Dr. K Kartik Revanappa

Dr. K Kartik Revanappa is a celebrated Neurosurgeon in India with over 22+ years of experience.

He completed MBBS from Dr. V. M. Government Medical College in 1990, MS – Orthopedics from in 2003 from the same university, and M.Ch – Neuro Surgery from CMC Vellore in 2011.

He has vast experience in this field and has performed more than 1000 neurosurgical procedures including operations on brain tumors, spinal cord tumors, spinal stabilization, stereotactic procedures, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury.

Dr. Revanappa is an esteemed member of the Apex body of world Neurosurgery – CNS (Congress of Neurological Surgeons) and also an active member of NASS (North American Spine Society) and NSI (Neurological Society of India).

His research work has been published in reputed medical journals both nationally and internationally.

• MBBS, 1990, Dr. V. M. Government Medical College

• MS, 2003, Dr. V. M. Government Medical College

- Best scientific paper award at Neurocon 2011 Bengaluru, 60th annual conference of the Neurological Society of India - First in M.S. Orthopaedics in the University – November 2003 - Best Outgoing Student in MBBS - February 1999 - Dr. Erram prize -first in Anatomy- November 1995 - Prof. Dr. John L S Eden prize – first in Surgery(Final year MBBS) – October 1998 - Late Raghunath Jairam Joshi Walwa prize – first in Final year MBBS examination - October 1998 - The Yashwant Mahadeo Joshi Prize - first in Final year MBBS examination – October 1998

• Middle fossa extradural repair of sphenoidal encephaloceles Krishna Prabhu, Kartik Revanappa Kumbhar, Ari George Chacko British Journal of Neurosurgery 2011 Feb;25(1):124-6.

• Comparison of Nurick grading system and modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association scoring system in the evaluation of patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Kumbhar Kartik Revanappa, Rajshekhar V. European Spine Journal. 2011 Sep;20(9):1545-51. DOI: 10.1007/s00586-011-1773-y.

• Changes in the range of motion of the cervical spine and adjacent segments at ≥24 months after uninstrumented corpectomy for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Vedantam A, Kumbhar Kartik Revanappa, Rajshekhar V. Acta Neurochirugica (Wien). 2011 May;153(5):995-1001.

• Short Term Outcome in Children with WHO grade 3 Supratentorial Anaplastic Ependymoma Kartik Revanappa Kumbhar, Ranjith Moorthy, Vedantam Rajshekhar Abstract - Journal of Paediatric Neurosciences; Year: 2010 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Page: 173-181 Neuropedicon 2010, Hyderabad 20th - 21st November 2010

• Modification of Nurick scale and Japanese Orthopedic Association score for Indian population with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.Revanappa K Kartik, Moorthy RK, Jeyaseelan V, Rajshekhar V Neurology India. 2015 Jan-Feb;63(1):24-9. DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.152627.Neurology India. 2015 Jan-Feb;63(1):24-9. DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.152627.