Publications by authors named "J S Bajaj"

Introduction: Antibiotic overuse and subsequent antibiotic resistance lead to worse infection outcomes in cirrhosis. Secondary spontaneous bacterial peritonitis prophylaxis (SecSBBPr) is associated with higher SBP recurrence but impact on non-SBP infections is unclear.

Methods: We studied patients with cirrhosis and SBP who were given SecSBPPr or not between 2009-2019 in two complementary national cohorts [Veterans affairs corporate data warehouse (VA-CDW) and non-VA TriNetX].

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Neuroendoscopy can be learnt by assisting or doing live human surgery, cadaver dissection with or without augmented pulsatile vessel and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) perfusion, and practicing on live animal, dead animal model, synthetic models, three-dimensional printing model with or without augmentation with animal, cadaver tissue, pulsatile vessel and reconstructed CSF model, virtual reality (VR) simulator, and hybrid simulators (combined physical model and VR model). Neurosurgery skill laboratory with basic and advanced learning should be there in all teaching hospitals. Skills can be transferred from simulation model or VR to cadaver to live surgery.

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Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a condition associated with high mortality in the absence of liver transplantation. There have been various definitions proposed worldwide. The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set in 2004 on ACLF was published in 2009, and the "APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)" was formed in 2012.

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Background & Aims: Inappropriate treatment of infections fuels drug resistance, organ failures, and costs in cirrhosis. We explored proteomics to improve infection diagnosis and management in acutely decompensated (AD) cirrhosis.

Methods: We enrolled 391 patients with AD cirrhosis (92% males, median-age: 41 years), 84 in the discovery cohort (54 infected, 30 non-infected), 147 in the validation cohort I (106 infected, 41 non-infected), and 160 in the validation cohort II (108 infected, 52 non-infected).

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