Praveen Kumar Etta

Dr. Praveen Kumar Etta

MBBS, MD, DM 

Sr. Consultant Nephrologist & Renal Transplant Physician 

Expertise

• Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
• Acute renal failure (ARF)
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Diabetes and hypertension-related kidney diseases
• Renal stone disease
• Urinary tract infections

He is an expert in all forms of dialysis techniques including

• Hemodialysis (HD)
• Sustained low-efficiency dialysis (SLED)
• Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT)
• Hem perfusion
• Plasma exchange and peritoneal or home dialysis (CAPD and automated PD)

Awards and Recognitions

• Best Oral Paper Award at the XXVI Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, October 2-4, 2015 at Chennai, India, for the paper “Ten-year outcomes of HCV infected renal allograft recipients are not inferior to that of HCV non-infected patients.”
• Started deceased-donor renal transplantation program at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry.

Memberships

• Indian Society of Nephrology (ISN)
• Indian Society of Nephrology – Southern Chapter (ISNSC)
• Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India (PDSI)