About Dr. Santosh Hedau

Dr Santosh Hedau is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Nephrology, Care hospitals, Banjara hills for over a decade. He brings his experience and expertise in his own Kidney Clinic.

He believes in Comprehensive care so that all worries are answered and addressed. He is specialized in all complex kidney diseases including dialysis, transplant, vascular access, peritoneal dialysis etc. He is very active in Academics and Research with Multiple publications in reputed journals.

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.

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

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Ascitic Fluid Ultrafiltration and Reinfusion Therapy (AURT) Piyush Mathur, Rajasekara Chakravarthi, Sethu Babu, Vikranth Reddy, N. Subramanyam, Santosh Hedau Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, Volume 4, S45 – S46
Ultrafiltration by peritoneal route in refractory chronic congestive cardiac failure Rajasekara Chakravarthi M, Santosh Hedau, P. Vikranth Reddy and Piyush Mathur Journal of nephrology and Therapeutics 2013, 3:5
Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Indian Intensive Care Unit – Single Centre Study Piyush Mathur, Rajasekara Chakravarthi Madarasu, Rusheendra Kambhampati, Vikranth Reddy, Santosh Hedau JASN -kidney week supplement 2013
A chapter on “Polymixin B hemoadsorption in septic shock” in Nephro Critical Care workshop manual 2014
Post-transplantation surgical complications in renal transplant recipient patients – an institution-based prospective study Smaranjit Chatterjee, P.M. Siddalinga Swamy, Santosh Hedau, Piyush Mathur, Kalindi Prasad Raju Indian journal of organ transplant, July 2016 (65-69)
Case report – Strongyloid Hyperinfection in a Patient with Immunocompromised Chronic Kidney Disease. Indian J Nephrol. 2017 Sep-Oct;27(5):389-391

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 at Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh) 2013
Oral paper on “Fungal Infection In Renal Transplant Recipients” at Southern chapter conference of Indian society of Nephrology at Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh) 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, on October 22-25, 2015
Oral and poster presentation on “Clinical Significance of Renal Biopsy in AKI” Santosh hedau, Rajasekara Chakravarthi, Vijaya Taurani AKI-CRRT 2016, February 16-19, 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, 2015, Chennai, India
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, 2015, Bengaluru
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” Pawal, Santosh Hedau, P K. Raju, R. Chakravarthi Heart Failure 2016 in Florence, Italy