Dr. Sakthi Selvakumar

Dr. S. Sakthi Selvakumar is a Consultant Interventional Nephrologist and Renal Transplant Physician at Kauvery Hospital, Trichy – Cantonment and Tennur.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN), a Fellow of GlomCon, and a Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS).

With over five years of dedicated transplant practice, Dr. Selvakumar has been involved in more than 260 renal transplants spanning live-donor, deceased-donor, ABO-incompatible, HLA-incompatible (desensitisation), high-PRA, paired-exchange (swap), dual-kidney, and high-risk recipient pathways. His work includes the first HIV-positive renal transplant in Delta Tamil Nadu, HCV NAT-positive donor transplantation under the HOPE protocol, HBsAg-positive to HBsAg-negative transplants, and paediatric transplantation.

His interventional and dialysis practice covers AVF creation, ultrasound vessel mapping and Doppler access surveillance, tunneled haemodialysis catheter insertion, native and allograft kidney biopsy, CAPD catheter insertion (mini-laparotomy technique), and CRRT program operations.

He developed the ISOT SWAP software, a web-based paired-exchange matching platform for kidney and liver swap transplantation, and received the TANKER Young Investigator Award at ISOT 2024 for his work on swap transplantation algorithms. He has been appointed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, as a member of the National SWAP Transplantation Expert Committee — constituted under NOTTO to draft the National SWAP Transplantation Guidelines — being one of only five private-sector experts selected nationally for the committee.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Veerappan I, Sethu Raman R, Chakravarthy T, Siddharth VA. Penile calciphylaxis – a rare, yet medically treatable disease. Indian J Nephrol. 2023;33(4):305-7. PMID: 37781550.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Veerappan I, Sethu Raman R, Chakravarthy T, Siddharth VA. Comparison of efficacy and safety between rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin and anti-T lymphocyte globulin in kidney only transplantation: a retrospective observational study. Indian J Transplant. 2022;16(3):303-8. DOI: 10.4103/ijot.ijot_76_21.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Sandhya, Palaniandavan S. Association between prolonged QTc interval and microalbuminuria in patients of type II diabetes mellitus. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2017;8(2):B355-62. DOI: 10.22376/ijpbs.2017.8.2.b355-362.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Rajasigamani A, Socrates. Prevalence of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy in patients with cirrhosis of liver: a tertiary hospital experience. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2017;8(1):B298-303. DOI: 10.22376/ijpbs.2017.8.1.b298-B303.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Suresh Kanna, Palaniandavan S. Assessment of proteinuria for early diagnosis and risk prediction of dengue haemorrhagic fever / dengue shock syndrome in dengue infections. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2017;8(1):B440-3. DOI: 10.22376/ijpbs.2017.8.1.b440-443.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Sivakumar. Prevalence of cardiorenal syndrome in patients admitted to a tertiary hospital. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2016;7(4):B517-21. DOI: 10.22376/ijpbs.2016.7.4.b517-521.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Socrates. A case of reversible stress cardiomyopathy. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2016;7(4):B272-7. DOI: 10.22376/ijpbs.2016.7.4.b272-277.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Bhargavi MV, Palaniandavan S. Significance of haematological parameters as a diagnostic test for malaria in patients with acute febrile illness. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2015;6(4):B868-74.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Bhargavi MV, Palaniandavan S. Congenital lobar emphysema in an adult with VSD. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2015;6(4):B830-5.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Vinoth Kumar, Balakrishnan, Anand NN. An interesting case of subacute Budd-Chiari syndrome. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2015;6(4):B419-25.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Vinoth Kumar, Balakrishnan, Anand NN. A rare case of autoimmune cholangitis. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2015;6(4):B360-5.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Bhargavi MV, Palaniandavan S. Crossed renal ectopia with chronic kidney disease. Int J Pharm Bio Sci. 2015;6(4):335-9.

Indexed Conference Abstracts

• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Veerappan I, Sethu Raman R, Chakravarthy T, Siddharth VA. Comparison of anti-human T-lymphocyte immunoglobulin (r-ATLG) versus anti-thymocyte globulin (r-ATG) as an induction agent in kidney transplantation: a 5-year retrospective single-centre observational study. Kidney Int Rep. 2025;10(2 Suppl):S[pages]. Abstract WCN25-2364. Presented at World Congress of Nephrology 2025.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S, Veerappan I, Sethu Raman R, Chakravarthy T, Siddharth VA. Comparison of anti-human T-lymphocyte immunoglobulin (r-ATLG – Grafalon) versus anti-thymocyte globulin (r-ATG – Thymoglobulin) in kidney transplant: a 5-year follow-up study. Transplantation. 2024;108(9S Suppl):S[pages]. Abstract P.534. Presented at The Transplantation Society Congress 2024.

National Conference Presentations

• Sakthi Selva Kumar S. Swap transplant in the Indian context. Oral presentation. Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT); 2025.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S. ISOT SWAP – paired exchange algorithm. Oral presentation. Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT); 2024. [Awarded: TANKER Young Investigator Award, ISOT 2024.]
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S. Individualised cool haemodialysis and cerebral blood flow. Oral presentation. Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Nephrology (ISNCON); 2023.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S. Pre-curved tunneled haemodialysis catheters – a retrospective cohort. Oral presentation. Western India Nephrology Conference (WINICON); 2023.
• Sakthi Selva Kumar S. Graft arterial Doppler for tacrolimus toxicity screening. Oral presentation. Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Nephrology (ISNCON); 2021.

Software & Innovation

• ISOT SWAP Software (2024). Web-based paired kidney exchange matching platform for kidney and liver swap transplantation; compatibility logic and workflow reporting. Developer: Sakthi Selva Kumar S. Awarded TANKER Young Investigator Award, ISOT 2024.