Infectious Disease Doctor
Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran is an Infectious Disease Doctor in Arcadia, CA
with special training and skill in detecting and treating bacterial, viral, fungal, and tropical infections.
As an Infectious Disease Doctor, Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, MD performs
blood tests, microscopies, blood sensitivity cultures, sputum, urine, stool, joint fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid testing as well as X-ray, CT, ultrasound and MRI scans. Infectious Disease Medicine is
a medical specialty that diagnoses, controls and treats both nosocomial (hospital-acquired) and out-patient based infections. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Infectious Disease Doctors include antibiotic-resistant infections, difficult to diagnose infections, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Infectious Disease Doctors
include examining rashes, lymph nodes, chest, abdomen and genital areas; testing blood, urine, stool, joint fluid and crebrospinal fluid and examining X-ray, CT, ultrasound, and MRI imaging; prescribing antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, anti-parasitics, or botanic medicine to fight detected infections.
An internist who deals with infectious diseases of all types and in all organ systems. Conditions requiring selective use of antibiotics call for this special skill. This physician often diagnoses and treats AIDS patients and patients with fevers which have not been explained. Infectious disease specialists may also have expertise in preventive medicine and travel medicine.
Infectious Disease Doctors in Arcadia, CA
Forensic Pathologist
Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran is a Forensic Pathologist in Arcadia, CA
with special training and skill in traditional medicine, forensic sciences, DNA technology, forensic serology, toxicology, trace evidence, and wound ballistics.
As a Forensic Pathologist, Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, MD performs
research on the circumstances leading up to a death, and examines cadavers to determine the deceased's identity, as well as the time, causes, and manner of death. Forensic Pathology is
a pathology subspecialty that examines cadavers that have died unexpectedly or violently. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Forensic Pathologists include death by both natural causes (disease) and unnatural causes (injury, suicide, or homicide).
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Forensic Pathologists
include reviewing law-enforcement information regarding a death, obtaining the deceased medical histories, collecting evidence through imaging tests and tissue samples during an autopsy, determining the manner and cause of death, preparing official autopsy reports, providing these reports to public and health and safety agencies, and testifying about these findings in court.
A forensic pathologist is expert in investigating and evaluating cases of sudden, unexpected, suspicious and violent death as well as other specific classes of death defined by law. The forensic pathologist serves the public as coroner or medical examiner, or by performing medicolegal autopsies for such officials.
Forensic Pathologists in Arcadia, CA
