Dr. Sheetal Chaurasia

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia is a pulmonologist with 21 years of clinical experience currently consulting at Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Bengaluru. She is a Gold Medallist in MBBS and a University Topper in postgraduation.

She holds an MRCP (UK), FRCP (London), and a European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine, along with interventional pulmonology fellowship training from Malaysia and Germany.

Whether a patient is dealing with chronic cough, asthma, COPD, a suspected lung infection, sleep apnoea, or needs advanced bronchoscopic evaluation, Dr Sheetal Chaurasia provides thorough assessment and evidence-based respiratory care.

Her clinical practice covers COPD, bronchial asthma, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, sleep disorders, pulmonary vascular diseases, interventional bronchoscopy, and respiratory infections.

She is fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi.

Specialty Areas and Treatments

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia offers comprehensive pulmonary medicine care spanning diagnostic, interventional, and therapeutic respiratory services with training from leading Indian and international centres.

COPD and Bronchial Asthma

Patients with chronic obstructive lung conditions or asthma receive structured long-term management and monitoring.

• COPD diagnosis, staging, and long-term management
• COPD-related fatigue assessment and management
• Bronchial Asthma evaluation and treatment
• Pulmonary Function Testing
• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
• Smoking Cessation counselling and support

Interventional Pulmonology and Bronchoscopy

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia performs advanced bronchoscopic procedures for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, with specialised EBUS training from Amsterdam and Heidelberg.

• Video Bronchoscopy (diagnostic and therapeutic)
• Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) for mediastinal lymph node sampling and staging
• Thoracoscopy
• Indwelling Pleural Catheter (IPC) Placement
• Cryotherapy applications
• Foreign Body Removal from airways

Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)

Patients with complex or rare lung conditions affecting the lung tissue receive detailed diagnostic workup and long-term care.

• Interstitial Lung Disease evaluation and management
• Interstitial Pneumonia with Autoimmune Features (IPAF) assessment
• Diffuse Alveolar Haemorrhage management
• Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis care

Sleep Disorders

Patients with snoring, daytime sleepiness, or suspected sleep apnoea receive structured sleep assessment and management.

• Obstructive Sleep Apnoea evaluation and treatment
• Sleep Study (Polysomnography) interpretation
• Sleep-Disordered Breathing management

Lung Cancer and Pleural Disorders

• Lung Cancer evaluation and staging
• Primary and metastatic pulmonary malignancy management
• Pleural Effusion assessment and drainage
• Pleural disease evaluation

Pulmonary Vascular Diseases

• Pulmonary Hypertension evaluation and management
• Pulmonary Embolism diagnosis and treatment

Respiratory Infections

• Tuberculosis management including drug-resistant TB
• COVID-19 management and post-COVID respiratory care
• Respiratory infections including H1N1 and Influenza
• Bronchiectasis evaluation and long-term management

Respiratory Failure and Critical Care Pulmonology

• Acute and Chronic Respiratory Failure management
• Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) and invasive mechanical ventilation
• Home ventilator support for advanced neuromuscular disorders
• ICU respiratory care

Occupational Lung Disorders

• Occupational lung disease evaluation and management

Adult Vaccination

• Adult vaccination guidance and counselling

Credentials and Trust

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia brings over two decades of clinical experience with an exceptional academic record and diverse international training across Europe and Asia.

• MBBS (Gold Medallist), University of Ranchi (2005)
• DTCD (Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases), Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (2009)
• MD (Pulmonary Medicine, University Topper), B J Medical College, Ahmedabad (2013)
• DNB (Pulmonology), National Board of Examinations, New Delhi (2015)
• MRCP (UK), Royal College of Physicians
• FRCP (London), Royal College of Physicians
• European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine (EDARM), London (2016)
• Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship training from Malaysia and Thorax Clinic, Heidelberg, Germany
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease Course, Lausanne, Switzerland (ERS Scholarship, 2020)

She received the Best Abstract Award in COPD at the ERS International Congress in Munich (2014), the Second Prize in Oral Presentation at Karnataka State Conference PULMOKARN (2017), and has been invited as Chairperson at the Indo-US Critical Care Conference (2017, 2018, 2019).

She received felicitation from the Government of Karnataka for supporting rural hospitals and PHCs through e-rounds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She serves as a reviewer for the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and BMC Pulmonary Medicine, and as an EBAP reviewer for accrediting pulmonology academic events in Europe.

She is registered with the Karnataka Medical Council (Registration No. 88323, 2010).

Professional Memberships

• European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• American Thoracic Society (ATS)
• Indian Chest Society (ICS)

Hospital Affiliations

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia currently consults at Manipal Hospital, Whitefield, Bengaluru. Her consultation fee is ₹850.

About Hospital Manipal Hospitals

Manipal Hospitals is one of India's largest multispecialty healthcare networks, headquartered in Bengaluru.

The group operates across multiple cities including Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Pune, Goa, Jaipur, Mysuru, Mangaluru, and others. Manipal Hospitals offers advanced care across departments including pulmonology, oncology, cardiology, neurology, organ transplantation, orthopaedics, and more.

The hospitals are accredited by NABL and NABH and are known for tertiary-level clinical infrastructure, multidisciplinary specialist teams, and a strong focus on research and academic medicine.

Research and Academic Contributions

Dr Sheetal Chaurasia has an extensive publication and presentation record across international and national pulmonology forums.

Key Publications

• Long-Standing Undiagnosed Foreign Body Aspiration with Concomitant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Man (Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2023)
• Tracheobronchopathia Osteochondroplastica: A Rare Case of Misdiagnosis and Difficult Intubation (JRCPE, 2022)
• Diffuse Alveolar Haemorrhage Secondary to Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (Journal of the Association of Chest Physicians, 2022)
• Predictors of COPD-Related Fatigue and Correlation with Established Outcome Parameters (Nigerian Medical Journal, 2022)
• Clinical, Radiological, and Laboratory Profile of Patients with Interstitial Pneumonitis with Autoimmune Features from India (Cureus, 2021)
• Association Between Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis and Quality of Life (Cureus, 2021)
• Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis after COVID-19 (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021)
• Quantitative Assessment of Respiratory Distress Using Convolutional Neural Network (Computing in Cardiology, 2020)
• Arterial Thrombosis and Recurrent CVA in ICU: Presentation of an Occult Malignancy (Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2020)
• Rare Congenital Cardiac Anomaly Presenting with Predominant Respiratory Complaint (International Journal of Case Reports and Images, 2015)

Conference Presentations

• Poster on COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Cavitary Lesion at ERS International Conference, Barcelona (2022)
• Invited case presentation on Pulmonary Vascular Disorder at Lausanne, Switzerland (2020)
• Poster on Quality of Life in Bronchiectasis at ERS International Congress, Milan (2017)
• Poster on Interstitial Pneumonia with Autoimmune Features at ERS International Congress, Milan (2017)
• Poster on COPD-Related Fatigue at ERS International Congress, London (2016)
• Oral paper on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test at ERS International Congress, Munich (2014, Best Abstract Award winner)
• Conducted workshop on Bronchoscopy in the ICU at Global Intensive Care Symposium, Bangalore (2022)

Media Features

• Featured in Hindustan Times, News9, India Times, Happiest Health, and Healthcare Radius on topics including air pollution and lung health, sleep disorders, COVID-19 management, firecracker-related lung damage, and breathing exercises

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