About:
Dr Arun Kumar Reddy Gorla is one of the top Nuclear Medicine Experts in India. He has over 10 years of experience in Nuclear Medicine. He is working as a Consultant Nuclear Medicine at the Citizens Specialty Hospital, Hyderabad.
Qualifications:
- MBBS - Kurnool Medical College, Andhra Pradesh (2009)
- MD (Nuclear Medicine Residency) - Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh (2014)
Areas of Expertise:
- Whole body PET/CT Studies
- Gamma Camera Imaging Studies
- Radionuclide Cardiac Imaging Studies
- Percutaneous Biopsy Procedures (PET/CT Biopsy under automated robotic arm guidance)
- Radionuclide Therapeutic Procedures
- Image Guided Intervention
- Multimodality hybrid oncology imaging with PET/CT and PET/MR
- Novel image processing techniques incl. quantitative imaging
Awards & Achievements:
- Awarded Silver medal (Merit of FIRST ORDER) for overall performance during Nuclear Medicine Residency at the 34th convocation of PGIMER
- Secured 28th Rank in the National wide Entrance Examination in post-graduation at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh; a premier national institute ranked as the second best for postgraduate education in India
- Awarded 'Research Travel Grant' for attending an international conference (IPET-2015)
- Selected for research work on a presentation in the highlights lecture at SNM-2015
Publications:
- Gorla AKR, Sood A, Mittal BR. Is there a role of Choline PET/CT in primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism? Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2016; 37: 672. Pubmed ID: 27105441
- Gorla AKR, Sood A, Prakash G, Parmar M, Mittal BR. A significant increase in myocardial FDG uptake on interim PET/CT may be an early sign of adriamycin-induced cardiotoxicity. Clinical Nuclear Medicine; 2016; 41: 462-3. Pubmed ID: 26909713
- Gorla AKR, Gupta K, Sood A, Biswal CK, Bhansali A, Mittal BR. Adrenal tuberculosis masquerading as disseminated malignancy: A pitfall of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging; Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular; 2016; 35: 257-9. Pubmed ID: 26853-485
- Gorla AKR, Mittal BR, Bhattacharya A, Malhotra P, Varma S. Heterogenous marrow uptake on FDG PET/CT is not always a sign of lymphomatous involvement. World Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2016; 15; 58-61. PMC ID: PMC4729018
- Sampath S, Gorla AKR, Bhattacharya A, Varma SC, Mittal BR. Contrast-enhanced fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/contrast-enhanced computed tomography in mediastinal T-cell lymphoma with superior vena cava syndrome. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2016; 31; 79-80. Pubmed ID: 26917907
- Gorla AKR, Agrawal K, Sood A, Bhattacharya A, Mittal BR. Differential uptake of Tc 99mDMSA and Tc-99m EC in renal tubular disorders: Report of two cases and review of the literature. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2014; 29: 160-2. Pubmed ID: 25210282
- Gorla AKR, Santhosh S, Mittal BR, Bhattacharya A. Sharma SC. Isolated cerebellar hypermetabolism on FDG PET in a case of remitted primary breast lymphoma. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2014; 29: 55-6. Pubmed ID: 24591788
- Renjith KR, Sood A, Sharma A, Saikia U, Gorla AKR, Mittal BR. F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging and PET-guided biopsy in evaluation and treatment decision in adrenal histoplasmosis. British Journal of Radiology Case Reports 2016; 2.
- Gorla AKR, Kumar R, Lileshwar K, Bal A, Shukla J, Mittal BR. 68Ga- DOTATATE PET/CT in a case of primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumor. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2017; 42: 118-20. Pubmed ID: 28005645.
- Sharma A, Mete UK, Sood A, Kakkar N, Gorla AKR, Mittal BR. Utility of semiquantitative parameters derived from early dynamic (edPET) and delayed post-diuretic 18F-FDG PET/CT (dpdPET) in predicting tumor grade and T- stage of urinary bladder carcinoma: Results from a prospective single-center study. British Journal of Radiology 2017; 90. Pubmed ID: 28256904.
- Vadi SK, Chouhan DK, Gorla AKR, Shukla J. Sood A, Mittal BR. Potential adjunctive role of radio synovectomy in primary synovial osteochondromatosis of the knee: A case report Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
- Rayamajhi SJ, Gorla AKR, Kumar R. Sood A, Mittal BR. Unsuspected active ulcerative colitis in a patient with dermatomyositis: Rare association detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT during the search for occult malignancy. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2017; 32: 130-2. Pubmed ID: 28533643
