Rajesh Shenoy MD

Attending Physician The Children's Hospital at Montefiore Attending Physician Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Attending Physician Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine Medical School: University of Mumbai, Seth G.S. Medical College, India Residency: Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore-NYU School of Medicine

Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Rajesh Shenoy, is an expert in pediatric echocardiography-a science that employs ultrasound to capture and analyze detailed images of your child's heart. Dr. Shenoy has special skill in precise echo imaging of children, babies-and unborn babies-with congenital heart disease.

Congenital heart defects form before your baby is born-in the first few weeks after conception. "Some heart lesions are extremely complex," explains Dr. Shenoy. "If not treated immediately after birth, the child ends up paying the price. The best way to address this is by diagnosing the fetus."

Dr. Shenoy works closely with your obstetrician (OB). When your OB advises non-invasive echocardiography, Dr. Shenoy and his team perform 3-D and other echo imaging studies of your baby.

Dr. Shenoy's echo studies and analysis help your OB coordinate your baby's birth and arrange for any immediate interventional care your child may need.

When working with your older baby or child, Dr. Shenoy partners with CHAM's pediatric cardiac surgeon and interventional cardiologists. Dr. Shenoy performs echocardiographic studies before procedures begin and he works with your child's surgeons and interventionists in the operating room or cath lab.

Dr. Shenoy's real-time echo studies help your child's surgeon or cardiologist make crucial decisions in the middle of operations and procedures. His precise echo images help your child's physicians choose correctly-sized heart devices, finish surgery faster and reduce the time your child spends under anesthesia. Exacting echo imaging allows surgeons to double-check procedures before removing your child from heart-lung bypass equipment.

In echocardiography, "our aim is to strive for perfection," says Dr. Shenoy. "Unless we get every detail that is technically feasible to obtain in an echocardiogram, we don't sign off on it." For CHAM echocardiologists "our goal is to get all the answers," emphasizes Dr. Shenoy. "We want to get every piece of information that will help the next physician down the line to help the patient. We feel we owe it to the children."  

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Selected Publications

1. Physical Fitness of Urban American Children. Chatrath R, Shenoy R, Serratto M, Thoele D. Pediatr Cardiol. 2002 Nov-Dec; 23(6): 608-12.
2. Differential regulation of SR calcium transporters by thyroid hormone in rat atria and ventricles. Shenoy R, Klein I, Ojamaa K. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2001 Oct;281(4):H1690-6.
3. Thyroid Hormone Metabolism and Cardiac Gene Expression After Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Rat. Ojamaa K, Kenessey A, Shenoy R, Klein I. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279: E1319-E1324, 2000
4. PHACE Syndrome : An Association of Facial Hemangiomata and Congenital Maformations. McKenna C, Krystal L, Shenoy R, Levine S, Kholwadwala D, Mehta L. American Journal of Human Genetics 65(4):1999
5. Thyroid Hormone (T3) Treatment Following Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Rat Model. Ojamaa K, Kenessey A, Carman D, Shenoy R, Chowdhury D, Klein I. Thyroid Supplement pp. 117, 1999
6. Regulation of Rat Cardiac Kv 1.5 Gene Expression by Thyroid Hormone is Rapid and Chamber-Specific. Ojamaa K, Sabet A, Kenessey A, Shenoy R, Klein I. Endocrinology 140:3170-3176, 1999