Profile and Area of Expertise
Dr. Meghana Reddy S, consultant interventional pulmonologist, Medicover Hospitals Hitec City
Area of 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
Experience (Current Position & Previous Positions)
Current Position:
- Dr. Meghana Reddy S, consultant interventional pulmonologist, Medicover Hospitals Hitec City
Previous Positions:
- Senior resident in the Pulmonary medicine department at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
- Consultant pulmonologist in Sudheendra medical mission hospital, Kochi.
Education & Certificates
- MBBS
- MD Pulmonary Medicine
Awards
- Clinical Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology- 1 year
Publications & Presentations
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Memberships
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Languages
- English, Hindi, Telugu
