Dr. Ravi Prakash Deshpande

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MBBS, MD (Gen Medicine), DNB (Nephrology), DM (Nephrology)

Sr. Consultant Nephrologist

Experience : 28+ Years

Hospitals : NU Hospitals, Mission Road, Bengaluru

Specialities : Nephrology, Renal (Kidney) Biopsy, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Preventive Nephrology, Plasmapheresis, Peritoneal Dialysis

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Dr. Ravi is a senior nephrologist with over 28 years of clinical and academic experience in Nephrology. He received his specialist training in Nephrology from the prestigious Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow, and subsequently spent nearly two decades at St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, where he was extensively involved in clinical care, teaching and academics. His expertise spans general nephrology, acute and chronic kidney disease, critical care nephrology, dialysis and the complete spectrum of renal replacement therapies. A particular area of his clinical interest and expertise is kidney disease in pregnancy, including the management of complex renal problems during pregnancy. His experience across major teaching institutions in India and tertiary-care practice in the Maldives has given him broad exposure to both routine and highly complex kidney disorders.

Professional Membership

Member of Societies

Member of the Association of Physicians of India
Member of Indian Society of Nephrology
Member of the International Society of Nephrology
Member of Indian Society of Peritoneal Dialysis

Presentations

Early and effective Hepatitis B vaccination in patients of CRF and maintenance dialysis using adjuvant GM-CSF at Indian Society of Nephrology Conference, Lucknow, 2001.
Renal failure as a manifestation of vitamin D toxicity in a doctor couple – an interesting case report - at South Zone Nephrology Conference, Thrissur, Feb 2011
Clinical profile and outcome of Intra-cranial bleed in patients undergoing hemodialysis at a tertiary care center- at South Zone Nephrology Conference, Thrissur, Feb 2011.
Diagnostic approach to CAD in CKD patients: What is Nephrologists perspective? At PDSI SJMCH Bangalore Sep 2010.
Dengue infection complicated with acute kidney injury. A retrospective study of clinical features, risk factors and outcome– at ISN Trivandrum 2010.
Diagnostic value of Troponin I in patients with CKD– at ISN Trivandrum 2010 vii. Maintenance hemodialysis as a viable option for ESRD HRV patients in a developing country – is it feasible? -at ISN Trivandrum 2010.
Early graft outcomes in renal allograft recipients with and without ureteral stenting ISOT Hyderabad 2010.
Fungal peritonitis in continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis: Patient and Technique outcomes, A single center experience- PDSI Bangalore 2010.
Peritoneal dialysis in HIV – a single center experience – PDSI Bangalore 2010 (Awarded Best paper)
Peritoneal dialysis in HIV – a single center experience – PD Scienticia 2013.
Effect of variation of climate on incidence of acute myocardial infarction and its complication at 4th Annual Conference of U.P. Chapter of Cardiological Society of India, 1998.
Chaired session at SGPGI Lucknow in renal update CME held in Oct 2019.

Thesis.

Post-transplant diabetes (PTDM) in live renal transplant recipients-A single center experience.
Early and effective Hepatitis B vaccination in patients of CRF and maintenance dialysis using adjuvant GM-CSF.
Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in proteinuric non-diabetic renal disease
Costing of Haemodialysis in a tertiary care hospital.

Presentation

NABH Assessor (Internal and External) - 2013
Certificate in Clinical Audit and Quality Tool, QCI - 201
Six Sigma Green Belt - 2012
Certificate in Biostatistics and Research Methodology - 2011
Health care communication skills - 2012

Publications

Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) in renal transplant recipients: A single centre experience: R.K. Sharma, Ravi Prakash, Amit Gupta. Published in transplantation proceedings, 2003, Feb; 35(2): 266-7. (Awarded Best paper in ISN 2001).
Shobhana G. Nayak, Renuka Satish, Prashant Kedlaya, Ravi Prakash Deshpande, Gokulnath and Isha Garg. Acute Renal Failure during pregnancy – an unusual cause. Nephro Dialysis & Transplant (2007); 22; 264-265
Takayus’s arteritis an Indian perspective: Ravi Prakash. Published in Update IN VASCULITIS- Elsevier publication April 2011.
Wegner’s vaculitis an Indian perspective: Ravi Prakash. Published in Update IN VASCULITIS- Elsevier publication April 2011.
Review of Oxidative Stress in relevance to Uremia: Ravi Prakash. Published in Clinical Queries Nephrology Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 215-221, July 2012.
Dyselectrolypemias and acid based disorders in acute kidney injury: Ravi Prakash. Published in Clinical Queries Nephrology Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 70-75, Jan 2012
Dengue infection complicated with AKI: clinical features, risk factors and outcome - Published in WCN 2011 - #SA134.
Renal failure and pregnancy: Ravi Prakash, MK Mitra. Published in Medicine update 1997.pp 81-8
Authored book called “How to set up a dialysis Unit”, ISBN
Histopathology of lupus nephritis: A single centre cross sectional study from Karnataka, India. Vineetha shobha, Ravi Prakash, Preetha Arvind, S.D.Tarey. Published in Internet Journal of Haematology and Clinical Immunology, Vol. 2, No. 1: 2014.
Participated and contributed in multicentre phase II / III randomized, double blinded, placebo control study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Abatacet vs placebo on background of mycophenolate mofetil and glucocorticoids in subjects with active proliferative glomerulonephritis due to SLE.
Vineeta Shobha, Saba Fathima, Ravi Prakash; Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis - Clinical course and outcome of 60 patients from a single center in South India. It is under review by International journal of Rheumatology since September 2016.
Pranay Arun Kumar, Shreya Sridhar, Jagdish Chaturvedi, Ravi Prakash Deshpande. “Identification of unmet clinical needs in the field of nephrology – A modified bio-design approach”. Med Devices Diagn Eng. 2017, Vol. 2 (1): 52-56.
Ravi Prakash Deshpande, Anitha Devanath, Limesh Marisiddappa, Girish Konasagara Shanthaveeranna. A Pilot study to compare urinary protein of fractional urine collected over 24h period versus traditional 24h urine collection method. International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research, 2020;7(1): 1-7. A pilot study to compare urinary protein of fractional urine collected over 24h period versus traditional 24h urine collection method - Int J Clin Biochem Res (ijcbr.in)
Raviprakash Deshpande, Chettipunyam Chetan. Clinical Profile and Outcome of Intracranial Bleeding in patients undergoing hemodialysis at a Tertiary Hospital. Nephro-Uro Mon. 2020 February; 12 (1): e98242.

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