Dr Lakshmi Ratnam

Clinical interests

Dr Ratnam has been a Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist at St George's Hospital since 2009. Dr Ratnam's particular areas of interest include the management of lymphovascular malformations with percutaneous sclerotherapy, uterine artery embolisation, pelvic congestion syndrome, salivary gland interventions, and paediatric interventional radiology. She has extensive experience in the treatment of low flow vascular malformations and is one of the pioneers in the treatment of Bleomycin Electrosclerotherapy (BEST) in the country.

Professional profile

Dr Ratnam is part of a team of Interventional Radiologists at the hospital and performs a wide range of vascular and non-vascular interventions, such as biopsy and drainage, insertion of lines, portacaths, peripheral arterial angiography and angioplasty, venography, venoplasty, fistuloplasty, nephrostomy and ureteric stenting, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram and biliary stenting, transjugular liver biopsy, and insertion of feeding tubes (gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy, nasogastric and nasojejunal tubes).

Dr Ratnam is an Honorary Reader in Interventional Radiology and part of the Lymphatic Research Group at City St George’s University of London and a core member of the St George’s Lymphatic and Arteriovenous Anomalies (LAVA) multidisciplinary team.

She is on the Editorial Board for CVIRendovascular and the Vascular and Endovascular review journals as well as a reviewer for CVIR, BMJ, JVIR, European Radiology and Clinical Radiology journals. She regularly lectures at local, national, and international IR meetings. She is also an educational supervisor and is very involved in training and education.