Dr Meghana Reddy S

About Doctor :

Expertise :

• Asthma
• COPD-smoking related lung diseases
• Tuberculosis management
• Occupational lung diseases
• Bronchiectasis
• Lung cancer
• Interstitial lung diseases
• Sleep-disordered breathing and sleep medicine
• Respiratory failure and ards management
• Rare lung diseases like sarcoidosis and vasculitis and other autoimmune diseases involving the lung.
• Performed numerous fiber-optic Bronchoscopic Procedures such as Bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL)
• Transbronchial lung biopsies(TBLB)
• Transbronchial needle aspiration(TBNA)
• Convex Probe and Radial Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS-TBNA) for diagnosis of TB, Malignancy, Sarcoidosis and other rare disorders
• Expertise in complex Rigid Bronchoscopic procedures
• Airway foreign body removals
• Airway stenting for Benign and Malignant tracheobronchostenosis and tracheoesophageal fistula.
• Cryo lung biopsies for evaluation of interstitial lung diseases
• Balloon Brachioplasty for Tracheobronchostenosis
• Tumour debulking for both lung and extrapulmonary malignancies
• Spigot placement for management of massive hemoptysis and fistulas
• Medical Thoracoscopy for diagnosis of pleural diseases like TB, malignancy, other rare diseases, and therapeutic procedures like adhesiolysis for empyema and pleurodesis
• Competent in performing respiratory procedures including intercostal tube drainage (Conventional and Pigtail), Indwelling pleural catheter insertion

Past Experience :

• Senior resident in the Pulmonary medicine department at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
• Consultant pulmonologist in Sudheendra medical mission hospital, Kochi.

Awards & Achievements :

• Clinical Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology- 1 year

Languages :

• English
• తెలుగు
• हिन्दी