Inavolu Pradev MD

Consultant gastroenterologist@Asian Institute of gastroenterology

[Anand V Kulkarni @AnandVKulkarni2]

Is HDV common in Asia? India-1% , Asia ~2%.
Do we need the Bulvirtide ? Yes

The prevalence of HDV among patients chronic HBV in is low but not insignificant.
✅Risk of rapid disease progression with HDV
✅Targeted HDV screening

India is a major hub for medical tourism.
✅The drug must be made available in India.

@INASL_Liver @Hep_Alliance @ajay_duseja

#liverx

https://t.co/2bCoXVhV0J

[FREEndoscopy @FREEndoscopy]

It’s Today!
August 30, 2025
1830hrs IST / 0900hrs EST
Register at -
https://t.co/JKQUcaV8AU.
Registration is free and mandatory!
@ShivangiKMD @ZaheerNabi8 #sachin_wani #mathew_philip @Tkothari13 @amolbapaye

[Anand V Kulkarni @AnandVKulkarni2]

Join us for the 2nd edition of AIG Liver Conclave on 26th and 27th September at Hyderabad . @MajaThiele @gvraoaig @ebtapper @JasmohanBajaj @ArunJSanyalVCU @ProfPaoloAngeli @ajay_duseja @DrMarkMuthiah @KailashKolhe @RoyAHep @drnipunverma @INASL_Liver @VCU_Liver #liverx

[Steven Bollipo @stevenbollipo]

One of the top abstracts at the Presidential Plenary #esgedays2025 @drhrr Dr Rughwani from @AIGHospitals
Great poetry in the take home message slide!
Urgent ERCP? Don’t rush!! Great study to show that it is ok to wait.

[Anand V Kulkarni @AnandVKulkarni2]

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." – Albert Einstein
After five decades, steroid dosing in AAH is revisited: Tapered prednisolone proves superior in reducing infections.
#STASH trial now @AmJGastro https://t.co/OWOpYHuJzI
@JasmohanBajaj @MLongMD @karanbjmc93 @juanpabloarab @giri_gutnliver @docMPK @JWatch @emadelomar @rabataller @AleksanderKrag @ruben_hernaez @ebtapper #LiverX

[Livia Archibugi @ArchibugiLivia]

What an incredible training at @AIGHospitals! I’m incredibly grateful to Dr.Reddy & @DrLakhtakia for teachings on Therapeutic EUS. Looking forward to applying everything I’ve learned in my practice!
A big 🙏 to Prof.Arcidiacono @OsrEcoendo & @ESGE_news for the Fellowship grant!

[AIG Hospitals @AIGHospitals]

Congratulations @drhrr for such an impactful work

[Inavolu Pradev MD @pradev32]

@drhrr @miNitinjagtap @AIGHospitals @Gut_BMJ @RakeshKalapala1 @DrLakhtakia @drmohanjr @DrAnudeepKV1 @MadhavDesaiGI @AnandVKulkarni2 Great work from the master🙏

[Hardik Rughwani @drhrr]

Yes, Healthcare 🚑💉 too contributes to Climate change!

Our Original Study @AIGHospitals, published in @Gut_BMJ, explores this: ➡️ showing key differences b/w India 🇮🇳 & the West.

Happy to share the article and a Message, humbly realised during the research! 🙂
👉https://t.co/b3zi6ImwiC

Let's protect our planet 🌎and be a 'Global citizen'!!

@narendramodi @PMOIndia @AmitShah @JPNadda @manisha_vakil @MOHFW @moefcc @ESGE_news @ASGEendoscopy @BritSocGastro @timesofindia @IndianExpress @htTweets @SrBachchan @sachin_rt @anandmahindra @BillGates @FarOutAkhtar @coldplay @drkeithsiau @DeMadaria @stevenbollipo @gautam_adani @WHO @WorldBank @WWF @Greenpeace @UNFCCC @UN_SDG @WBG_Climate @theCCCuk @DharJahnvi @gvraoaig

#Sustainability #climatechange #carbonfootprint #sustainablehealthcare

[AIG Hospitals @AIGHospitals]

We're excited to introduce MIRA, the AI-based Medical Information Robot at AIG Hospital, during AIG LIVE 2024.

MIRA will be interacting with delegates, providing expert insights, and enhancing the learning experience like never before! Get ready to meet the future of medical technology and innovation!

#MIRA #AIGLIVE2024 #Gastroenterology #Endoscopy #MedicalRobotics #InnovationInHealthcare

[Inavolu Pradev MD @pradev32]

State of art lectures @ AIG Live 2024

[Inavolu Pradev MD @pradev32]

State of art lectures @AIG live 2024

[Inavolu Pradev MD @pradev32]

State of art lectures@ AIG live 2024

[Inavolu Pradev MD @pradev32]

AIG Live 2024 is going to be a great extravagant event in the field of GI endoscopy. Pls make your plans to attend this grand event at Hyderabad September 19-21. ⁦@AIGHospitals⁩ ⁦#aiglive2024

[Zaheer Nabi @ZaheerNabi8]

Congratulations to Team AIG and Amol Bapaye sir (Team DMH) for publishing Indian Data on Colorectal ESD

[AIG Hospitals @AIGHospitals]

The countdown for the biggest LIVE GI Endoscopy Workshop, #AIGLIVE2024 has begun. Presenting the state-of-the-art lectures featuring some of the stalwarts of #GIEndoscopy, #GuidoCostamagna, #HorstNeuhaus, and #JacquesDevière who will be unfolding the best practice strategies for #ERCP. Mark your calendars. 19-21 September, HICC, Novotel, Hyderabad. Click https://t.co/9OgGnLKALD to download the brochure and register today! #AIGHospitals #BiliaryStrictures #Cholangio-pancreatoscopy #HilarStrictures

[gastrodoc @AnilcheswinK]

Dr Nageshwar Reddy sir , who took Therapeutic gastroenterology to sky high in India 🇮🇳 .

Great talk on AI in gastroenterology.

@AIGHospitals
@amolbapaye sir
#1InternationalConferenceandHandsonWorkshoponThirdSpaceEndoscopy.

[Dr G V Rao @gvraoaig]

Stellar line up of International Faculty known for the #Pancreas2024, the annual meeting of the Indian Pancreas Club hosted by AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad.

#CAPancreas #Pancreatitis #IPC #AIGHospitals

[Charlie Lees @charlie_lees]

When a Billion People Change: IBD and India's Rapid Transformation

Reflections from 72 hours in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad is some city - 7 million people, crazy traffic, raw energy, huge growth, big tech sector, high-tech hospitals, rapidly shifting environment, but marked inequality. The people are incredibly kind, humble, and hospitable, and they work very hard.

It's hard to imagine how more than a billion people fit in just one country. Somehow it makes more sense in the landmass of China. But in India, it really has to be seen to be believed.

It's perhaps even harder to comprehend what happens when a billion people undergo rapid environmental and societal change.

I spoke to clinicians, researchers, coordinators, waiters, drivers, and porters; to people who have lived their whole lives in Hyderabad, to those who have lived and worked abroad for a period and returned, and to those who do outreach work in the villages.

These first-hand accounts tell a remarkable story of transformation.

Everyone now has a smartphone with internet access. This opens vast possibilities, accelerating growth especially with e-commerce and the booming tech sector. But it changes everything, from the philosophies and aspirations of young people to family structure and dietary patterns.

Family structure is changing fast.

Extended families sharing communal home-cooked meals are being replaced by nuclear families where both parents work and food is delivered via an app. Young people are marrying much later or not at all, and the birth rate is declining.

Hyderabad is now the IT capital of India, eclipsing Bangalore where the city's infrastructure is struggling to catch up to the past decades' growth. It's an attractive destination for many who have migrated here from nearby villages and further afield, drawn to the job market and an increasingly westernised lifestyle.

This is really the epitome of urbanisation, the key epidemiological signal when one looks at the shifts in IBD incidence in newly industrialised countries.

Rates of infectious illness are declining, while non-communicable chronic illnesses – obesity and associated cardio-metabolic diseases and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases – are rising.

There is undoubtedly a seismic shift in habitual diet underlying at least some of these changes. Meat consumption has soared; this is reflected in data showing an association with ulcerative colitis susceptibility.

But recent focus has been on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), now ubiquitous across the world, driving not just increased calorie consumption, but also changes in our gut microbiota and inflammation. UPF consumption has been associated with Crohn's disease risk in several North American and European cohorts.

In rural settings, there are changes too.

Sanitation is vastly improved, and antibiotics are widely available. This is largely a success story – diarrhoeal deaths in young children across the world have fallen substantially in the past 3 decades.

That may be where the good news stops. Village shops now sell more UPFs than traditional foods. Increasing numbers of people live with overweight and obesity. And the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease is, by some estimates, already similar to that in comparable urban settings.

So what does the future hold?

There will be major infrastructure, economic, and healthcare challenges to satisfy the demands of a people hungry for change. How do you feed a billion people without UPFs? How do you ensure that the very poorest aren't left behind, even once you have lifted them from extreme poverty?

But there are enormous possibilities too.

India is well-poised to reap the harvest from the technological revolution, with a motivated workforce adopting mobile technology, universal internet connectivity via low-earth orbit satellite constellations, and artificial intelligence.

Demographic and environmental change, climate, and geopolitics can all be observed through the lens of inflammatory bowel disease.

IBD does not respect age, gender, ethnicity, or social status, and increasingly the same can be said for geography. At the end of the day, there is a human being living with an intrusive and debilitating chronic illness and clinicians doing their best to care for them. It matters not what your political or cultural beliefs are.

Everyone deserves the same high-quality, compassionate care.

And so we should raise awareness, improve standards, and double down on our efforts to understand the true nature of these illnesses, so we can start the hard work towards prevention and cure.

[Sundeep Lakhtakia @DrLakhtakia]

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants”.
That’s Nagi (Dr DN REDDY) the giant of Endoscopy World.