Dr Agasthian Thirugnanam

 

Dr Agasthian Thirugnanam is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Hospital.

 

Dr Agasthian received his medical degree (MBBS) and Master's in Surgery (MMed) from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1989 and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1990. He completed General Thoracic Fellowship in Division of General Thoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic and in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation in Cleveland Clinic, United States of America. He performs the full range of thoracic procedures and has extensive experience in lung, pleura, esophageal, chest, airway and foregut surgeries.

 

Specialty Interest(s):

General Thoracic Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Mesothelioma Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Specializes in Diseases and Conditions:

Lung Cancer Benign Lung Diseases and Tumors Pleural Diseases Chest Wall Tumors Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Chest Reconstruction Due To Major Trauma or Surgery Lung Volume Reduction Surgery For Emphysema

Mediastinal Tumors And Diseases Mesothelioma Sympathectomy For Hyperhidrosis Plication For Diaphragm Paralysis Tracheal Resection Or Stent Insertion For Airway Narrowing Lung transplantation for end-stage diseases of the lung

Publications

1. Genomic profiles specific to patient ethnicity in lung adenocarcinoma. Broët, P; Dalmasso, C; Tan, EH; Alifano, M; Zhang, S; Wu, J; Lee, MH; Régnard, JF; Lim, D; Koong, HN; Agasthian, T; Miller, LD; Lim, E; Camilleri-Broët, S; Tan, P. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011;17(11):3542-50.

2. Total tracheal resection for long-segment benign tracheal stenosis. Jia Lin Soon; Thirugnanam Agasthian. The Annals of thoracic surgery 2008; 85(2):654-6.

3.  Peripheral cardiopulmonary bypass-assisted thymoma resection. Soon JL, Poopalalingam R, Lim CH, Koong HN, Agasthian T. . J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2007 Dec; 21(6):867-9. No abstract available.

4. An alternative approach to determining therapeutic choices in advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC): maximizing the diagnostic procedure and the use of low-volume lung biopsies. Lim EH, Zhang SL, Yu K, Nga ME, Ahmed DA, Agasthian T, Wong PS, Chua GC, Wong D, Tan L, Seto KY, Yap WS, Low SP, Khoo KL, Chang A, Ng A, Tan P. J Thorac Oncol. 2007 May; 2(5):387-96.

5. Never-Smokers With Lung Cancer: Epidemiologic Evidence of a Distinct Disease Entity. Chee-Keong Toh, Fei Gao, Wan-Teck Lim, Swan-Swan Leong, Kam-Weng Fong, Swee-Peng Yap, Anne A.L. Hsu, Philip Eng, Heng-Nung Koong, Agasthian Thirugnanam, Eng-Huat Tan. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 15 (May 20), 2006: pp. 2245-2251.

 

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