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Dr. Biji Bahuleyan
M.Ch. Neurosurgery (Vellore) Sr. Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon. Former Epilepsy Surgeon SCTIMST, Trivandrum. Fellowships in Spine Surgery, Neurosurgical Oncology, Functional Neurosurgery & Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (USA)

General Details

Dr Biji Bahuleyan is a senior neurosurgeon and spine surgeon with more than 21 years of clinical and research experience. After his MBBS from T.D Medical College, Alleppey in 1995, Dr Biji completed the 5-year neurosurgery training from the prestigious Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India in 2005. Dr. Biji later worked as a consultant neurosurgeon in Christian Medical College, Vellore for 2 years. He later joined the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India in 2007 where he served initially as a cerebrovascular and skull base fellow and then as a consultant neurosurgeon. The epilepsy treatment program at SCTIMST is considered one among the most reputed in Asia where Dr Biji worked as an epilepsy surgeon.
Later, Dr Biji completed 4 fellowships in various subspecialties in neurosurgery from reputed universities in the United States. The fellowships include Spine surgery (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA); Minimally invasive neurosurgery (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH); Neurosurgical oncology, Functional neurosurgery and pain management (Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH).
Dr Biji has authored many articles that are published in reputed peer-reviewed journals some of which were accepted as their cover illustrations. Dr Biji has also authored many textbook chapters, the most notable one is in the reputed textbook of spine surgery "Benzel's Spine surgery". During the minimally invasive fellowship in the US, Dr Biji designed 4 new minimally invasive (keyhole) surgical approaches for the first time in English literature for the treatment of patients with intractable epilepsy which were published in journals and won many awards. Michael Gaab, the pioneer in neuro endoscopy from Hannover, Germany has written a 3-page commentary article in the journal "World Neurosurgery" on the endoscopic work published by Dr Biji Bahuleyan.
Apart from treating all common neurosurgical disorders (like brain and spine injury, brain and spine tumours, hydrocephalus etc), some of the unique areas where Dr Biji is trained are epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation, placement of spinal cord stimulators and intrathecal pain pumps for patients with chronic pain from spinal disorders and cancer pain and intrathecal baclofen pumps for the treatment of spasticity.
After returning from the US in 2015, Dr Biji served as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at KIMS hospital Trivandrum where he was the academic coordinator for the DNB neurosurgery program. He is an invited faculty for epilepsy surgery training in many reputed institutions and educational forums. Dr Biji is a visiting epilepsy surgeon in some of the reputed epilepsy centers in India. Dr Biji is a visiting neurosurgeon at Sahrudaya Hospital, Alappuzha, Kerala and SN Hospital, Cherthala. Dr Biji is currently a senior neurosurgeon and spine surgeon at Lisie Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.

Qualifications
- MBBS, 1996, T.D Medical College, Alappuzha, Kerala, India
- M.Ch. (Neurosurgery), 2005, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
- Fellowship in Vascular and Skull base surgery, 2007, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, India
- Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, 2012, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
- Fellowship in Spine Surgery, 2013, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, Boston, USA
- Fellowship in Neurosurgical Oncology, 2014, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
- Fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery and Pain Management, 2015, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Achievements
- Best Poster: “Ventilation associated pneumonia in severe head Injury” at 53rd Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India, Indore, India (December 2005)
- Best platform presentation: “Hemispherotomy and Hemispherectomy for intractable epilepsy due to unihemispheric pathology: surgical techniques and outcome” Neurological Society of India Kerala Chapter, Trichur, India (March 2009)
- Best platform presentation: “Endoscopic trans-ventricular hemispherotomy in intractable seizures with unihemispheric pathology: a new approach and cadaveric demonstration” at Garson Research day symposium at Neurological Institute Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio (March 2010)
- Best platform presentation: “Frameless Stereotactic Endoscope-Assisted Trans- Occipital Hippocampal Depth Electrode Placement: Cadaveric Demonstration of a New Approach” at Garson Research day symposium at Neurological Institute Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio (March 2011)
Publications
- B Bahuleyan, L Raghuram, V Rajshekhar, AG Chacko. To assess the ability of MRI to predict consistency of pituitary macroadenomas. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 2006; 20(5): 324-326
- Biji Bahuleyan, Samson Sujit Kumar, Geetha Chack, Ari G Chacko. Post-traumatic intracranial fibrosarcoma – case report and review of the literature. Indian Journal of Neurotrauma 2006; 3(2): 135-137
- Biji Bahuleyan, Kirit Shah, Mathew Joseph. Extensive skull base fractures with multiple cranial nerve palsies – images in Neurotrauma. Indian Journal of Neurotrauma. 2007; 4(1): 71-72
- Biji Bahuleyan, Chacko AG, Daniel RT. Supracerebellar arachnoid cyst – a rare cause of acquired Chiari I Malformation. Case report. J Clin Neurosci. 2007; 14(9): 895-898
- Biji B, Moorthy RK, Rajekhar V. Posterior longitudinal ligament cyst as a rare cause of lumbosacral radiculopathy with positive straight leg raising test. Neurol India. 2008; 56(1): 96-97
- Biji Bahuleyan, Daniel RT, Chaco G, Chaco AG. Epidermoid cysts of velum interpositum. J Clin Neurosc. 2008; 15(10): 1159-1161
- Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Nair S. Immediate postoperative death due to hypothalamic injury following surgery for craniopharyngioma. J Clin Neurosci 2009;16 (6):850-851
- Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Nair S, Rao BR, Easwer HV, Krishna K. Non-surgical management of cystic prolactinomas. J Clin Neurosci 2009;16(11) 1421-1424
- Menon G, Nair S, Sudhir J, Rao BR, Mathew A, Bahuleyan B. childhood and adolescent meningiomas: a report of 38 cases and review of the literature. Acta. Neurochir (Wien). 2009; 151(3):239-244
- Menon G, Bahuleyan B, Nair S. Acute subdural hematoma after trsnssphenoidal surgery. J Clini Neurosci. 2009; 16(1): 160-162
- Kesavadas C, Bahuleyan B, Chatterjee S, Kapilamoorthy TR. Post gamma knife subarachnoid hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. Neurology India. 2010; 58(1): 158-60. 13
- Bahuleyan B, Manjila S, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Minimally invasive endoscopic transventricular hemispherotomy for medically intractable epilepsy: a new approach and cadaveric demonstration. H Neurosurg Pediatr. 2010;6(6):536-540
- Saini J, Singh A, Kesavadas C, Thomas B, Rathore C, Bahuleyan B, Radhakrishnan A, Radhakrishnan K. Role of three-dimentional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3DFLAIR) and proton density magnetic resonance imaging for the detection and evaluation of lesion extent of focal cortical dysplasia in patients with refractory epilepsy. Acta Radiol. 21; 51(2):218-225
- Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Hariharan E, Sharma M, Nair S. Symptomatic posterior fossa and supratentorial subdural hygromas as a rare complication following foramen magnum decompression for Chiari malformation Type I. Authors reply to letter to the editor. J Neurosurg 2011; 114(5): 1488-90
- Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Hariharan E, Sharma M, Nair S. Symptomatic posterior fossa and supratentorual subdural hygromas as a rare complication following foramen magnum decompression for Chiari malformation Type I. J Neurosurg. 2011;114(2):510-513
- Bahuleyan B, Omondon M, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Frameless stereotactic endoscope-assisted transoccipital hippocampal depth electrode placement: cadaveric demonstration of a new approach. Childs Nerv Syst. 2011; 27(8):1317-1320
- Cohen AR, B.Bahuleyan, Robinson S. Unusual resolution of a depressed skull fracture following repeat head trauma: the two-hit hypothesis? Pediatric Neurosurgery.2011;47:230-232
- Radhakrishnan A, James JS, Kesavadas C, Thomas B, Bahuleyan B, Abrahan M, Radhakrishnan K. Utility of diffusion tensor imaging tractography in decision making of extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery. Epilepsy Res. 2011; (1-2):52-63
- Bahuleyan B, Vogel TW, S Robinson, Choen AR. Endoscopic total callosotomy: cadaveric demonstration of a new approach. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2011;47(6):455-460
- Bahuleyan B, Menon GR, Sharma M, Nair S. Expphytic third nerve schwannoma mimicking a mesial temporal intra-axial lesion: case report. Childs Nerv Syst. 2012; 28(3):481-484
- Bahuleyan B, Robinson S, Nair AR, Sivanandapanicker JL, Cohen AR. Anatomic Hemispherectomy: Historical Perspective. World Neurosurg. 2013; 80(3-4):396-398
- Bahuleyan B, Fisher W, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Endoscopic amygdalohippocampectomy: cadaveric demonstration of a new approach. World Neurosurg. 2013 July-Aug; 80 (1-2): 178-82
- Bahuleyan B, Groff MW. Management strategies for patients with spinal synovial cysts. World Neurosurg. 2013;79(2):277-280
- Weaver J, Manjila S, Bahuleyan B, Cohen AR et al. Rhombencephalosynapsis embryopathology and management strategies of associated neurosurgical conditions with a review of the literature. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2013:11(3):320-326
- Vogel TW, Bahuleyan B, Cohen AR, et al. The role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2013;12(1):54-61
- Bahuleyan B, Patel VT et al. Post-traumatic intralaminar hematoma developing between cranial dural layers: a case report. Pediatric Neurosurgery (accepted for publication)
- Michael R Gaab. Endoscopic Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery. Commentary on Endoscopic transventricular Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy; Cadaveric demonstration of a new operative approach by Biji Bahuleyan. World Neurosurg. 2013: July/Aug 80: 59-61
Experience
- Neurosurgeon, Christian Medical College, Vellore February 2005 - February 2007
- Neurosurgeon, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum September 2007 - Jul 2009
- Neurosurgeon, Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Fellow, University Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland July 2009 - June 2012
- Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgery Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA July 2012 - June 2013
- Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Oncology Fellow, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland July 2013 - June 2014
- Neurosurgeon, Functional Neurosurgery and Pain Fellow, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland July 2014 - June 2015
- Neurosurgeon, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum July 2015 - July 2017
- Senior Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon, Lisie Hospital, Kochi July 2017 - Present
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Dr. Biji Bahuleyan
M.Ch. Neurosurgery (Vellore) Sr. Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon. Former Epilepsy Surgeon SCTIMST, Trivandrum. Fellowships in Spine Surgery, Neurosurgical Oncology, Functional Neurosurgery & Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (USA)

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