Dr. Penmetsa Vijay Varma — Consultant Nephrologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Penmetsa Vijay Varma is a Consultant Nephrologist at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, in Hyderabad, with more than 17 years of experience. His profile records nephrology together with paediatric nephrology.

His list covers chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndrome, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, percutaneous renal biopsy, and the full arc of transplant care from pre-transplant evaluation through post-transplant follow-up and graft dysfunction. Paediatric chronic kidney disease and paediatric dialysis sit alongside the adult work.

He read MBBS at Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad between 2002 and 2008, took his MD in general medicine at Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences in Narketpally from 2009 to 2012, and his DM in nephrology at M S Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore from 2012 to 2015. He also completed the ISN-ANIO clinical nephropathology certificate programme between March 2014 and January 2015, which is training in reading the biopsy rather than only taking it.

His published work follows from that. He has co-authored papers on steroid therapy in immunoglobulin A-dominant poststaphylococcal glomerulonephritis, on unusual fungal infections and abrupt anuria in renal transplant recipients, on leishmaniasis in a transplant patient, on hypertension in chronic kidney disease, and on histologic patterns of primary adult onset nephrotic syndrome. Two of his larger studies are case series on kidney injury in pregnancy: a review of 99 cases of postpartum acute kidney injury, and an analysis of 165 pregnancy-related cases.

He won a gold medal from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences in his final MBBS year and paper prizes at the annual NAK conferences in 2014 and 2015.