea MD, Ramakrishnan, Venkat MS, FRCS, FRACS, Rubino Corrado MD
Source:Annals of Plastic Surgery. 60(6):644-648, June 2008

Salvage of finger length in septicaemia necrosis using three free flaps from a single ALT donor site.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Birch J, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Accepted for publication in Annals of Plastic Surgery (APS) June 2008

Stacked free hemi-DIEP flaps: a method of autologous breast reconstruction in a patient with midline abdominal scarring

Authors: R S Ali, A Garrido, V Ramakrishnan
Source: J Reconstr Microsurg. 2008 Jan 11; [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 18189212 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher

The use of subcutaneous fat to facilitate drainage during wound closure.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008 Jan 31; [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 18243081 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

Recipient Vessel Exposure in the Axilla during Microvascular Breast Reconstruction 

Authors: Andreas Gravvanis, Robert H Caulfield Venkat Ramakrishnan and Niri Niranjan
Source: Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery/Volume24, Number 8 2008

Breast Reconstruction-State of Art

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery

A large encapsulated seroma presenting as a mass 5 years post paraumbilical hernia repair.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Khan F, Ramakrishnan V.
Source:J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2007 Oct 12; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17933597 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

Aesthetic outcome of different techniques of reconstruction following nipple-areola-preserving envelope mastectomy with immediate reconstruction.

Authors: Mosahebi A, Ramakrishnan V, Gittos M, Collier J.
Source:Plast Reconstr Surg. 2007 Mar;119(3):796-803.
PMID: 17312480 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Assistant free drainage of microanastamoses during free flap surgery

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Birch J, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2007;60(6):691-2. Epub 2007 Jan 31. No abstract available. PMID: 17485064 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE

Breast reduction surgery after coronary artery bypass grafting

Authors: Ismail, Amir1; Mosahebi, Afshin; Ramakrishnan, Venkat
Source:European Journal of Plastic Surgery, Volume 29, Number 5, July 2007, pp. 243-244(2)

DIEP flap with implant: a further option in optimizing breast reconstruction

Authors: Andrea Figus, Vanessa Canu, Fortune C. Iwuagwu and V Ramakrishnan
Source: doi:10.1016/j. bjps 2007 12.089 and J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008 Jul 8. [Epub ahead of print]

Nipple Reconstruction Using the Free Transfer of a Previously Reconstructed Nipple.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Ramakrishnan V.Source: Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2008 Jan;32(1):175-176. Epub 2007 Aug 31. No abstract available. PMID: 17763896 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

Point of technique: an alternative to the bolus tie-over dressing for full-thickness skin grafts.

Authors: Yoong P, Caulfield R, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Ann Plast Surg. 2007 Apr;58(4):466-7. No abstract available.

Salvage of a DIEP flap using a retrograde flow anastomosis

Authors: Caulfield RH, Maleki-Tabrizi A, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008;61(3):346-7. Epub 2007 Dec 21. No abstract available. PMID: 18155654 [PubMed – in process]

Stacked free SIEA/DIEP flap for unilateral breast reconstruction in thin patient with abdominal vertical midline scar’ a case report

Authors: A Figus, P Fioramonti, V Ramakrishnan
Source: Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery JRM-07-05-0072, 1-13 (2007)

The complications of ‘cosmetic tourism’ – an avoidable burden on the NHS.

Authors: Birch J, Caulfield R, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2007;60(9):1075-7. Epub 2007 May 7. No abstract available. PMID: 17482899 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

The “onion skinning” technique for infection control.

Authors: Caulfield RH, Tabrizi AM, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Ann Plast Surg. 2007 Feb;58(2):230. No abstract available.
PMID: 17245162 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Envelope mastectomy and immediate reconstruction (EMIR), improving outcome without oncological compromise.

Authors: Mosahebi A, Ramakrishnan V, Gittos M, Collier DS.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2006;59(10):1025-30. Epub 2006 Mar 24.

 Large fasciocutaneous perforator based V-Y advancement flap for large post-mastectomy wound reconstruction–our experience with three cases.

Authors: Lim EH, Mathur B, Niranjan NS, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2006;59(10):1073-5. Epub 2006 May 11.

Microcirculation in DIEP flaps: a study of the haemodynamics using laser Doppler flowmetry and lightguide reflectance spectrophotometry. 

Authors: Figus A, Mosahebi A, Ramakrishnan V.
Source J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2006;59(6):604-12; discussion 613. Epub 2006 Mar 3. PMID: 16716953 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Perforator flaps-Editorial.

Author: Ramakrishnan VV.
Source: J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2006;59(6):569-70. Epub 2006 Mar 13. No abstract available.
PMID: 16716949 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Early free tissue transfer following gangrene of the feet.

Authors: Raveendran SS, Mosahebi A, Ramakrishnan VV.
Source: Br J Plast Surg. 2005 Jul;58(5):692-4.
PMID: 15925332 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE

Immediate bilateral autologous breast reconstruction for silicone intolerance.

Authors: Mosahebi A, Atherton D, Ramakrishnan V.
Source: Br J Plast Surg. 2005 Jul;58(5):714-6.
PMID: 15925337 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Lidocaine facilitates safe and simple intramuscular dissection.

Authors: Haeney JA, Stanley PR, Ramakrishnan VV.
Source: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2005 Sep 15;116(4):1183-4.

Microsurgical reconstruction of the breast: ‘The versatile lower abdomen

Author: Ramakrishnan VV.
Source: Indian J Plast Surg 2004;37:18-22