Publications by authors named "P Shunmuga Sundaram"
Background And Objectives: With improving life expectancy, the proportion of geriatric patients is steadily increasing in the population and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the elderly is becoming a problem demanding increasing attention from the health community. We attempted to identify factors that correlate with the outcome (as measured by the Glasgow Outcome Scale [GOS]) in elderly patients with TBI and make a prognostic model.
Materials And Methods: A prospective analysis of 220 consecutive TBI patients aged ≥60 years admitted at our hospital was performed.
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) in adults is an uncommon disorder that occurs almost exclusively in smokers. PLCH has no known gender predilection, and the current consensus of its true aetiology is unknown. Lungs may the sole organ involved, however other organs in the body may be involved as well.
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- * This study compared the newer drug brivaracetam to levetiracetam for preventing EPTS in a clinical trial with 100 patients in Goa, India.
- * While brivaracetam showed a slightly lower incidence of EPTS and similar side effects compared to levetiracetam, the differences were not statistically significant, indicating that brivaracetam is as effective as levetiracetam in preventing EPTS.
Neurologic melioidosis warrants attention in view of its rarity and lethal consequences. We performed a retrospective review of culture confirmed neurologic melioidosis reported between 2017 and 2023. Thirteen patients were identified with median age 43 years and all but three were males.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a valuable method for non-invasive brain stimulation, the cellular basis of TMS activation of neurons is still not fully understood. In vitro preparations have been used to understand the biophysical mechanisms of TMS, but in many cases these studies have encountered substantial difficulties in activating neurons.
Objective/hypothesis: The hypothesis of this work is that conductivity boundaries can have large effects on the electric field in commonly used in vitro preparations.