Publications by authors named "A Jairam"
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- Calciphylaxis is a rare and severe condition that causes blood vessel calcification, leading to tissue death, often appearing in areas with more body fat like the abdomen and breasts.
- An elderly woman with end-stage kidney disease experienced severe breast pain and nodules, leading to a diagnosis of calciphylaxis through clinical assessments and imaging.
- After standard treatments failed, glucocorticoids were used effectively, showing significant improvement, but she experienced a relapse after three months, requiring treatment again.
Tacrolimus is the most important drug in current posttransplant immunosuppressive protocol. Salt-losing nephropathy causing symptomatic hyponatremia as an adverse effect of tacrolimus has been rarely reported. We report recurrent hyponatremia and graft dysfunction in a young renal transplant recipient, with no evidence of rejection, attributable to.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare costs for 2 days versus 5 days of postoperative antibiotics within the antibiotics after an aPPendectomy In Complex appendicitis trial.Background:Recent studies suggest that restrictive antibiotic use leads to a significant reduction in hospital stays without compromising patient safety. Its potential effect on societal costs remains underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lower extremity salvage in the setting of severe trauma requires the consideration of multiple surgical specialties and treatment algorithms. We hypothesized that time to first ambulation, ambulation without an assistive device, chronic osteomyelitis, and delayed amputation were not affected by the time to soft tissue coverage in Gustilo IIIB and IIIC fractures at our institution.
Methods: We evaluated all patients treated for open tibia fractures at our institution from 2007 to 2017.