Madhukar Pai, Prashant Yadav, Ravi Anupindi
Whether it is mobile phone service or vacation travel, good businesses know that success depends on providing a complete and customer-centric solution. Should patients with tuberculosis not be offered a complete solution that is patient-centred? After all, millions are affected1WHOGlobal tuberculosi...
Jeffrey D. Wall, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Ravi Gupta, Asif Rasheed et al.
The benefits of large-scale genetic studies for healthcare of the populations studied are well documented, but these genetic studies have traditionally ignored people from some parts of the world, such as South Asia. Here we describe whole genome sequence (WGS) data from 4806 individuals recruited f...
Lekha Puri, Collins Oghor, Claudia M. Denkinger, Madhukar Pai
Xpert MTB/RIF (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) is the biggest recent advance in tuberculosis diagnosis, and since 2010 more than 15 million cartridges have been procured through concessional pricing ($9·98 per cartridge in 2015).1WHOWHO monitoring of Xpert MTB/RIF roll-out.http://www.who.int/tb/laborat...
Abhigan Babu Shrestha, Sajina Shrestha, Prashant Yadav, Lukash Adhikari et al.
Introduction: Stevens Jonson syndrome, a type IV mediated hypersensitivity reaction is a rare mucocutaneous disorder accounting for <10% of TBSA. It affects skin, oral mucosa, eyes, esophagus, mouth, pharynx, larynx, skin and genitals. SJS is caused mainly due to drugs, infectious agents, immunizati...
Lucky Singh, Pankhuri Jain, Chandan Kumar, Ankur Singh et al.
OBJECTIVE: Tobacco use begins at an early age and typically leads to a long-term addiction. The age of initiation for tobacco use is not well studied in South Asia, where 22% of tobacco smokers and 81% of smokeless tobacco (SLT) users reside. METHODS: Data from the nationally representative Global A...
Ronak Jain, Yash Javeri, Prashant Nasa, Rahul Kashyap et al.
Introduction: In the absence of high-quality evidence for Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), supportive care is advocated during this pandemic. We aim to develop a consensus statement from global experts for pharmacological management, based on the pathophysiology of COVID-19. Material and Methods...
Prashant Yadav, Md Anwarul Bari, Sushmita Yadav, Amzad H. Khan
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is characterized by exuberant and dysregulated inflammatory responses to invading microorganisms. IRIS associated with tuberculosis (TB-IRIS) is widely known in HIV-positive patients after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) therap...
Hasan Masud, Prashant Yadav, Sushmita Yadav, Mohammed Kamal
INTRODUCTION: Giant cell tumor (GCT) is a benign bone tumor typically seen in epiphysis or metaphysis of mature long bones. Multiple large multinucleated giant cells dispersed among mononuclear spindle cells and monocytes constitute characteristic histological background of GCT of bone (GCTB). CASE ...
Seyed Ali Ahmadi, Yusuf A. Aina, Siti Aminah Anshah, Muhammad Mushahid Anwar et al.
Rajiv Kumar, Vijay Patil, Yasmin Abdul Rashid, Alfredo Addeo et al.
ABSTRACT The Excellence in Oncology Care (EIOC) 2023 Congress, held in Dubai as a hybrid event, brought together oncologists from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Two panels, comprising 33 experts, developed the first region-specific consensus guidelines to address critical issues in non...
Prashant Yadav, Aditya Kumar Gautam, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Adesh Kumar et al.
Background: The effectiveness of shorter regimen for the treatment of MDR-TB patients was found in the study done by Damien Foundation in Bangladesh, therefore we planned to study the profile MDR-TB patients who were taking shorter regimen so that various factors can be explored related to this regi...
Aju Mathew, Sissmol Davis, Jeffrey Mathew Boby, Anu R I et al.
PURPOSE: Accurate understanding of the genomic and transcriptomic data provided by next-generation sequencing (NGS) is essential for the effective utilization of precision oncology. Molecular tumor boards (MTBs) aim to translate the complex data in NGS reports into effective clinical interventions. ...
Hasan Muhammad Abdullah, Badre Alam, Sandip Maruti Anpat, Argyros Argyridis et al.
Bhawna Sirohi, Sissmol Davis, Anu R I, Moushumi Suryavanshi et al.
e15050 Background: Molecular tumour boards (MTB) facilitate discussions among medical professionals, scientists, bioinformaticians and geneticists for clinical application of precision oncology, via interpretation of various genomic sequencing studies, most commonly Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)....
Prashant Yadav, Md Anwarul Bari, Akash Saha, Sushmita Yadav et al.
Sheehan's syndrome is a well-recognized cause of panhypopituitarism secondary to pituitary apoplexy, followed by postpartum hemorrhage. Depending upon the degree of ischemic injury, it can be either partial or complete. Case presentation: We report an interesting case of a 35-year-old woman admitted...