Publications by authors named "Kartik Chandra Ghosh"
Primary angiitis of the central nervous system is a rare disease characterized by vasculitis of the central nervous system without any systemic involvement. This review aims to provide an insight into the existing stagnancies in the diagnostic approach and management of this disease. The clinical presentation is typically nonspecific, ranging from headaches, altered sensorium, and seizures to recurrent ischemic strokes.
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- There is limited data on movement disorders in hospitalized neurology patients, as most evaluations occur in outpatient settings.
- The study aimed to identify patterns of movement disorders among neurology inpatients admitted from October 2019 to September 2020, using detailed assessments and statistical analysis.
- The findings revealed that bradykinesia with or without tremor was the most common disorder, with variations in prevalence based on age groups; dystonia was more common in younger patients, while bradykinesia and tremor were prevalent in older ones.
The disease concept of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders(NMOSD) has undergone a significant change over the last two decades including the detection of Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein(MOG) antibody in patients who are seronegative for aquaporin-4 antibody. Aquaporin-4 antibody positive NMOSD is now regarded as an immune astrocytopathy. Conversely, MOG antibody associated disease is known to target myelin rather than astrocytes, leading to an NMOSD syndrome with distinct clinical and radiological features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Citicoline is a novel neuroprotective agent used in acute stroke with a significantly favorable outcome.
Materials And Methods: A hundred patients who suffered from either an ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and who presented to the hospital within 48 h of stroke onset were enrolled for the study. Of these 100 patients (age- and sex-matched), 50 patients were treated with citicoline along with the standard stroke management and considered as 'cases'.
Stroke results more than 4.3 million deaths worldwide per annum and 85% of all strokes are ischaemic in nature. Besides numerous modifiable and non-modifiable known risk factors, microalbuminuria is thought to be an important marker of global endothelial dysfunction and associated with cardiovascular disease including stroke.
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