Over the last 25 odd years of practice, he has accumulated a wealth of experience in the management of chest diseases and critical care problems. The busy clinical practice encompasses the entire range of pulmonology problems including support to busy Cardio – thoracic departments and also organ transplant programs. He has over two thousand fibreoptic bronchoscopy studies to his credit. Over the last 5 years he had done over 300 pediatric studies and has been doing lot of therapeutic studies including tracheal dilations and stent placements.

He has also being regularly doing diagnostic thoracoscopic studies for pleural diseases and lung biopsies. Apart from the diagnostic studies, he also does Pleurodesis for refractory cases of pleural effusions. He has over 200 cases to his credit.

He is also one of the few people offering pericardial window for malignant pericardial effusions. To complete the diagnostic facilities, He has also included offering Sleep Studies for obesity and sleep related disorders He has conducted Bronchoscopy work – shops in various cities of the country with attendees from all over.

He has also conducted Thoracoscopy Work-shops with live case demonstrations –again fro the first time.

He is a regular contributor to the local Pulmonology club and a founder member of Hyderabad chapter of Indian Chest Society.

He is a member and presently Governor (south) of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Indian Chest Society.

AKJ Chest Clinic - Centre for Interventional Pulmonolgy Hyderabad India.

AKJ Chest Clinic was established twenty years back with intention of providing a state –of- the art investigative tools in the field of Chest Medicine. This perhaps is the only center, which provides such investigations under one roof.

It is run by Dr. A JAYACHANDRA (Consultant Chest Physician Hyderabad), who is a pioneer in interventional procedures in Hyderabad with over 27 years of experience in managing diseases of the chest. Coupled with the latest investigative tools, this centre has become one of the reputed centres for diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases.

The Clinic is well equipped and offers following Facilities:

Special Procedures in Bronchoscopy like:

Sleep Lab Includes- Complete Polysomnography, CPAP Titration, Split Night Study & Nap Study. (Evaluation of Sleep & Obesity related disorders).