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Dr. Jayanty Pavithran

Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Kochi

Qualification: MBBS, MS
jayanthyp@aims.amrita.edu

Bio Publications Qualifications Areas of expertise Experience Awards and recognitions
Bio

Dr. Jayanty Pavithran currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Kochi

Dr Jayanthy has two decades of experience in ENT with a special interest and expertise in Pediatric Laryngology [airway and swallowing disorders in children].Before her stint in Amrita, she has practiced in prominent hospitals viz. Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, KIMS, Trivandrum and Lisie Hospital, Kochi. She joined AIMS, Kochi in 2013 after extensive training in Laryngology under Dr Jayakumar Menon, a pioneer in the field, in the country. She got trained in Pediatric Laser in Airway from Lausanne, Switzerland, among the most renowned centres in the field. To hone her skills, she has done observerships / training in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London [Pediatric Laryngology], Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic [Endoscopic Ear Surgery] ,Dell Children’s medical Center ,Central Texas ,USA [pediatric dysphagia] and Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital,Singapore for [Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for dysphagia certification].She was an integral part of the first dedicated dysphagia [swallowing disorder] clinic in the country and started division of pediatric dysphagia clinic [ swallowing disorders in kids] in AIMS, Kochi, again first in the country.

 

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2024

Serum Galactomannan as a Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Tool for Fungal Skull Base Osteomyelitis

Cite this Research Publication : Bini Faizal, Remita Mary Abraham, Merlin Blessan, Anjali S. Nair, Unnikrishnan Menon & Jayanty Pavithran, Serum Galactomannan as a Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Tool for Fungal Skull Base Osteomyelitis, Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery,2024.

Year : 2024

Role of surgery along with antimicrobials in refractory skull base osteomyelitis—A prospective observational study

Cite this Research Publication : Bini Faizal, Lakshmi Nair, Jayanthy Pavithran, Merlin Moni, V. S. Sheejamol, Role of surgery along with antimicrobials in refractory skull base osteomyelitis—A prospective observational study, Clinical Otolaryngology,2024.

Year : 2022

Congenital Cricopharyngeal Achalasia in an Infant Treated by External Cricopharyngeal Myotomy: A Case Report

Cite this Research Publication : S Vivek, Jayakumar R Menon, Manju E Issac, Jayanthy Pavithran, Congenital Cricopharyngeal Achalasia in an Infant Treated by External Cricopharyngeal Myotomy: A Case Report. Int J Phonosurg Laryngol 2022.

Year : 2020

Exploring the utility of fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in young children- A comparison with videofluoroscopy

Cite this Research Publication : Pavithran Jayanthy ,Puthiyottil Indu, Kumar Madhumita , Nikitha Anju, Vidhyadharan Sivakumar,Bhaskaran Renjitha ,C J Arya ,Thankappan Krishnakumar , Subramania Iyer, Karimassery Sundaram,Exploring the utility of fibre optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in young children- A comparison with videofluoroscopy. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2020.

Publisher : Elsevier

Year : 2019

An update on the etiology of acquired vocal cord palsy- A single institutional study from south India

Cite this Research Publication : Pavithran, Jayanthy & A, Pradeep, An update on the etiology of acquired vocal cord palsy- A single institutional study from south India, MedPulse International Journal of ENT,2019.

Year : 2018

Tube Feeding: Dysphagia Management in Head and Neck Cancers-A Manual and Atlas

Cite this Research Publication : Pavithran, Jayanthy, Tube Feeding: Dysphagia Management in Head and Neck Cancers-A Manual and Atlas,2018.

Year : 2018

Observations from a pediatric dysphagia clinic: Characteristics of children at risk of aspiration pneumonia.

Cite this Research Publication : Jayanthy Pavithran, Indu Vadakke Puthiyottil , Mythili Narayan, Sivakumar Vidhyadharan, Jayakumar R. Menon, Subramania Iyer, Observations from a pediatric dysphagia clinic: Characteristics of children at risk of aspiration pneumonia: Observations From a Pediatric Dysphagia Clinic. The Laryngoscope,2018.

Publisher : Laryngoscope

Year : 2011

Unilateral Vocal Cord Palsy: An Etiopathological Study

Cite this Research Publication : Pavithran Jayanthy & Menon, Jayakumar, Unilateral Vocal Cord Palsy: An Etiopathological Study, International Journal of Phonosurgery & Laryngology,2011.

Qualifications
  • MBBS (Govt.Medical college ,Kozhikode 1999)
  • MS ENT(Govt.Medical College,Bangalore 2003)
Areas of expertise
  1. All general ENT surgeries for nasal block,chronic sinusitis,bleeding from nose ,ear perforation,ear discharge, adenotonsillectomy,open neck surgeries for thyroid and parotid tumors
  2. Pediatric Airway-Surgery for congenital airway anomalies in infants and children-  (endoscopic and open).
  3. Pediatric Laser in Airway
  4. Septorhinoplasty
  5. Endoscopic and fluroscopic evaluation of pediatric swallowing disorders.
  6. Open and endoscopic surgery (cricopharyngeal myotomy) for specific swallowing disorder in infants.
  7. Microlaryngeal surgery,Nonselective Laryngeal Reinnervation and Thyroplasty for Vocal cord palsy
  8. Kashima operation and endoscopic arytenoidectomy for stridor in adults and children
  9. Surgery for drooling in neurologically impaired children.
Experience

  • 2003

    Apollo Hospital Hyderabad

  • 2004-2011

    KIMS,Trivandrum

  • 2012-2013

    Lisie Hospital Kochi.

Awards and recognitions

Dr Jayanthy has publications in highly ranked international journals in Pediatric Otolaryngology and ENT. Her papers have won gold medals in postgraduate paper presentations in Kerala State ENT conference 2018 and 2022, Larynx 2022  Kochi, third prize in International Dysphagia Conclave, Pune 2023, International Symposium on Audiological Medicine 2024, and accepted for presentation in QUAD conference 2022, Cincinnati, USA.

She has been an invited faculty for PHONOCON, Annual Conference of Phonosurgeons of India from 2018 to 2024.

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