Shanthi Sivanandam, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Mayo Mail Code 94
420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 626-2782
Fax: (612) 626-2467
silv0099@umn.edu

Dr. Sivanandam is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology.  She received her M.B.B.S. from the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Medical School in India. Dr. Sivanandam completed her internship at Christian Medical College and Hospital in India, a cardiothoracic surgery residency at GKNM Hospital in India and was in general practice in India at CSASS Medical Centre. Dr. Sivanandam completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She completed the first two years of her pediatric cardiology fellowship at College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York and returned to the University of Minnesota for the third year of her pediatric cardiology fellowship. Dr. Sivanandam joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 2004. 

Dr. Sivanandam’s clinical interest is imaging which includes transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography with emphasis on fetal echocardiography and cardiac MRI. Her research interest is designing a prospective study for fetal intervention such as valvar pulmonary stenosis, valvar aortic stenosis and also to study the evolution of  heart disease in utero during  2nd and 3rd trimester. She is working on analyzing the impact of early fetal diagnosis of congenital heart defect and post natal outcomes.

Selected Recent Publications

Shanthi Sivanandam, MD and James H. Moller, MD. Non-Surgical Septal Reduction Procedure in Down's Syndrome with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy-A Case Report. Congenital Cardiology Today.Volume 7/Issue 7 July 2009.

Sivanandam S, MD; Berry J, RDMS; Steinberger J, MD; Bass J, MD; Pyles L, MD; Martin C, MD; Moller J, MD. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Selection for initial palliation by fetal and transthoracic echocardiography. Sixth annual symposium on Advances in Perinatal Cardiology. Oral and Poster presentation. St.Petersburg, Florida, Oct 2008.

S Sivanandam, AR Sinaiko, DR Jacobs, L Steffen, A Moran, J Steinberger. Relationship of Increase in Adiposity to Increase in Left Ventricular Mass from Childhood to Young Adulthood. August 2006,411-415, American Journal of Cardiology.

S Sivanandam, JS Glickstein, BF Printz, LD Allan, K Altmann, DE Solowiejczyk, L Simpson, A Perez-Delboy,  CS Kleinman. Prenatal Diagnosis of Conotruncal Malformations: Diagnostic accuracy, outcome, chromosomal abnormalities and extra cardiac anomalies. ISSN:0735-1631,May 2006,volume 23,No:4 American Journal of Perinatology.

S Sivanandam, AR Sinaiko, DR Jacobs, A Moran, J Steinberger. Increase in adiposity predicts increase in left ventricular mass from childhood to young adulthood. L.J. Filer  Symposium on Overweight  and its Consequences Beginning in Youth. San Francisco, CA, 3/2004 (poster presentation).

Book Chapters Jamie L. Lohr, Shanthi Sivanandam, MD. Introduction to Echocardiography in Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology and Devices: a Handbook for the Biomedical Engineer, The Human Press, Inc., Totowa, New Jersey 2008.