Publications by authors named "Karthik Nagaraju"
Monitoring is a major component of asthma management in children. Regular monitoring allows for diagnosis confirmation, treatment optimization, and natural history review. Numerous factors that may affect disease activity and patient well-being need to be monitored: response and adherence to treatment, disease control, disease progression, comorbidities, quality of life, medication side-effects, allergen and irritant exposures, diet and more.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Clinical recommendations for childhood asthma are often based on data extrapolated from studies conducted in adults, despite significant differences in mechanisms and response to treatments. The Paediatric Asthma in Real Life (PeARL) Think Tank aspires to develop recommendations based on the best available evidence from studies in children. An overview of systematic reviews (SRs) on paediatric asthma maintenance management and an SR of treatments for acute asthma attacks in children, requiring an emergency presentation with/without hospital admission will be conducted.
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- The study investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected asthma outcomes in children, comparing data from asthmatic children to non-asthmatic children.
- Results showed that during the pandemic, children with asthma had fewer respiratory infections, emergency visits, and hospitalizations, with a significant number experiencing improved asthma control.
- The findings suggest that reduced exposure to asthma triggers and better treatment adherence may have contributed to these improvements, highlighting the potential for environmental control to enhance childhood asthma management.
Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Asthma: Practice Adjustments and Disease Burden.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
September 2020
Background: It is unclear whether asthma may affect susceptibility or severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children and how pediatric asthma services worldwide have responded to the pandemic.
Objective: To describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric asthma services and on disease burden in their patients.
Methods: An online survey was sent to members of the Pediatric Asthma in Real Life think tank and the World Allergy Organization Pediatric Asthma Committee.
Coexistence of tuberculosis (TB) and palatal malignancy is a rare phenomenon and it has never been reported. Here, we present a case of hard palate carcinoma with TB in a 60-year-old male patient who was successfully managed by three pronged approaches by combining antitubercular therapy with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was launched by the Government of India in 1993. The present study has attempted to analyze the perceptions of patients regarding the implementation of RNTCP.
Materials And Methods: The present study was done in a teaching hospital in North India.