Dr Senthil Kirubakaran

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth (2014 - present)
• Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Spire Portsmouth Hospital 

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 Sub-specialties

• Palpitations
• Cardioversion
• Electrocardiogram
• Exercise ECG
• Pacemaker implantation
• Catheter ablation for cardiac arrhythmias
• Atrial Fibrillation ablation
• Ablation for Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Atrial Fibrillation

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 Teaching posts

• Organiser of Arrhythmia / Cardiac Electrophysiology teaching, Wessex region

 Education

• CEPS, International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE), 2013
• MD (Res), University of Manchester (2011)
• ​MB ChB (Hons) Medicine, University of Manchester (1998)
• FRCP, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 2018
• FHRS, Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, 2018

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 Publications and conferences

• 2010 A Arujuna, S Kirubakaran, N Arujuna & C A Rinaldi : Atrial fibrillation – a primary care journey – Clinical Focus Primary Care – for practitioners with a special interest. Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 1 - 44 (2010)
• 2010 Rinaldi CA, Kirubakaran S, Bucknall CA, Bostock J, Gill JS. ‘Biventricular Pacing in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy’ – Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J. 2010;11(1):5-14
• 2010 Hall MS, Kirubakaran S, Chowdhury R, Abidin N, Peters NS, Garratt CJ :Effects of angiotensin receptor blockade on atrial electrical remodeling and the "second factor" in a goat burst-paced model of atrial fibrillation – J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst. 2010 Dec;11(4):222-33.
• 2010 Kirubakaran S, Gill JS, Rinaldi CA: Successful catheter ablation of focal ventricular fibrillation in a patient with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy –Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2010 Apr 8.
• 2011 Duckett SG, Ginks MR, Shetty A, Kirubakaran S, Bostock J, Kaptenakis S, Gill J, Carr- White GS, Razavi R, Rinaldi CA. Adverse response to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy in patients with septal scar on cardiac MRI preventing a septal right ventricular lead position. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2011 Nov 30.
• 2011 Kirubakaran S, Ladwiniec A, Arujuna A, Ginks M,McPhail M, Bostock J,Gerry Carr-White, Rinaldi CA: Male sex, COPD and permanent atrial fibrillation predict a poor clinical response in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy – Int J Clin Pract. 2011 Mar;65(3):281-8.
• 2011 S Kirubakaran MWH Behan AM Mozid T Sabharwal CA Rinaldi Percutaneous balloon venoplasty of pacemaker associated SVC obstruction to facilitate upgrade to a biventricular pacing system – Europace. 2011 Dec;13(12):1798-800. Epub 2011 Aug 15
• 2011 S Kirubakaran, CA RInaldi. Phrenic Nerve stimulation with the Quadripolar left ventricular lead not overcome by ‘electronic repositioning’ – Europace. 2011 Nov 16
• 2011 S Kirubakaran, AK Shetty, CA Rinaldi Inadvertent identification of the left pericardiophrenic vein following laser lead extraction to guide left ventricular lead placement – Europace. 2011 Nov 25
• 2012 Arujuna A, Willimas S, Whittaker J, Shetty A, Roy D; Bostock J, Kirubakaran S, O’Neill M, Gill J, Cooklin Mi, Patel N, Blauth C, Bucknall C, Hamid S, Rinaldi CA. Trends Indications and Outcomes of  Cardiac Implantable Device System Extraction:  A Single UK Centre Experience over the Last Decade. Int J Prac 2011. 2012 Feb; 66(2) 218-25.
• 2012 Haidari G, Gray K, Kirubakaran S "The importance of an ECG: Back to Basics." BMJ Case Rep 2012;vol 2012.
• 2013 Sebag F, Chaachoiu N, Linton N, Amraou S, Harrison J, Williams S, Rinaldi A, Gill J, Cooklin M, Kirubakaran S, O’ Neill M, Wright M, Lellouche N. Persistent AF presenting in sinus rhythm: Pulmonary vein isolation versus pulmonary vein isolation plus electrogram guided ablation – Arch Cardiov Disease 2013, 106(10), 501-10.
• 2013 Zhong Chen, Tushar Kotecha, Siobhan Crichton, Anoop Shetty, Manav Sohal, Aruna Arujuna, Senthil Kirubakaran, Julian Bostock, Michael Cooklin, Mark O’Neill, Matthew Wright, Jas S Gill, C Aldo Rinaldi CA, Lower incidence of inappropriate shock therapy in patients with combined cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT-D) compared with patients with non-CRT defibrillators (ICDs). Int J. Clin Pract,2013;67(8):733-739.
• 2013 Kirubakaran S, O’ Neill. Catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation in a patient with previous repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection – Circ Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 2013;6(4):e54-55.
• 2014 Oloritz T, Silberbauer J, Maccabelli, Mizuno H, Barrato F, Kirubakaran S, Vergara P, Bisgeli C, Baldi G, Della Bella P. Catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy: anteroseptal versus inferolateral scar subtypes. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2014 Jun 7(3):414-23.
• 2015 Kirubakaran S, Chowdhury RA, Hall MC, Patel PM, Garratt CJ, Peters NS. Fractionation of electrograms is caused by colocalized conduction block and connexin disorganization in the absence of fibrosis as AF becomes persistent in the goat model. Heart Rhythm. 2015 Feb;12(2):397-408.
• 2017 Kirubakaran S, Bisceglia C, Silberbauer J, Oloriz T, Santagostino G, Yamase M, Maccabelli G, Trevisi N, Della Bella P. Characterisation of the arrhythmogenic substrate in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy undergoing ventricular tachycardia ablation. Europace, 2017 vol 19(6):1049-1062.
• 2017 Silberbauer J, Gomes J, O’Nunain S, Kirubakaran S, Hildick-Smith D, McCready J. Coronary Vein Exit and Carbon Dioxide Insufflation to Facilitate Subxiphoid Epicardial Access for Ventricular Mapping and Ablation. JACC Clinic Elect, Feb 2017.
• 2021 Juliá J, Bokhari F, Uuetoa H, Derejko P, Traykov VB, Gwizdala A, Sebag FA, Hegbom F, Anfinsen OG, AlQubbany A, Bardyszewski A, Gul EE, Geleva V, Kirubakaran S, Podd S, Babu GG, Balasubramaniam R, Lim PB, Wright M, Veasey R, Mann I, Hildick-Smith D, McCready J, Silberbauer J. A New Era in Epicardial Access for the Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: The Epi-Co 2 Registry. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Jan;7(1):85-96.
• Book Chapter: 2013 Kirubakaran S: ‘Catheter ablation of Atrial fibrillation in heart failure’ – Heart Failure Clinics of North America 2013.
• Book Chapter: 'Exercise Induced Arrhythmias' – Electrophysiological Disorders of the Heart- Editor Camm, Saksena

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 Prizes and awards

• British Heart Foundation Research Grant for Research into Atrial Fibrillation, 2004

 Professional membership

• British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS)
• Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)
• Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

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