Publications by authors named "I Bhatia"

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  • Leishmaniasis, transmitted by sand flies, is prevalent in Bihar, India, with three common forms: cutaneous, mucosal, and visceral, typically presenting as fever and enlarged organs.
  • A case of pyrexia of unknown origin revealed a patient with low CD4 counts (HIV-negative) who was diagnosed with co-infection of CMV and visceral leishmaniasis, despite lacking typical signs like hepatosplenomegaly.
  • Effective treatment with ganciclovir and amphotericin led to symptom resolution, highlighting the importance of recognizing rare presentations and co-infections in immunocompromised patients.
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  • Lung cancer has a high mortality rate, but early prediction can significantly reduce risks; current prediction methods face challenges like low accuracy and high false-positive rates.
  • This research introduces a novel algorithm that combines two deep neural networks (WDSI and SS-CL) to enhance early lung cancer detection using 3D CT scan images from the LUNA16 dataset.
  • The proposed lightweight model achieves impressive results with 98.2% accuracy, improved noise reduction, and efficiency metrics (32.8% PSNR and 0.97 SSIM), showing promise for better medical image analysis and patient outcomes.
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  • - The text discusses the rising prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), which has become the leading chronic liver disease globally among both children and adults, highlighting a lack of regional guidelines for its prevention and management in young populations.
  • - A consensus meeting was held in Mumbai on April 20, 2024, where national and international experts collaborated to develop recommendations for the diagnostic evaluation and management of pediatric MASLD, given the condition's significant burden and epidemiology.
  • - The recommendations suggest using the term MASLD instead of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), noting that the disease is particularly common among overweight Indian children and adolescents, and is often asymptomatic or shows mild symptoms,
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Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms (breathlessness, cough, and expectoration). In the advanced stages, patients often report to the Accident & Emergency department due to worsening of symptoms. Because of the repeated exposure to corticosteroids during the management of exacerbations, these patients are susceptible to super additional infections.

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Life and Death 2: The Brain was the first computerized neurosurgical simulator. It was developed as a commercial video game for a general audience. Despite this, it contains many valuable lessons for the simulation and education of nontechnical skills as well as being a historical landmark in the field of neurosurgery and medical simulation.

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