Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj K. Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009. With international groups volunteering to join, the “APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)” was formed in...
Ashok Kumar, Kartik Dhar, Shamsher S. Kanwar, Pankaj Kumar Arora
Lipases are industrial biocatalysts, which are involved in several novel reactions, occurring in aqueous medium as well as non-aqueous medium. Furthermore, they are well-known for their remarkable ability to carry out a wide variety of chemo-, regio- and enantio-selective transformations. Lipases ha...
Raj Kumar Singh, Kuldeep Dhama, Sandip Chakraborty, Ruchi Tiwari et al.
Nipah (Nee-pa) viral disease is a zoonotic infection caused by Nipah virus (NiV), a paramyxovirus belonging to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae. It is a biosafety level-4 pathogen, which is transmitted by specific types of fruit bats, mainly Pteropus spp. which are natural reservo...
Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, George Lau, Ming‐Hua Zheng et al.
Background and aims COVID-19 is a dominant pulmonary disease, with multisystem involvement, depending upon comorbidities. Its profile in patients with pre-existing chronic liver disease (CLD) is largely unknown. We studied the liver injury patterns of SARS-Cov-2 in CLD patients, with or without cirr...
Ashok Kumar, B. R. Maurya, Richa Raghuwanshi, Vijay Singh Meena et al.
APASL ACLF Working Party, Ashok Choudhury, Ankur Jindal, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
Background and aims Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a progressive disease associated with rapid clinical worsening and high mortality. Early prediction of mortality and intervention can improve patient outcomes. We aimed to develop a dynamic prognostic model and compare it with the existing...
Manisha Thakur, Mahesh Rachamalla, Som Niyogi, Ashok Kumar Datusalia et al.
Arsenic is a key environmental toxicant having significant impacts on human health. Millions of people in developing countries such as Bangladesh, Mexico, Taiwan, and India are affected by arsenic contamination through groundwater. Environmental contamination of arsenic leads to leads to various typ...
Anthony Costello, Ashok Kumar, Vidhya S. Narayan, Mamoon Akbar et al.
Serum immunoglobulin (Ig) G responses to a variety of mycobacterial antigens were measured in children from the UK, in children with tuberculosis from Hyderabad, India and Dhaka, Bangladesh, classified according to whether the disease was disseminated or localized, and in non-tuberculous controls. A...
Mohammed Eslam, Jian‐Gao Fan, Ming‐Lung Yu, Vincent Wai‐Sun Wong et al.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) affects over one-fourth of the global adult population and is the leading cause of liver disease worldwide. To address this, the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) has created clinical practice guidelines focused ...
Nipu Kumar Das, Joyprokash Chakrabartty, Mrinmoy Dey, Ashoke Kumar Sen Gupta et al.
Electric power consumption in KWh Per capita is a key factor in determining the progress of technological growth and the socio-economic development of any country. Bangladesh is a lower middle-income country, and its population density is around 1118 per square kilometer. The vision of the country i...
Atiqur Rahman Sunny, Sharif Ahmed Sazzad, Shamsul H. Prodhan, Md. Ashrafuzzaman et al.
COVID-19 is now a major global health crisis, can lead to severe food crisis unless proper measures are taken. Though a number of scientific studies have addressed the possible impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh on variety of issues, problems and food crises associated with aquatic resources and comm...
Davidson H. Hamer, Gary L. Darmstadt, John B. Carlin, Anita K. M. Zaidi et al.
BACKGROUND: Neonatal illness is a leading cause of death worldwide; sepsis is one of the main contributors. The etiologies of community-acquired neonatal bacteremia in developing countries have not been well characterized. METHODS: Infants <2 months of age brought with illness to selected health fac...
Ashok Choudhury, Manoj Kumar, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is an early marker of sepsis and ongoing inflammation and has been reported in large proportion of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) patients. Whether sepsis is the cause or the result of liver failure is unclear and is vital to ...
Harshad Devarbhavi, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
OBJECTIVES: Acute insults from viruses, infections, or alcohol are established causes of decompensation leading to acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). Information regarding drugs as triggers of ACLF is lacking. We examined data regarding drugs producing ACLF and analyzed clinical features, labora...
Davidson H. Hamer, Gary L. Darmstadt, John B. Carlin, Anita Zaidi et al.
Neonatal illness is a leading cause of death worldwide; sepsis is one of the main contributors. The etiologies of community-acquired neonatal bacteremia in developing countries have not been well characterized.