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About Dr Kadukkavil Padmakumar
Personal Profile
Dr Kadukkavil Padmakumar is a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Beaumont Hospital in Bolton.
Dr Padmakumar is experienced in all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic gastroenterology and endoscopy, having received post-graduate training in 'General Medicine and Gastroenterology' from the Newcastle and Mersey regions,
He has been working as a 'Consultant Gastroenterologist' since 1997. He deals with patients suffering from a wide range of disorders like:
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Peptic ulcers
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Coeliac disease
- Hepatobiliary-pancreatic diseases.
He has a particular interest in NASH (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis), which is a more advanced form of non-alcoholic liver disease. Along with this, one of his interests lies in viral hepatitis.
Dr Padmakumar is an expert 'colonoscopist' and is nationally-accreditated to undertake colonoscopy for those who are referred though the 'national bowel cancer screening programme'. He also undertakes highly-specialised therapeutic procedures like EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection). This is a minimally invasive procedure which can remove early stage cancers, flat polyps or abnormal tissue lesions from the digestive tract lining. Additionally, he undertakes 'dilatation of strictures and banding'.
His caecal intubation rate (% of colonoscopies where the doctor successfully guides the scope all the way to the start of the large intestine) has always been over 95%.
Symptoms for which patients are commonly referred to Dr Padmakumar are:
- Indigestion
- Abdominal pain
- Diarrhoea
- Rectal bleeding
- Anaemia (low levels of red blood cells)
- Abnormal liver function test
- Jaundice (a build up of a waste product called 'bilirubin' which turns the skin and whites of the eye yellow)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
Clinical Interests:
- Liver disease, including alcohol-related
- Fatty liver
- Liver cancer
- Liver failure
- Diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy
- ERCP ('Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography') - used to treat and diagnose bile and pancreatic duct problems
- Portal hypertension (high blood pressure in the vein carrying blood to the liver from the digestive organs)
- Pancreatic cancer
- Gallstone disease
- Newer modalities of treatment for anaemia and irritable bowel syndrome
- Bowel cancer
- Colonoscopy
- Capsule endoscopy (a procedure that uses a tiny camera to take photos of the digestive tract in order to find bleeding or inflammation in the small intestine)
