About
Mr Loganathan is a consultant colorectal surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Claremont Private Hospital.
Mr Loganathan qualified from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 2000 (MBChB) and also completed an intercalated degree in Pharmacology (BSC Hons).
His surgical training was in the Yorkshire region. He spent 2 years in clinical research at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds. During this time, he was awarded a major funding with the Bert Inman Fellowship grant. His research into sepsis after surgery resulted in a number of international presentations and publications in high impact journals. This culminated in the award of a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from the University of Leeds. His higher surgical training was throughout the Yorkshire region at Hull, York, Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds where he trained in all aspects of general and colorectal surgery.
At the end of his higher surgical training, Mr Loganathan was awarded the Ethicon Royal College of Surgeons Travel Grant and he completed 2 years of prestigious fellowships in leading colorectal surgery units in Australia.
His first year of fellowship training was at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide working with Professor David Wattchow and Mr Jim Sweeney where he gained specialist training in colorectal cancer surgery, particularly complex cases and recurrent cancers. He also gained broad experience in colorectal surgery for non cancer cases, hernias including large/complex incisional hernias, emergency surgery and advanced gynaecological malignancy. His second year of fellowship was at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide working with the pioneering laparoscopic surgeons Professor Peter Hewett and Mr Alex Karatasses. Mr Loganathan gained extensive experience in laparoscopic colorectal surgery for benign and cancer cases. He also gained wide experience in general colorectal surgery including new approaches for haemorrhoid surgery and published several research papers during this time.
Mr Arun Loganathan was awarded the iWantGreatCare certificate of excellence in 2022 for delivering outstanding care.
Current practice
Clinically, Mr Loganathan works at one of the largest colorectal units in the UK with a high volume of colorectal cancer and non-cancer cases. He is an accredited expert at minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery and performs a large number of these cases . His outcome data is amongst the best locally and nationally and can be accessed here.
He performs surgery for bowel disorders including colorectal cancer, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease and approximately 80- 90% of these are performed laparoscopically.
Mr Loganathan is an experienced accredited endoscopist and performs colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy.
He offers modern treatments for haemorrhoids including haemorrhoidectomy and Doppler guided treatment (HALO). He has an interest in hernia surgery especially inguinal hernias and treats incisional, umbilical, femoral and all other ventral hernias.
Mr Loganathan is also one of a few surgeons in the UK fully trained in robotic colorectal surgery. Robotic surgery in the most advanced form of minimally invasive surgery which allows a surgeon to operate with a very high level of precision leading to improved outcomes.
Mr Loganathan performs robotic surgery using the da Vinci Xi System at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital primarily for patients with colorectal cancer.
Details of robotic surgery can be accessed here.
Mr Loganathan remains active in clinical research and is principal investigator for ongoing clinical trials. He has published a number of papers on a wide range of topics including hernia surgery, sepsis, haemorrhoid surgery, pilonidal sinus and faecal incontinence (list of publications below) He is also involved in teaching medical students and is a tutor for the University of Edinburgh Medical School Masters of Surgery Course.
Publications
Papers
Laparoscopic repair of a complex, recurrent incisional hernia with sac excision and primary closure of the fascial defect: video vignette
A Loganathan, C MacDonald and Alex Karatassas
Colorectal Disease 2016 Jan;18(1):108-9
Intra-abdominal sepsis
A Loganathan
Surgery (Oxford) 2016
Pudendal nerve injury in men with faecal incontinence after radiotherapy for prostate cancer
A Loganathan, A Schloithe, J Hutton, EK Yeoh, D Wattchow
Acta Oncologica. 2015 Mar 3:1-7
Transanal haemorrhoidal dearterialisation for the treatment of grade III and IV haemorrhoids: a three-year experience
A Loganathan, A Das, AJ Luck, PJ Hewett
ANZ J Surg. 2016 Jan-Feb;86(1-2):59-62
Enteropathy associated T-cell lymphoma presenting with multiple episodes of small bowel haemorrhage and perforation
A Pun, H Kasmeridris, NA Reiger, A Loganathan
Journal of Surgical Case Rep. 2014; Mar 20(3)
Two distinct crypt cell types secrete chloride and potassium in human colon
JE Linley, A Loganathan, S Kopananti, GI Sandle, M Hunter
Gut 2014; Mar; 63(3): 472-9
Prolonged pudendal nerve terminal motor latency is associated with decreased resting and squeeze pressures in the intact anal sphincter
A Loganathan, A Schloithe, C Liyanage, M Costa, D Wattchow
Colorectal Disease 2013; Nov; 15(11): 1410-5
Small bowel obstruction from laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding connecting tube
TC Sia, P Gatenby, A Loganathan, T Bright
ANZ Journal of Surgery 2013; May; 83(5): 389-90
The surgical treatment of intra-abdominal sepsis
A Loganathan and J Gunn
Surgery (Oxford) 2012; Dec; 30(12): 662-6
Pilonidal disease – time to re-evaluate a common pain in the rear
A Loganathan, R A Zadeh, JE Hartley
Diseases of Colon and Rectum 2012; Apr; 55(4): 491
Basolateral potassium (Ikca) channel inhibition prevents increased colonic permeability induced by chemical hypoxia
A Loganathan, JE Linley, M Hunter, I Rajput, JPA Lodge, GI Sandle
American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 2011; Jan; 300(1): G146-53
Initial evaluation of Permacol bioprosthesis for the repair of complex incisional and parastomal hernias
A Loganathan, WG Ainslie, KR Wedgwood
Surgeon 2010; Aug; 8(4): 202-5
Inflammatory pseudotumours of the liver – a spectrum of presentation and management options
P Goldsmith, A Loganathan, AJ Sheen, P Prasad, A Baird, GJ Toogood, JPA Lodge, KR Prasad
European Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009; Dec 35(12): 1295-8
Letter; Re: The carpal bones: a basic test of medical students’ and junior doctors’ knowledge of anatomy
A Loganathan
Surgeon 2006; Apr 4(2): 122-3
Cancer of ileostomy: a late complication of colectomy for ulcerative colitis
E Agabiti, A Loganathan, M Rimmer, RA Eames, PT Cullen
Acta Chirurgica Belgica 2005; Feb; 105 (1): 99-101
Benign papillary mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis
A Loganathan, NE New, RK Calleja
Internet Journal of Urology 2004; Vol 2 No1
CADASIL: A case presenting with symptoms of depression
N Thomas, T Mathews, A Loganathan
Scottish Medical Journal 2000; 4, 344-345
Effect of alcohol and temazepam on performance in memory and psychomotor performance – a dose response comparison
B Tiplady, H Faineteau, A Loganathan et al
Human Psychopharmacology 1998; 13, 285-291
Selected Abstracts
Abnormal pudendal nerve function in men with faecal incontinence after radiotherapy for prostate cancer
A Loganathan, A Schloithe, EK Yeoh, PG Dinning, D Wattchow
Colorectal Disease 16 (Suppl. 2), 2014; 4–37
Potassium channel blockade prevents increased colonic permeability during ischaemia: a novel therapeutic strategy to reduce sepsis associated with liver surgery
A Loganathan, JE Linley, JPA Lodge, M Hunter, GI Sandle
Gut 56 (Supp II): 2007; A158
Acute metabolic stress activates intermediate conductance potassium (ik) channels in the basolateral membrane of human colonic crypts
A Loganathan, JE Linley, JPA Lodge, M Hunter, GI Sandle
Gastroenterology 130 (4,Suppl.2) 2006; A493-A494
Calcium activated potassium channels in human colonic crypts: a target for treatment of secretory diarrhoea?
JE Linley, A Loganathan, JPA Lodge, M Hunter, GI Sandle
Gastroenterology 130 (4,Suppl.2) 2006; A372
Human intestinal potassium channel function during metabolic stress – implications for the pathogenesis of sepsis during complex liver surgery
A Loganathan, M Hunter, GI Sandle, JPA Lodge
British Journal of Surgery 2006; 93(S3): 1–57
Management of inflammatory pseudotumour of the liver – a systematic review
A Loganathan, AJ Sheen, A Young, R Rajasundaram, P Prasad, A Baird, GJ Toogood, JPA Lodge, KR Prasad British Journal of Surgery 2006; 93(S1): 101–120
Acute metabolic stress increases the K+ conductance of human colonic crypts via the activation of basolateral Ca2+- sensitive, intermediate conductance K+ channels (IKCa)
A Loganathan, JE Linley, JPA Lodge, GI Sandle, M Hunter
Proceedings of the Physiological Society 2006; 2 PC38
Basolateral K+ conductance is decreased during cAMP stimulated Cl- secretion in human colonic crypts
JE Linley, AA Al Hazza, A Loganathan, GI Sandle, M Hunter
Proceedings of the Physiological Society, 2006
Book Chapter
Fecal Peritonitis Loganathan A, Hartley JE
In Brown, SR, Hartley JE, Hill J, Scott N, Williams JG, Editors
Contemporary Coloproctology London: Springer, 2012. P555-571