Publications by authors named "Anuj Kumar Bhatnagar"
There is an increasing interest in procedures to improve skin quality in acne patients with a short downtime. Off late, carbon peel laser technique which uses topical carbon suspension combined with Q-switched Nd:YAG laser treatment has gained popularity. The main advantages of this procedure are easy to perform and it requires less than 30 minutes.
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- Tuberculosis (TB) control faces difficulties due to issues like poor medication adherence and resistance, prompting the need for research on predicting treatment outcomes and relapse based on patients' immune responses.
- The study involved comparing the immune profiles of newly diagnosed pulmonary TB patients and healthy individuals by measuring various serum cytokines/chemokines and cell surface markers.
- Results showed significant immune differences, particularly in natural killer T cells and regulatory T cells, suggesting that understanding these immune responses could help develop better TB prevention and treatment strategies.
Pleural Aspergillosis is a rare entity, with most of the cases occurring on a background of lung disease or surgery. We report a case of a 16-year-old boy who developed pleural Aspergillosis in the absence of any obvious pre-disposing factors. Patient presented with fever, dry cough and left sided chest discomfort of 6 weeks duration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The treatment for MDR TB is quite prolonged and associated with adverse effects and hence costly.
Aim: The aim of study was to study the side-effects of reserve line drugs developing in initial seven days of starting therapy, so as to weigh the need for admission for initiation of treatment against heavy economic burden by admission of huge number of MDR TB patients, and to identify the factors which may have an effect on the number of patients developing side-effects
Methods: All MDR TB patients (930) admitted during study period, who were initiated on Cat IV treatment for MDR TB under RNTCP were questioned daily for any side-effects throughout the day, during initial seven days of treatment.
Results: On day one, 342 (36.