Publications by authors named "Divya Kalikavil Puthenveedu"
Background And Objectives: Pain is an important non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is often under-recognized. Pain is also a symptom frequently reported by non-PD elderly subjects. The King's Parkinson's Disease Pain Scale (KPPS) is a valid tool to characterize and quantify pain in PD and has been translated into several languages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We examined whether mean magnetic susceptibility values from deep gray matter structures in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) differed from those in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and healthy volunteers, and correlated with the PSP rating scale.
Methods: Head of caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus, substantia nigra and red nucleus were the regions of interest. Mean susceptibility values from these regions in PSP patients were estimated using quantitative susceptibility mapping.
Background: Genetic variability in LRRK2 has been unequivocally established as a major risk factor for familial and sporadic forms of PD in ethnically diverse populations.
Objectives: To resolve the role of LRRK2 in the Indian population.
Methods: We performed targeted resequencing of the LRRK2 locus in 288 cases and 298 controls and resolved the haplotypic structure of LRRK2 in a combined cohort of 800 cases and 402 controls in the Indian population.
Risk of Stroke and Cardiac Events in Medically Treated Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
September 2015
Background: The risk of stroke in patients with 50% or more asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS) on intensive medical treatment is low. Hence, the optimal treatment of ACS remains controversial at this point of time.
Aim: We assessed the risk of stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) and cardiac events in patients with 50% or more ACS on intensive medical treatment.