Dr Devikumar Acharya

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Devikumar Acharya at Spire include:

Respiratory medicine

• Asthma
  Spire Gatwick Park Hospital

• Lung tumours
• Obstructive sleep apnoea
• Persistent cough
• Pleural diseases
• Recurrent respiratory infections
• Type 2 respiratory failure
• Unexplained breathlessness

Dr Acharya is able to arrange the following tests for his patients:

• Abdomen and pelvis scans
• CT chest
• CT guided lung biopsy (done by Consultant Radiologist)
• Day case fibre-optic bronchoscopy and endobronchial lung biopsy
• Day case fibre-optic bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy
• Exhaled Nitric Oxide test
• Full lung function test
• Nocturnal bi-level CPAP titration (type 2 respiratory failure)
• Nocturnal cardio-respiratory assessment for sleep disordered breathing (suspected obstructive sleep apnoea)
• Nocturnal CPAP titration
• Pleural biopsy using Abrams needle
• Spirometry
• Under X-ray mobile image intensification
• US guided pleural aspiration (done by Consultant Radiologist)