About Doctor
Dr. Maheshwari is nationally as well as an internationally reputed urologist with rich experience in upper tract endourology, Lithotripsy, laser surgeries. He was the first Urologist in India to be trained in the use of Holmium Laser for Urinary stone and Prostate management.
He has performed over a thousand percutaneous nephrolithotomy, fifteen hundred ureteroscopy and a large number of lower tract endourological procedures. He was Involved in lithotripsy (ESWL) treatment of more than four thousand patients.
Areas Of Expertise
Pankaj Maheshwari has Completed MBBS from Grant Medical College in 1995, MS (Urology), DNB & M.Ch (Urology) and has expertise in Vasectomy, Cryotherapy, Cystoscopy, Circumcision, Lithotripsy, Spermicide, Urinalysis, Prostate Biopsy, Penile Implants, Hormone Therapy, Open Prostatectomy, Holmium Laser Surgery, Upper Tract Endourology, Abdominal Ultrasound, Intravenous Pyelogram, Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy, Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA), Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT), Transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP), Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) etc.
Experience
- Recipient of Societe Internationale Urology Traveling Fellowship for 1999– 2000, which he utilized for training in Holmium laser in Urology at New Zealand and at New York.
- Pioneer in the use of Holmium laser in urology in India. He started performing holmium laser enucleation of the prostate for management of Benign Enlargement of Prostate in late 1998.
- One of the initial persons to start therapeutic flexible ureteroscopy in India. Started in 1999. He has 50 national and international publications of which eight are quoted in Campbell’s textbook of Urology.
- Few unusual surgical procedures were done for the first time in India by Dr. Maheshwari.
- Laparoscopy-assisted PCNL for large calculi in the pelvic kidney (3 cases).
- Laparoscopic repair of spontaneous bladder perforation.
- He has devised a new technique for placement of CAPD catheter laparoscopically. This significantly reduces the complications of CAPD catheter. (> 100 cases)
Honors and Awards
Membership:
- He is the member of the Editorial committee of the Indian Journal of Urology. He is also a member of editorial review panel for many national and international journals.
- He is the Honorary Treasurer of the of the West Zone chapter of the Urology Society of India (2016-18). Before that he has served as a council member from 2014 to 2016.
- He was elected as a ‘Council Member’ of the Mumbai Urology Society for 03-05 and 14-15.
- He has trained over 50 urologists, surgeons and postgraduate students in Endourology and lithotripsy.
- Invited faculty to many National and international conferences and has delivered more than 200 talks.
Research and Publications:
He has authored three books in Urology.
- “Hand Book on DJ Stents”. This book was published during the West Zone annual conference at Mehsana.
- ‘Kidney se Parichay’ was written on the eve of the World Kidney Day to provide information to lay public about Kidney failure, stone disease and prostate enlargement.
- Introduction to Kidney diseases. This was compiled for lay public and released on 5th June, 2008.
