Dr. Ravindra M. Mehta Pulmonologist in Bangalore

Dr. Ravindra M. Mehta

Pulmonologist, Bangalore

MBBS, MD, FCCP

  • 1 Hospital

About

  • Established clinician, researcher, and a teacher in the field of Pulmonology (Respiratory/Chest Medicine), Critical care (Intensive Care)and Sleep Disorders Medicine
  • Has an extensive academic training and professional experience, both in India and the USA
He is American Board Certified in the following subspecialties:
  • Diplomat of the American Board of Pulmonary (Respiratory/Chest)    Medicine
  • Diplomat of the American Board of Critical Care (Intensive Care) Medicine
  • Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine 
  • Diplomat of the American Association of Sleep Medicine
  • Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine (General Medicine)

Specialities

  • Pulmonology

  • Critical Care

Expertise

Education

  • MBBS, MD, FCCP
  • MBBS from the Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital (University of Mumbai), MD in Internal medicine (General Medicine) from LokmanyaTilak (Sion) hospital in Mumbai
  • Completed a second MD in Internal medicine (General Medicine) from the State University of New York at Brooklyn (Downstate Medical Center)
  • In the USA
  • Fellowship training in multiple fields which includes Pulmonary (Respiratory/Chest) Medicine, Critical Care (Intensive care) medicine, and Sleep Disorders Medicine from Winthrop University Hospital in New York
  • This was followed by training in Interventional Pulmonology in New York, Boston, and France.

Practice Information

Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road

Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road

154/11, Opp, I.I.M, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560076

Achievements & Contributions

  • Books & Chapter:Mehta R, Niederman MS. Acute infectious pneumonia.Irwin &Rippe’s Intensive   Care Medicine, 5th Ed, 796-816. Rewritten 6th Edition
  • Mehta R, Niederman MS. Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Med., Springer Verlag 2001; 151-161
  • Mehta R. Obstructive Sleep Apnea. “Head and Neck Disorders” Orient Longman, India
  • Publications & Reviews:Mehta R, Niederman MS. Adequate empirical therapy minimizes the impact of diagnostic methods in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia. Crit Care Med 2000; 28,8: 3092-3094.
  • Mehta R, Niederman MS et al. Natural history and variability of respiratory isolates and antibiotic susceptibility in a medical ICU. Chest 2000; 118, 4 (Suppl): 178S3.
  • Mehta R, Weinstein MD et al. Rapid Eye Movement-specific Obstructive Sleep Apnea: a demographically and clinically distinct subset of patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Sleep 2000; 23, 2:A78-79
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Heart Failure with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration and Central Sleep Apnea- an important factor influencing mortality. ClinPulm Med 2000; 7,6: 344-345
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Invasive or Non-invasive management of suspected Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia ? - An old controversy revisited. ClinPulm Med 2000; 7,5: 277-279
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Non-Invasive Ventilation: An alternative to prolonged intratracheal intubation in Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure. ClinPulmMed 2000; 7,2: 107-108
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia needingMechanical Ventilation: What determines Prognosis? ClinPulm Med 2000; 7,4: 214-215
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Making breathing easier: Does Tracheotomy decrease the work of Breathing in Ventilator-Dependent patients? ClinPulm Med 2000; 7,1: 62-63
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Antibiotic restriction and rotation for Ventilator-associated Pneumonia-does it make a difference? ClinPulm Med 2001; 8,1: 55-56
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. A better mode of ventilation in patients with acute hypercapnicCOPD exacerbations and Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema.ClinPulm Med 2001; 8,3: 188-190
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. A Novel Therapy for Sleep Apnea in patients with Chronic Renal Failure on Hemodialysis.ClinPulm Med 2001; 8,4: 253-254
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Initial vasopressor for cardiac arrest: vasopressin orepinephrine? ClinPulm Med 2001; 8,6: 366-67
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Clinical application of a prognostic model for severe CAP. Chest 2001; 119: 312-313.
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Prognostic importance of CPAP in patients with CHF and Cheyne Stokes Respiration-Central Sleep Apnea. Circulation 2001; 103: e121
  • Mehta R, F Gress, J Ilowite et al. Role of Endoscopic Esophageal Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS-FNA) in the diagnosis of Sarcoidosis. Am J of Resp. & Crit. Care Med. 2001;163, 5: A558
  • Mehta R, O Radu, Pollack S, Niederman MS, MD. Natural Variability of Respiratory Pathogens and Antibiotic Sensitivity in a Medical Intensive Care Unit.Am J of Resp. & Crit. Care Med 2001; 163, 5:A929.
  • Alobeidy S, Mehta R ,Niederman MS. Etiology and Outcome of Hemoptysis in patients on Anticoagulation Therapy. Am J of Resp.& Crit. Care Med 2001; 163, 5: A65
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. How Common is the “Classical” Presentation of Narcolepsy in Clinical Practice? Sleep 2001; 24: A31119.
  • Mehta R, Weinstein MD. Is a History of Hypothyroidism a Risk Factor forObstructive Sleep Apnea.Sleep 2001; 24: A326-27
  • Mehta R, Lazar J, Hurewitz AN.EKG characteristics reliably distinguish between pre-capillary and post-capillary pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2001; 120, 4 (Suppl), 196S.
  • Mehta RM, Radu OA et al. The Impact of Vancomycin usage on subsequent patterns of Gram-positive resistance. Am J of Resp.& Crit. Care Med 2001; 167, 7:A559
  • Mehta R, Groth ML, Weinstein MD. Clinical characteristics of the Nocturnal Sleep-related Eating syndrome. Sleep 2002; 25: A485
  • Mehta R, Niederman MS. Nosocomial Pneumonia. CurrOpin in Infect Dis 2002;15: 387-394
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. A Study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in the Intensive Care Unit: lessons learnt from screening and genotyping. ClinPulm Med2002
  • Mehta R, Groth ML. Antibiotic rotation: A simple solution for antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit. ClinPulm Med 2002; 9, 4: 242-243
  • Radu OA, Kudalkar DP, Mehta RM et al. Antibiotic Usage and Respiratory Pathogens resistance Pattern in an ICU.Am J of Resp.& Crit. Care Med 2003; 167, 7:A562
  • Mehta RM, Niederman MS. Nosocomial pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit. J Int. Care Med. 2003; 18,4.
  • Mehta RM, Beal A. Targeting comprehensive outcomes in Intensive Care and beyond: a holistic paradigm. Chest- Pulmonary Perspectives Jun 2004; 21,2: 7-10
  • 29. Ravindra M. Mehta, Alice Beal.A New Look at Endocrinopathy of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock. Chest- Pulmonary Perspectives Dec 2005; 22, 4
  • M.D. Cohen, Mehta RM, M. Cutaia. Combined Accelerometry and AmbulatoryOximetry Monitoring: A New Approach To Quantify Hypoxemia and Activity in COPD Patients. Proc. Am. Thorac. Soc. 2005; 2: A652
  • Cohen Miriam D., PawaSakshi, Mehta Ravindra, et al. Ambulatory Monitoring of Oximetry and Activity in Patients with Advanced Lung Disease: A New Approach to Optimize Long-term Oxygen Therapy. Chest 2005 128: 158S-a
  • Varghese Sholu, Cohen Miriam D., Mehta Ravindra, CutaiaMichael"Dipper or Persister?" Duration of desaturation is more relevant than severity forfunctional performance in COPD. Chest 2006 130: 98S-c-99
  • Cohen M, Mehta R, Cutaia M. Activity/Oxygen Profile in Patients with Chronic Lung Disease. Proc. Am. Thorac. Soc. Apr 2006; 3: A318
  • Ravindra Mehta, MichealCutaia. The role of interventional pulmonary procedures in the management of post-obstructive pneumonia.Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2006; 8(3):207-14
  • R.M. Mehta, A. Aneja, R. Sahni. Antibiotic Resistance in the ICU.Neth J Crit Care 2007; 11, 2: 72-80
  • Vanthanh Ly, Ravindra Mehta, Andrew Seymour, Michael Cutaia. Multicentric granular cell tumor complicated by tracheobronchial obstruction. Journal of Bronchology 2007; 14,4: 269-71
  • MuraliChakravarthy, PadmajaKamble, KadapaSatish, Ravindra Mehta, et al. Spontaneous Respiration for endoscopic cauterization and stenting of a tracheal tumour using thoracic epidural anesthesia. J CardiothoracVascAnesth 2008: 22,6: 822-824
  • Mehta Ravindra.,Reyas A.K., SrinivasanLakshmipriya et al Medical Thoracoscopy in an effective treatment Modality for the Treatment of LoculatedEmoyema.Chest 2009;136: 46S
  • Mehta Ravindra, KasargodChethan, Reddy Prabhakar. Treatment of Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumothorax by Pleuroscopic Talc Pleurodesis with Conscious Sedation.Chest 2009;136: 46S
  • Tauro D, Roy S, K Madhusudhan, Ravindra Mehta. Extracorporeal Membrance Oxygenation (ECMO) for amlodipine overdose: A life saving intervention. Chest 2009: 136: 37S-38.
  • MuralidharRamchandra T., DeshpandeShrikant, Ramachandran Deepak, Mehta Ravindra M. Cardiac Bypass Erythroderma. Chest 2009:136: 45S-e-46
  • Murlidhar TR, Sanchayan R, Ramachandran D, Deepak T, Ravindra Mehta, Critically ill patients with H1NI pneumonia/ALI - The Indian experience. Abstract accepted at ERS 2010
  • Ravindra Mehta, Muralidhar T R, Sathish K S.Innovative and unconventional methods for the management of massive hemoptysis: A novel approach. Abstract accepted at ERS 2010
  • Lakshmipriya S, Rajani S.B, Ravindra Mehta. A Rare Case of Primary Pleural Synovial Sarcoma. Chest October 2010 138:4
  • Ravindra Mehta, L.B.Arjun, S Lakshmi Priya, Reddy P, et al. Complex TBNA’ – Prevalence and diagnostic yield in a referral population. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2010;181: A5152.
  • Ravindra M, Nidhi G, et al. Non-Real-Time CT-Guided TBNA/TBB – A novel of increasing diagnostic yield in TBNA and TBB. Chest 2010;138:4
  • KalpanaBabu, RaghuvirKini, Ravindra Mehta. Scleral Nodule and BilatealDisc Edema as a Presenting Manifestation of Systemic Sarcoidosis. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation 2010; 18 (3): 158-161
  • Deepak Tauro, Ravindra Mehta, MadhusudanKalluraya. What looks like Sepsis, but is not Sepsis: Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome. IJCCM Jan 2011 Vol 15: Supplement 1; S16
  • Ravindra Mehta, Arjun L.B, Kalpana B, et al. Oculo-Pulmonary Syndromes –AScientific approach to diagnosis. Chest2011:140:4
  • Ravindra Mehta, A. Singla, A. L Balaji et al.Conventional TBNA In The Era Of EBUS - "Not A Lost Art".Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2012;185: A3001
  • A L Balaji, Ravindra Mehta, Abhinav S. A Large Posterior Tracheal Wall TearManaged By Silicone Stenting: An Out-Of-The-Box Solution To A Life-ThreateningInterventional Pulmonary (IP) Problem. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2012;185:A5187
  • KalpanaBabu, RaghuvirKini, Ravindra Mehta et al. Predictors for Tubercular Uveitis: A Comparison Between Biopsy-Proven Cases of Tubercular and Sarcoid Uveitis. Retina 2012; 32,5: 1017 -1020
  • American College Chest Physicians
  • Indian Association of Bronchology
  • American Thoracic Society
  • Indian Chest Society
  • Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Indian Association of Allergy/Immunology
  • Karnataka Medical Council, India
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