Best Nephrologist in Hyderabad

Brief Profile

Dr. Santosh Hedau is a Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant surgeon at CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad. With more than 6 years of experience, he is an eminent nephrology doctor in Hyderabad who specializes in Nephrology. Dr. Santosh Hedau works at the CARE Hospitals & Transplant Centre in Banjara Hills, and CARE Hospitals, OPD Centre in Banjara Hills. He has completed the DNB in medicine and nephrology. 

His areas of expertise include Acute kidney injury, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, kidney transplant, critical care nephrology, interventional nephrology, Renal biopsy – native and transplant kidney, Placement of temporary and tunneled IJ catheters, Perm Cath thrombolysis, Percutaneous CAPD catheterisation – acute and chronic, Fistula interventions including fistulogram, fistuloplasty and thromboaspiration, Plasmapheresis, Extracorporeal therapies – Oxiris, Cytosorb, polymyxin, and cardiorenal syndrome.

Field(s) of Expertise

• Acute kidney injury
• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Kidney transplant
• Critical care nephrology
• Interventional nephrology
• Renal biopsy – native and transplant kidney
• Placement of temporary and tunneled IJV catheters
• Perm Cath thrombolysis
• Percutaneous CAPD catheterization – acute and chronic
• Fistula interventions including fistulogram, fistuloplasty, and thromboaspiration
• Plasmapheresis
• Extracorporeal therapies – Oxiris, Cytosorb, polymixin, etc
• Cardiorenal syndrome.

Publications

• Oral paper for Tanker award on “Effect of peritoneal ultrafiltration in patients with refractory chronic congestive cardiac failure” Santosh Hedau, Rajasekara Chakravarthi M.P. Vikranth Reddy, Piyush Mathur. Southern chapter conference of Indian society of Nephrology, Vijaywada, 2013
• Oral paper on “Fungal Infection In Renal Transplant Recipients” at Southern chapter conference of Indian society of Nephrology, Vijaywada, 2013
• Poster presentation on “Spectrum of renal histology in HIV patients with renal involvement - Single centre study” Kumthekar Girish, Chakravarthi Rajasekara, K. T.Vijaya, Reddy Vikranth, Hedau Santosh, ISNCON, Kolkata, 2014
• Poster presentation on “Ultrafiltration by peritoneal route in refractory chronic congestive cardiac failure” Santosh Hedau, R. Chakravarthi, P. Vikranth Reddy, S. Gondane, C. Sashidhar, Praveen Pawal, G. Kumthekar, I. Mohammed, S. Mondhe. ISN’s Forefronts Symposium on Immunomodulation of Cardio-Renal Function Shenzhen, China, October, 2015
• Oral and poster presentation on “Clinical Significance of Renal Biopsy in AKI” Santosh hedau, Rajasekara Chakravarthi, Vijaya Taurani. AKI-CRRT 2016, February, 2016, San Diego, California
• Poster presentation on “To assess effect of ultrafiltration by peritoneal route on echocardiographic parameters in refractory congestive heart failure by two dimensional echo and tissue doppler imaging” at CSI, Chennai, 2015
• Poster presentation on “Prevalence of CKD and risk factors in urban slum population in a community based screening survey’’ Akkineni Nagendra, Rajasekara Chakravarthi, Santosh Hedau, Indian society Of Nephrology conference, Bengaluru, 2015
• Poster presentation on “To assess effect of ultrafiltration by peritoneal route on echocardiographic parameters in refractory congestive heart failure by two dimensional echo and tissue doppler imaging” P. Pawal, Santosh Hedau, P K. Raju, R. Chakravarthi, Heart Failure, Florence, Italy, 2016
• Invited faculty for lecture on “Transplant in HIV patients” at CME in HIV, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad, 2013
• Invited faculty for lecture on “Cardiorenal syndromes” at CRRT Academy, Hyderabad, 2014
• Invited faculty for lecture on “AKI-Nephrologist perspective” at LIVER and KIDNEY symposium, Hyderabad, 2016
• Published book titled “Post Transplant Surgical complications in Renal Transplant recipients” Smaranjit Chatterjee, Santosh Hedau, Piyush Mathur, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing; ISBN 365997675X, 9783659976759, November 2016
• Ultrafiltration by Peritoneal Route in Refractory Chronic Congestive Cardiac Failure Article Jul 2018,Indian Journal of Nephrology Santosh HedauR ChakravarthiV Reddy
• Strongyloid Hyperinfection in a Patient with Immunocompromised Chronic Kidney Disease Sep 2017 Indian Journal of Nephrology Santosh Hedau, V. P. Reddy, S. D. Mondhe, J. V. Devana
• Ascitic Fluid Ultrafiltration and Reinfusion Therapy (AURT) Article Mar 2014 Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology Piyush Mathur Rajasekara ChakravarthiSethu Babu Santosh Hedau

Education

• DNB Medicine
• DNB Nephrology

Languages Known

English, Hindi

Fellow/Membership

• Telangana State Medical Council
• Indian Society of Nephrology
• International Society of Nephrology
• Indian Society of Peritoneal Dialysis
• Indian Society of Nephrology - Southern Chapter
• Indian Society of Organ Transplant

Past Positions

• DMO, Jahangir Hospital, Pune (2007-2008)
• Registrar (ICU), Apollo Hospitals, Madurai (2012-13)
• Senior Resident, Nephrology Department, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad (2015-2016)
• Senior Resident, Nephrology Department, Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad