TAPS · Rayalaseema
Breathe better.
Live fuller.
Complete lung care under one roof in Tirupati and Chittoor. From a cough that will not settle to advanced airway procedures, sleep studies and respiratory intensive care.
- Allergic Asthma
- COPD & Smoking-related Lung Diseases
- Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
- Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
- Pneumonia & Complex Pneumonia
- Tuberculosis Management
- Lung Cancer Evaluation
- Sleep Apnea & Breathing Problems
- Interventional Pulmonology
- 2
- Branches
- 15+
- Years experience
- 2021
- Established
- Mon-Sat
- Consulting
Where to find us
Dr. K. Aneef Basha also visits AJ Ortho & Multi Speciality Hospital (Piler), Sri Sai Hospital (Palamaner), Prameela Nursing Home (Rayachoti) and Krishna Hospital (Rayachoti) on a fixed monthly schedule. See the dates
Our promise
Four things we commit to, every visit
Diagnose accurately
On-site PFT, imaging and allergy testing, so the diagnosis rests on measurement rather than assumption.
Treat effectively
Evidence-based protocols, from inhaler technique through to biologics and advanced airway procedures.
Breathe better
Rehabilitation, PAP therapy and long-term follow-up aimed at how you actually feel day to day.
Live healthier
Prevention, vaccination and cessation support, because the best outcome is the admission that never happens.
Our expertise
Complete lung care under one roof
Diagnosis, intervention, allergy, sleep and critical care, so most patients get an answer on the first visit instead of a list of places to go next.
General Pulmonology
Day-to-day chest medicine: the cough that will not settle, breathlessness that is getting worse, and long-term conditions that need a plan rather than a prescription.
Learn moreAllergy & Asthma
Finding out exactly what triggers your symptoms, then treating the cause rather than repeatedly treating the attack.
Learn moreCOPD & Smoking Cessation
COPD cannot be undone, but how fast it advances is very much open to change. We confirm the diagnosis properly, treat the breathlessness, and help you stop smoking, which is the one thing that alters the course of it at any stage.
Learn moreSleep & Breathing Disorders
Snoring, daytime exhaustion and disturbed nights are often a treatable breathing problem. We measure it properly before recommending anything.
Learn moreInterventional Pulmonology
Advanced keyhole airway and pleural procedures that reach a diagnosis quickly, and relieve obstruction without open surgery.
Learn moreRespiratory Critical Care
Ventilator and intensive respiratory care for patients who are acutely unwell, with the same team following them from ICU back to clinic.
Learn moreAdvanced Diagnostics
On-site testing, so most patients leave the first visit with an answer instead of a list of places to go next.
Learn moreSpecialised Lung Clinics
Dedicated clinics for conditions that need consistent, long-term follow-up by someone who knows the history.
Learn morePulmonary Rehabilitation & Support
Structured breathing and exercise training, home oxygen support and follow-up that continues after you leave the clinic.
Learn moreWhy it matters
Lung health, in four numbers
Breathing problems are among the things people live with longest before anyone puts a name to them. This is the scale of it.
3rd
leading cause of death
COPD kills more people worldwide than any condition except heart disease and stroke, and most of it is preventable.
WHO global health estimates, 2021262M
people live with asthma
Well controlled, asthma need not limit an ordinary life. Poorly controlled, it accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.
WHO, Global Burden of Disease 201999%
breathe air above WHO limits
Almost the entire world population lives with air that exceeds the WHO guideline for fine particles. Lungs are the organ that meets it first.
WHO air quality database, 2022936M
adults have sleep apnoea
Around one billion adults aged 30 to 69 are estimated to have obstructive sleep apnoea. The large majority have never been tested for it.
Benjafield et al., Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2019
pulmonology
Led by
Dr. K. Aneef Basha
MBBS, MD (Pulmonary Medicine), FIP (Pulmonary & Critical Care)
Interventional Pulmonologist & Sleep Medicine Specialist · Director & Chair
How breathing works
The journey of one breath
Nose to bloodstream in under a second, about twenty thousand times a day. Knowing the route makes it much easier to picture where a problem sits.
Nose and throat
Air is warmed, moistened and filtered before it goes any further. You do this about 20,000 times a day without once thinking about it.
Windpipe
Microscopic hairs beat upwards in a continuous escalator, carrying dust and mucus back out of the airway. Tobacco smoke paralyses them.
Bronchi
The airway divides again and again, roughly twenty-three times over, each branch narrower than the one before it.
Alveoli
Hundreds of millions of air sacs, so fine that laid out flat they would cover most of a tennis court.
Bloodstream
Oxygen crosses a membrane many times thinner than tissue paper, and a red cell is through and away in under a second.
Over a lifetime
Lung function peaks in your twenties
Everyone loses a little capacity each year from about thirty-five. In a susceptible smoker it goes several times faster — and stopping, at any age, bends the line back towards the ordinary one.
Illustrative, following the Fletcher–Peto model of lung function decline. It shows the shape of the thing, not measurements from any one person.
Air that exceeds WHO limits
Almost everybody alive breathes air dirtier than the WHO guideline for fine particles — traffic, cooking smoke, crop burning, dust. Lungs are the organ that meets all of it first.
WHO air quality database, 2022Why Samraksha
Specialist chest care, without the trip to a metro city
Advanced technology
EBUS, cryotherapy, airway stenting and a full PFT lab, available in Rayalaseema rather than a city away.
Evidence-based care
Current respiratory guidelines applied honestly, including when the right answer is to do less.
Patient-centric approach
Time to explain the diagnosis, the plan and the cost before anything is started.
Continuum of care
The same team from OPD to ICU and back, so nothing is lost in the handover.
When to get checked
Six signs worth measuring rather than guessing
None of these means something is seriously wrong. Each of them is a question that can be answered in a morning instead of carried around for a year.
A cough that outstays three weeks
Most coughs after a cold settle inside two to three weeks. One that carries on past that is worth a chest X-ray and a breathing test rather than another bottle of syrup.
Breathlessness at things that were easy
A flight of stairs, a walk to the shop, carrying the shopping in. People adapt to this so gradually that they only notice when someone points it out.
Wheeze or tightness at night
Asthma classically wakes people in the early hours or after exercise. A pattern that comes and goes is a clue, not a coincidence.
Blood in what you cough up
Worth having looked at the first time it happens rather than the third, even when there is a simple explanation for it.
Snoring with pauses, and no rest from sleep
Whoever shares the room usually notices the pauses before you notice the exhaustion. Both are measurable in a single night.
Symptoms that follow an exposure
Dust, smoke, paint, a pet, a workplace, a season. When symptoms track something you can name, testing can usually confirm it.
Stopping smoking
What changes, and how quickly
The lungs start repairing themselves within a day, and keep going for years. Nothing else available in respiratory medicine changes the outlook as much as this does.
Our smoking cessation clinic does the practical part: what to expect, what actually helps, and a review that continues past the first week.
WHO, health benefits of smoking cessation
Heart rate and blood pressure drop.
Carbon monoxide in the blood falls back to a normal level.
Circulation improves and lung function increases.
Coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
Risk of coronary heart disease is about half that of a smoker.
Risk of dying from lung cancer is about half that of a smoker.
Conditions
If breathing is the problem, start here
Not sure whether your symptoms need a specialist? Call us and we will tell you honestly, including when they do not.
- Asthma
- COPD / emphysema
- Allergic rhinitis
- Chronic cough
- Tuberculosis
- Drug-resistant TB
- Pneumonia
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Snoring
- Interstitial lung disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Pleural effusion
- Lung nodules & masses
- Lung cancer
- Chronic urticaria
- Breathlessness on exertion
- Post-COVID lung fibrosis
- Occupational lung disease
- Pulmonary hypertension
Questions
Asked before the first visit
The questions we are asked most often on the phone, answered the way we would answer them in the room.
Patient informationHow long should a cough last before I get it checked?
Around three weeks. Most coughs that follow a cold or flu settle within two to three weeks. A cough carrying on beyond that, or one with blood, weight loss, fever or breathlessness alongside it, should be examined - usually a chest X-ray and a spirometry test answer it on the same visit.
Can asthma be cured?
Asthma cannot be cured, but it can almost always be controlled. With the right inhaled treatment, correct inhaler technique and a written plan, most people with asthma have no symptoms at night, no limits on exercise and no need for a reliever more than occasionally.
Does snoring always mean sleep apnoea?
No. Snoring is common and often harmless. It matters when breathing repeatedly pauses during sleep, when mornings bring headaches or a dry throat, or when daytime sleepiness is affecting driving or work. A sleep study measures it directly instead of guessing from symptoms.
What happens at a first pulmonology visit?
A history and examination first, then whatever measurement the symptoms call for - spirometry, FeNO, a chest X-ray, allergy testing or an arterial blood gas. Because those are on site, most patients leave the first visit with a diagnosis and a plan rather than a list of places to go next.
Do I need a lung function test if I feel well?
Usually not. It is worth doing if you smoke or used to, if you have worked around dust, fumes or smoke, if breathlessness is creeping up on you, or before certain operations. Spirometry takes a few minutes and detects narrowing long before it is obvious to you.
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