Publications by authors named "Ballamudi Srinivas Rao"

A 70-year-old woman presented with burning pain and swelling over dorsum of right hand and small joints of the fingers, associated with redness, feeling of warmth, and stiffness of the fingers, with inability to bend the fingers since 2 months. The symptoms were progressively increasing in intensity for the past 1 month. There was no history of fever or trauma to the hand.

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  • Artemisinins are at risk of supply disruptions due to climate change, leading to the development of a new synthetic antimalarial combination known as arterolane maleate (AM) with piperaquine phosphate (PQP) for treating uncomplicated malaria.
  • In a clinical trial with 1072 patients, AM-PQP was found to have a high efficacy rate, with 90.48% showing adequate clinical and parasitological response at day 42, comparable to artemether-lumefantrine (A-L) which had a similar success rate.
  • The study concluded that AM-PQP is as effective and safe as A-L in treating uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria, demonstrating quick parasite clearance and minimal
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