Personal Profile
Mr Rajasundaram Rajaganeshan is an established Consultant Surgeon specialising in laparoscopic and colorectal surgery. He enjoys the full range of general surgical procedures providing laparoscopic and open surgery for hernias and coloproctological surgical procedures. His special interests relate to proctology with currently the largest number of patients treated by the new VAAFT procedure in the country.
Mr Rajaganeshan has also performed a large number of advancement flaps for chronic fissures which are resistant to treatment. He performs a large number of haemorrhoidal procedures and has successfully completed his training in the Rafaelo procedure (this haemorrhoidal procedure can be undertaken without anaesthetic).
Mr Rajaganeshan’s other passion is pelvic floor with new innovative management strategies putting the patient first. He is also looking for new innovative treatments for faecal incontinence with one of the first surgeons to use sphinkeeper / gatekeeper in the country. He is developing new management strategies for chronic constipation with irrigation (antegrade and retrograde) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Improvement of the quality of life is in the centre of all his treatments.
Mr Rajaganeshan is a national trainer for VAAFT, EPSIT and THD procedures and has presented the different techniques in national and international meetings as an invited speaker.
Current NHS/University Posts
- Consultant General Surgeon, Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust
Clinical interests
- Hernias
- Haemorrhoids
- Anal Fissures
- Fistula (anal/ colovaginal/ colovesical)
- Pelvic floor incontinence
- Rectal prolapse
- Laparoscopic colorectal surgery (Benign and malignant disease)
Treatments offered
- Anal fistula surgery
- Epigastric hernia repair
- Femoral hernia repair
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Hernia repair paraumbilical and umbilical
- Incisional hernia
- Pilonidal sinus surgery
- Surgery for rectal prolapse