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Patient education, procedure explainers, and clinical thinking from Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara's practice in lung transplantation, ECMO and interventional pulmonology at KIMS Hospital, Electronic City.
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Patient education Most post-COVID lung damage gets better on its own. Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara on the tests that matter, the drugs that mostly do not, and when it becomes a transplant conversation.
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Patient education How Indian families actually pay for a lung transplant - insurance, EMI, personal loans, healthcare financing, CSR and crowdfunding. Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara's clinician-written playbook covering every source and how to sequence them.
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Patient education What life actually looks like after a lung transplant - the first hospital week, how your new lungs work, recovery milestones, warning signs, long-term outlook with ISHLT survival data and CLAD monitoring. Clinician-written by Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara.
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Patient education The Rs. 36 lakh KIMS Electronic City package, itemised inclusions and exclusions, ECMO and aviation add-ons, insurance + financing - a clinician's honest breakdown of what a lung transplant actually costs in India.
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Patient education A clinician-written referral guide to lung transplant candidacy in India - disease-by-disease triggers, BODE score for COPD, GAP index for IPF, when to refer, contraindications. Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara, KIMS Electronic City.
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Critical care ECMO buys time. A transplant pulmonologist on the two clinical scenarios that use the same machine differently: bridge to recovery vs bridge to transplant. EOLIA trial data, ELSO outcomes, awake ambulatory protocols.
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Interventional pulmonology A transplant pulmonologist's guide to airway complications after lung transplant - stenosis, dehiscence, malacia, granulation - and the interventional pulmonology toolkit to manage them. Balloon dilatation vs cryotherapy vs stenting.
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