Discipline of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr Rajhmun Madansein did Undergraduate training at The University of Natal, post graduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at Wentworth and King George V Hospitals in Durban. Associate Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden His research interest is on Surgery for coronary artery disease and inflammatory lung disease.

Surgery for coronary artery disease and inflammatory lung disease.

1. Shreemanta K. Parida, Rajhmun Madansein, Nalini Singh, Nesri Padayatchi, Iqbal Master, Kantharuben Naidu, Alimuddin Zumla, Markus Maeurer

Cellular therapy in Tuberculosis International Journal of Infectious Diseases 32 (2015) 32–38, 2015

1.    Rajhmun Madansein, Shreemanta Parida, Nesri Padayatchi, Nalini Singh, Iqbal Master, Kantharuben Naidu, Alimuddin Zumla, Markus Maeurer

Surgical Treatment of Complications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, including Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis International Journal of Infectious Diseases 32 (2015) 61–67

1.   Gordon Wells, Joel N. Glasgow, Kievershen Nargan, Kapongo Lumamba, Rajhmun Madansein, Kameel Maharaj, Robert L. Hunter, Threnesan Naidoo, Llelani Coetzer, Stephan le Roux, Anton du Plessis, and Adrie J. C. Steyn

Micro–Computed Tomography Analysis of the Human Tuberculous Lung Reveals Remarkable Heterogeneity in Three-dimensional Granuloma Morphology American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(5), 2021

1.  Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization.

Cele S, Jackson L, Khoury DS, Khan K, Moyo-Gwete T, Tegally H, San JE, Cromer D, Scheepers C, Amoako DG, Karim F, Bernstein M, Lustig G, Archary D, Smith M, Ganga Y, Jule Z, Reedoy K, Hwa SH, Giandhari J, Blackburn JM, Gosnell BI, Abdool Karim SS, Hanekom W; NGS-SA; COMMIT-KZN Team, von Gottberg A, Bhiman JN, Lessells RJ, Moosa MS, Davenport MP, de Oliveira T, Moore PL, Sigal A. Nature. 2022 Feb;602(7898):654-656. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04387-1. Epub 2021

1.  HIV-1 Vpr drives a tissue residency-like phenotype during selective infection of resting memory T cells.

Reuschl AK, Mesner D, Shivkumar M, Whelan MVX, Pallett LJ, Guerra-Assunção JA, Madansein R, Dullabh KJ, Sigal A, Thornhill JP, Herrera C, Fidler S, Noursadeghi M, Maini MK, Jolly C. Cell Rep. 2022 Apr 12;39(2):110650. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110650.

1.  Multimodal profiling of lung granulomas in macaques reveals cellular correlates of tuberculosis control.

Gideon HP, Hughes TK, Tzouanas CN, Wadsworth MH 2nd, Tu AA, Gierahn TM, Peters JM, Hopkins FF, Wei JR, Kummerlowe C, Grant NL, Nargan K, Phuah JY, Borish HJ, Maiello P, White AG, Winchell CG, Nyquist SK, Ganchua SKC, Myers A, Patel KV, Ameel CL, Cochran CT, Ibrahim S, Tomko JA, Frye LJ, Rosenberg JM, Shih A, Chao M, Klein E, Scanga CA, Ordovas-Montanes J, Berger B, Mattila JT, Madansein R, Love JC, Lin PL, Leslie A, Behar SM, Bryson B, Flynn JL, Fortune SM, Shalek AK. Immunity. 2022 May 10;55(5):827-846.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.04.004. Epub 2022 Apr 27.

1.   On-X mitral valve leaflet embolization presenting as acute pulmonary oedema.

Sidali L, Ndibi N, Moopanar M, Madansein R. Egypt Heart J. 2022 May 4;74(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s43044-022-00270-0

1.    Omicron infection enhances Delta antibody immunity in vaccinated persons.

Khan K, Karim F, Cele S, Reedoy K, San JE, Lustig G, Tegally H, Rosenberg Y, Bernstein M, Jule Z, Ganga Y, Ngcobo N, Mazibuko M, Mthabela N, Mhlane Z, Mbatha N, Miya Y, Giandhari J, Ramphal Y, Naidoo T, Sivro A, Samsunder N, Kharsany ABM, Amoako D, Bhiman JN, Manickchund N, Karim QA, Magula N, Abdool Karim SS, Gray G, Hanekom W, von Gottberg A; COMMIT-KZN Team, Milo R, Gosnell BI, Lessells RJ, Moore PL, de Olveira T, Moosa MS, Sigal A. Nature. 2022 May 6. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04830-x.