Dr. Vijil Rahulan is Transplant Pulmonology at KIMS Hospital Begumpet Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Dr. Vijil Rahulan [MBBS, Diplomate in Pulmonary Diseases ]

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Experience:

 25 Year

Specialization:

  Organ Transplant, Respiratory Medicine , Pulmonologist | Pediatric Pulmonologist | Child Chest Specialist,

Hospitals:

  Artemis Hospitals, Gurugram Haryana, India
KIMS Hospital, Hyderabad, India

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  • Dr. Vijil Rahulan is Transplant Pulmonology and Currently working as Additional Director in the Department of Heart & Lung Transplant Institute at KIMS Hospital Begumpet Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • He is having more than 25 years of experience in the field.
  • He completed his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical College Pune in 1995, Diplomate in Pulmonary Diseases from The American Board Of Internal Medicine in  2001 and Diplomate of American Board of Internal Medicine from American Board of Internal Medicine in 1999.
  • He did Fellowship in Critical Care medicine from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
  • He received the training in Interventional Pulmonology at Lahey Clinic, Massachusetts, USA and in Lung Transplantation at Barnes Jewish Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
  • He worked 7 years of full time consultative practice experience in USA in the field of Pulmonolgy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine..
  • He was Actively involved in the first lung transplant done in India in 2011.
  • He has Experience of more than 150 Lung Transplantations since 2011.

His Recognition:

  • Elected Fellow of American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians and is a member of American Society of Critical Care medicine and American association of Bronchology.
  • Executive Committee Member of Indian Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Member of Indian Chest Society, Chest Council of India, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

His Expertise :

  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Lung Transplant
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Pulmonary Function Test,
  • Thoracoscopy
  • Tracheostomy and Sleep Study

 


  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Lung Transplant
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Pulmonary Function Test,
  • Thoracoscopy
  • Tracheostomy and Sleep Study

Currently working as Additional Director in the Department of Heart & Lung Transplant Institute at KIMS Hospital Begumpet Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Past Experience :

 

  • H.O.D, Pulmonary/Critical Care & Senior Transplant Pulmonologist Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine & Lung Transplantation At Gleneagles Global Health city, Chennai (from 2009 till May 2020)
  • consultative practice experience in USA in the field of Pulmonolgy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine..
  • MBBS from Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1995
  • Diplomate in Pulmonary Diseases from The American Board Of Internal Medicine, 2001
  • Diplomate of American Board of Internal Medicine from American Board of Internal Medicine, 1999

 

  • Elected Fellow of American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians and is a member of American Society of Critical Care medicine and American association of Bronchology.
  • Executive Committee Member of Indian Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Member of Indian Chest Society, Chest Council of India, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Publications:

Has published several research papers in reputed international journals in the field of Pulmonlogy Medicine and Lung Transplantation

  1. First Series of Combined Heart & Lung Transplantation from India April 2020, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation39(4):S387 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.505
  2. AIRWAY COMPLICATIONS POST LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: LARGEST SINGLE CENTER INDIAN EXPERIENCE June 2020, CHEST 157(6):A450 DOI:10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.510
  3. Tailored Immunosuppression Using CYP3A5 Metaboliser Status in Heart and Lung Transplant Cases - An Indian Study April 2020, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation39(4):S504 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.107
  4. Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis: A rare disease treated with lung transplantation, first case from India November 2019, Lung India 36(6):546 DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_50_19
  5. Correlation of Tacrolimus Levels and Metabolizer Status Based on CYP3A5 Polymorphism in Indian Lung Transplant Recipients April 2019, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation38(4):S410 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2019.01.1045
  6. A real life experience on the efficacy and safety of mycophenolatemofetil in connective tissue disorder associated interstitial lung disease – a retrospective study June 2018, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 77(Suppl 2):1533-1533 DOI10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-eular.3395
  7. Establishing a Lung Transplant Program in a Resource Constrained Setting April 2018, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation37(4):S255 DOI:10.1016/j.healun.2018.01.635
  8. Complications and management of attempted suicide by intrapleural injection of prallethrin March 2016, Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine20(3):182 DOI:10.4103/0972-5229.178184
  9. Single lung transplantation in India: an initial experience September 2013, The Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences 55(2):101-3
  10. Endobronchial cryptococcosis: A rare cause of lung collapse January 2010, Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology 17(1):76-9 DOI:10.1097/LBR.0b013e3181cd95da

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