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    Vinay Vardhan Reddy Kandula, MD

    Medical Imaging
    (800) 416-4441
    Researcher Profile

    Primary Office

    Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803
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    Appointment: (800) 416-4441

    Other Offices

    Get to Know Me

    I grew up and attended medical school in India before moving to the U.S. My dad, an engineer, influenced my deep understanding that many people lack the advantages other people enjoy. It’s humbling to be able to positively impact the life of every child.

    Why I Treat Children

    Radiologists work with clinicians behind the scenes to help guide their decision-making and we don’t often meet patients personally. But we do get great personal satisfaction from our work. I once visited with an infant who had a rare condition I’d helped doctors diagnose. When the baby started crawling toward me, it was truly amazing and rewarding.

    What I'm Passionate About

    It’s heartbreaking to see handicapped children who can’t get the medical care they need. I feel strongly about caring for people who don’t have the economic resources to take care of themselves.

    Education & Training

    Fellowship

    • Pediatric Neuroradiology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2009
    • Pediatric Radiology - Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 2008

    Internship

    • Rotating - Kakatiya Medical College, 1996

    Residency

    • Radiology - University Hospitals of Leicester, 2007
    • Neonatology - Leicester General Hospital, 2003
    • Pediatrics - Sandwell - West Birmingham Hospital, 2002

    Medical/Dental School

    • MBBS - Kakatiya Medical College, 1996

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology

    Insurance Accepted

    • Accountable Health Plans PPO
    • Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
    • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
    • Aetna HMO
    • Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
    • Aetna PPO/EPO/POS
    • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
    • Alabama Medicaid/Patient First
    • AmeriGroup GA MCAID HMO JAX/GA
    • AmeriGroup GA PeachCare For Kids Jax/GA
    • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
    • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware NJ
    • AmeriHealth Caritas Florida (FKA Prestige Health Choice)
    • AvMed
    • Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO
    • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Non HMO
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida Blue Select
    • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS Open Access
    • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS/EPO
    • Cigna & Great West PPO
    • Cigna & Great West PPO/EPO
    • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
    • Cigna/Great West PPO
    • Community Care Plan Medicaid
    • Delaware First Health
    • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
    • Delaware Medicare
    • Devon Health Services
    • Employers Health Network PPO
    • Evolutions Healthcare
    • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
    • First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
    • First Health/Affordable PPO
    • Florida Medicaid
    • Florida Medicare
    • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
    • Georgia Medicaid/Georgia Better Health/Peachcare
    • Global Medical Managment DE/PA
    • Global Medical Mangment NJ
    • Health First Health Plans
    • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
    • Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Delaware Traditional
    • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware HMO PPO POS EPO
    • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware Traditional
    • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delware HMO PPO POS EPO
    • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
    • Highmark PA CHIP & Commercial
    • Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield NJ HMO
    • Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield NJ PPO
    • Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NJ HMO
    • Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NJ PPO
    • HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
    • Humana HMO/POS
    • Humana PPO/EPO
    • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan HMO/PPO
    • Independence Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone HMO PPO
    • Insurance Administrators of America
    • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
    • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
    • Lifetrac Transplant
    • Maryland Medicaid
    • Molina Healthcare Medicaid
    • Multiplan PPO
    • New Jersey Medicaid
    • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
    • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO ORL
    • Pennsylvania Medicaid
    • Plan Vista/NPPN PPO
    • Preferred Healthcare PPO
    • Prime Health Services PPO Specialty Florida
    • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
    • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
    • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
    • Seminole Tribe of Florida
    • Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
    • Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
    • Star Healthcare Network
    • Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
    • Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
    • Three Rivers Provider Network
    • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services
    • United Healthcare Commercial Products
    • United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid HMO
    • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
    • UPMC MCAID/CHIP PA DE
    • UPMC Medicaid
    • US Family Health Plan
    • Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO
    • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

    Medical Interests

    • Congenital malformations
    • Fetal imaging
    • Pediatric neuroradiology

    • Kerner, D. M., Nikam, R., Kandula, V. V. R., & Averill, L. W. (2022). Pearls and Pitfalls in Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion-Weighted Imaging in Clinical Pediatric Imaging. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 19-30. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.003

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    • Leung, S. S., Donuru, A., Kandula, V., Parekh, M. R., & Saul, D. (2022). Multimodality Imaging of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Differential Diagnosis. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 61-72. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.007

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    • Leung, S. S., Donuru, A., Kandula, V., Parekh, M. R., & Saul, D. (2022). Multimodality Imaging of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Differential Diagnosis. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 61-72. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.007

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    • Kerner, D. M., Nikam, R., Kandula, V. V. R., & Averill, L. W. (2022). Pearls and Pitfalls in Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion-Weighted Imaging in Clinical Pediatric Imaging. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 19-30. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.003

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    • Donuru, A., Saul, D., Parekh, M., Kumaran, M., Kandula, V., & Kharouf, R. (2021). Gunshot-Related Pediatric Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysm. JACC: Case Reports, 3(1), 26-30. doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.10.013

    • Kerner, D. M., Nikam, R., Kandula, V. V. R., & Averill, L. W. (2022). Pearls and Pitfalls in Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion-Weighted Imaging in Clinical Pediatric Imaging. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 19-30. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.003

    • Leung, S. S., Donuru, A., Kandula, V., Parekh, M. R., & Saul, D. (2022). Multimodality Imaging of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Differential Diagnosis. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 61-72. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.007

    • Nikam, R. M., Kandula, V. V., Yue, X., Krishnan, V., Kumbhar, S. S., Averill, L. W., & Choudhary, A. K. (2021). Birth-related subdural hemorrhage: prevalence and imaging morphology. Pediatric Radiology, 51(6), 939-946. doi:10.1007/s00247-021-05060-5

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    • Nikam, R. M., Yue, X., Kandula, V. V., Paudyal, B., Langhans, S. A., Averill, L. W., & Choudhary, A. K. (2021). Unravelling neuroinflammation in abusive head trauma with radiotracer imaging. Pediatric Radiology, 51(6), 966-970. doi:10.1007/s00247-021-04995-z

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    • Jin, J., Kandula, V., & Miller, R. E. (2021). Monitoring retinal pathology and cerebral injury in sickle cell disease using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in pediatric patients. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 68(7). doi:10.1002/pbc.29028

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    • Yue, X., Nikam, R. M., Kecskemethy, H. H., Kandula, V. V. R., Falchek, S. J., Averill, L. W., & Langhans, S. A. (2021). Radiosynthesis of 1-(2-[18f]fluoroethyl)-l-tryptophan using a one-pot, two-step protocol. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2021(175). doi:10.3791/63025

    • Leung, S. S., Donuru, A., Kandula, V., Parekh, M. R., & Saul, D. (2022). Multimodality Imaging of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Differential Diagnosis. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 61-72. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.007

    • Kerner, D. M., Nikam, R., Kandula, V. V. R., & Averill, L. W. (2022). Pearls and Pitfalls in Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion-Weighted Imaging in Clinical Pediatric Imaging. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 43(1), 19-30. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2021.05.003

    • Walter, A. W., Kandula, V. V. R., & Shah, N. (2020). Larotrectinib imaging response in low-grade glioma. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 67(1). doi:10.1002/pbc.28002

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    • Yue, X., Xin, Y., Zhang, S., Nikam, R., Kandula, V., Choudhary, A. K., & Chugani, D. C. (2020). Automated production of 1-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tryptophan for imaging of tryptophan metabolism. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 156. doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.109022

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    • Hansberry, D. R., D'Angelo, M., Prabhu, A. V., White, Tilwa, S., Li, Z., & Kandula, V. (2020). Lemierre's syndrome: Acute oropharyngeal infection leading to septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein with pulmonary septic emboli. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, 19. doi:10.1016/j.inat.2019.100573

    • Donuru, A., Kandula, V., Oliver, E., & Saul, D. (2020). Generalized arterial calcification of infancy. Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, 2(4). doi:10.1148/ryct.2020190226

    • White, Hansberry, D. R., Prabhu, A. V., Agarwal, N., & Kandula, V. (2020). Grisel's syndrome: A rare cause of torticollis with subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint secondary to a retropharyngeal abscess. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, 22. doi:10.1016/j.inat.2020.100872

    • Song, J., Chow, H. M., Nikam, R., Kandula, V., Choudhary, A. K., & Li, H. (2019). Reproducibility of axonal water fraction derived from the spherical mean diffusion weighted signal. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 63, 49-54. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2019.08.024

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    • Abousamra, O., Kandula, V., Duker, A. L., Rogers, K. J., Bober, M. B., & Mackenzie, W. G. (2019). Cervical Spine Deformities in Children With Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 39(9), E680-E686. doi:10.1097/BPO.0000000000001014

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    • Li, H., Nikam, R., Kandula, V., Chow, H. M., & Choudhary, A. K. (2019). Comparison of NODDI and spherical mean signal for measuring intra-neurite volume fraction. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 57, 151-155. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2018.11.021

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    • Williams, K. B., Brigatti, K. W., Puffenberger, E. G., Gonzaga-Jauregui, C., Griffin, L. B., Martinez, E. D., & Strauss, K. A. (2019). Homozygosity for a mutation affecting the catalytic domain of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (YARS) causes multisystem disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 28(4), 525-538. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddy344

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    • Nikam, R. M., Gripp, K. W., Choudhary, A. K., & Kandula, V. (2018). Imaging phenotype of multiple mitochondrial dysfunction syndrome 2, a rare BOLA3-associated leukodystrophy. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 176(12), 2787-2790. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.40490

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    • Morlet, T., Pazuniak, M., O'Reilly, R. C., Kandula, V., & Choudhary, A. K. (2017). Cochlear Nerve Deficiency and Brain Abnormalities in Pediatric Patients. Otology and Neurotology, 38(3), 429-440. doi:10.1097/MAO.0000000000001308

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    • Averill, L. W., & Kandula, V. V. R. (2017). Utility of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI in Pediatric Neuroimaging: A Pictorial Essay. Current Radiology Reports, 5(8). doi:10.1007/s40134-017-0232-x

    • Gripp, K. W., Baker, L., Kandula, V., Piatt, J., Walter, A., Chen, Z., & Messiaen, L. (2017). Constitutional LZTR1 mutation presenting with a unilateral vestibular schwannoma in a teenager. Clinical Genetics, 92(5), 540-543. doi:10.1111/cge.13013

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    • Atsina, K.-B., Averill, L. W., & Kandula, V. V. R. (2017). Neuroimaging of Pediatric Metabolic Disorders with Emphasis on Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and MR Spectroscopy: A Pictorial Essay. Current Radiology Reports, 5(11). doi:10.1007/s40134-017-0251-7

    • Cox, M., Ahn, J., Kandula, V., & Piatt, J. (2017). Giant hypothalamic hamartoma. Applied Radiology, 46(5), 31A-31B. Opgehaal van https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020216121&partnerID=40&md5=f6837684e0948a7f9c0910b4303ecd33

    • Gripp, K. W., Baker, L., Kandula, V., Conard, K., Scavina, M., Napoli, J. A., & Keppler-Noreuil, K. M. (2016). Nephroblastomatosis or Wilms tumor in a fourth patient with a somatic PIK3CA mutation. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 170(10), 2559-2569. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.37758

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    • Akyol, Y., Kandula, V., & Choudhary, A. (2016). Syntelencephaly associated with cystic cochleovestibular malformations. Neurology, 86(2), 198-199. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000002269

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    • Averill, L. W., Kandula, V. V. R., Akyol, Y., & Epelman, M. (2015). Fetal Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings In Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection With Postnatal Imaging Correlation. Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 36(6), 476-486. doi:10.1053/j.sult.2015.04.001

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