Dr. Raju Pangeni

Dr. Raju Pangeni

Pulmonology & Critical Care

Senior Consultant

Dr. Pangeni MD, DM is a Consultant Pulmonary, Intensive Care and Sleep Physician with special interest in Airway Diseases and Sleep medicine. He is actively involved in managing patients with various pulmonary and sleep related disorders and providing intensive care at HAMS Hospital, Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu.

He completed his MBBS and MD (Internal Medicine, 2007) from Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu and later achieved Doctorate (DM) degree in “Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine” from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS, Delhi) in 2017. He also has received fellowship on ‘Diabetology’ and observership in ‘critical care’ from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He has published several research papers and articles in various national and international peer reviewed journals. He is an active member of Society of Internal Medicine of Nepal, Nepalese Respiratory Society, Thoracic Society of Nepal, Indian Chest Society and European Respiratory Society. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Patan Academy of Health Sciences for over 5 years.

  • Academic Qualifications

    • MBBS
    • MD
    • DM, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

  • Affiliations

    • Acting Treasurer of the Nepalese Respiratory Society, Life member of the Society of Internal Medicine of Nepal (SIMON), Thoracic Society of Nepal, European Respiratory Society (ERS) and Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine.
    • Member of Nepal Medical Council COVID-19 Treatment Guidance Committee 2021 as an invited expert

  • Publications

    • Haniffa R et al. Impact of a structured ICU training programme in resource-limited settings in Asia. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173483.
    • Chauhan S et al. Management of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with whole lung lavage using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in a postrenal transplant patient with graft failure. Annals of cardiac anaesthesia. 2016; 19(2):379.
    • Pangeni R et al. Successfully managed case of celphos poisoning: a case report and review of literature. J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2014 Oct; 12(28):200–2.
    • Rayamajhi N et al. Influenza B virus: Need for heightened surveillance and epidemiologic case studies. J Patan Acad Health Sci. 2016 Feb 6; 1(2):52.
    • Chundak Sherpa et al. Validation of the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire in Nepal. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis COPD Found. 2(4):281–9
    • Pangeni R et al. Effects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Exercise Capacity and Quality of Life in Indian Patients with Severe COPD. Eur Respir J [Internet]. 2017 Sep 1; 50 (suppl 61). Available from: http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/50/suppl_61/PA3724.abstract
    • Pangeni R et al. A 44-year-old man with hemoptysis. Lung India 2018;35:343-7
    • Pangeni R. Endobronchial tuberculosis with primary multi-drug resistance: An under-recognized entity in Nepal. Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 2019;15:100096
    • Pangeni, R. Rapid Diagnosis of Blood Stream Infections in ICU: Recent Advances. NepaleseMedical Journal, 2019, 2(1), 177-180.
    • Mohan A et al. Guidelines for diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults: Joint Indian Chest Society/National College of chest physicians (I)/Indian association for bronchology recommendations. Lung India. 2019 Jul 1;36(8):37.
    • Pisani L et al. Epidemiological Characteristics, Ventilator Management, and Clinical Outcome in Patients Receiving Invasive Ventilation in Intensive Care Units from 10 Asian Middle-Income Countries (PRoVENT-iMiC): An International, Multicenter, Prospective Study. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan 11;104(3):1022-33.
    • Pisani L et al. Epidemiological Characteristics, Ventilator Management, and Clinical Outcome in Patients Receiving Invasive Ventilation in Intensive Care Units from 10 Asian Middle-Income Countries (PRoVENT-iMiC): An International, Multicenter, Prospective Study. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan 11;104(3):1022-33.
    • Pangeni R. et al. Ruptured pulmonary hydatid cyst presenting as hemoptysis in TB endemic country: A case report. Ann Med Sur. 2022 Jun:78: 103836.
    • Khadka S, et al. Importance of clinical history in the diagnosis of psittacosis: A case report, Annals of Medicine and Surgery (2022).
    • Timilsina B et al. Multiple tracheobronchial diverticula in a post-TB patient: A case report. Authorea. August 19, 2022

  • Awards

    • ‘COVID-19 Distinguished Award’ by Barbara Foundation in recognition to the service provided as frontline health worker during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • Scholarship for training in diabetes management awarded by Health Exchange Nepal, UK (HeXN), April 2011
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