Consultant Nephrologist
Qualifications
- MBBS - Govt. Medical College, Alappuzha
- MD (General Medicine) - Madras Medical College, Chennai
- MRCP (UK) - Royal College of Physicians, London
- DM (Nephrology) - Madras Medical College, Chennai
Areas of Expertise
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Critical Care Nephrology
- Hemodialysis
- Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
- Insertion of Temporar and Tunneled Dialysis Catheters, CAPD Catheters
- Plasmapheresis
- CRRT
- USG Guided Renal Biopsy
- Renal Transplantation
Published Scientific Papers:
- Aiswarya D, Arumugam V, Dineshkumar T, Gopalakrishnan N, Lamech TM, Nithya G, Sastry BVRH, Vathsalyan P, Dhanapriya J, Sakthirajan R. Use of Remdesivir in Patients With COVID-19 on Hemodialysis: A Study of Safety and Tolerance. Kidney Int Rep. 2021 Mar;6(3):586-593. Doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.12.003. Epub 2020 Dec 18. PMID: 33354635; PMCID: PMC7746511.
- Clinical profile and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients undergoing hemodialysis:Tanuj Moses Lamech, Govindasamy Nithya, Dhanapalan Aiswarya, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Paulpandian Vathsalyan, Shaji Sajmi, Kamalakannan Goutham, Ravindran Krishna, Thanikachalam Dineshkumar, Ramanathan Sakthirajan, Jeyachandran Dhanapriya, Rajendran Padmaraj 10.4103/ijn.IJN_511_20
- A clinical study on the changing dynamics of disease severity, management strategies and outcomes of COVID-19 in patients requiring haemodialysis.Nithya, Govindasamy; Lamech, Tanuj Moses; Arumugam, Venkatesh; Dineshkumar, Thanikachalam; Gopalakrishnan, Natarajan; Aiswarya, Dhanapalan; Shaji, Sajmi; Sastry, Bhagavatula V R H; Solomon, Dolphin; Kannan, Badri Srinivasan; Sakthirajan, Ramanathan; Rajendran, Padmaraj. J Nephrol ; 34(4): 999-1006, 2021 08.Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1245798
- Lamech TM, Nithya G, Aiswarya D, Sastry BVRH, Arumugam V, Gopalakrishnan N. Cavitary pulmonary disease in a patient on dialysis. Semin Dial. 2021 Jul;34(4):315-318. Doi: 10.1111/sdi.12984. Epub 2021 May 28. PMID: 34048609
- Sajmi, S, Goutham, K, Arumugam, V, et al. Efficacy and safety of convalescent plasma therapy in SARS-CoV2 patients on hemodialysis. Hemodialysis International. 2021; 25: 515– 522. https://doi.org/10.1111/hdi.129
Memberships:
- MEMBER, INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- MEMBER, INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, SOUTHERN CHAPTER
- MEMBER, NEPHROLOGY ASSOCIATION OF KERALA
- MEMBER, ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIA, KERALA CHAPTER