Publications by authors named "Pranit Kakde"
Urinary Tract Infection in Elderly: Clinical Profile and Outcome.
J Assoc Physicians India
June 2018
Objective: Urinary tract infection (UTI) being the most common bacterial infection with considerable morbidity and mortality especially in hospitalized geriatric patients, this study was designed to assess clinical profile, predisposing factors, uropathogen profile causing UTI and to identify associated factors responsible for mortality.
Methods: :Prospective observational study was undertaken among elderly patients aged ≥ 60 years in a tertiary care hospital. 95 indoor patients from medicine wards having symptoms of UTI and urine culture showing significant growth were included in the study.
Objective: To study the magnitude of the complication of catheter associated right atrial thrombus (CRAT) in patients with tunnelled central venous hemodialysis catheters (THC) for maintenance hemodialysis (MHD).
Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted among patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) with THC for MHD who had undergone screening for CRAT with a 2D-echo (2DE) just before removal of the THC. The occurrence of CRAT and other clinical parameters were documented in these patients.
Background: Chronic aluminum toxicity (CAT) in end stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients is now a rare clinical disorder, unlike in the past, because of improvements in hemodialysis water purification systems and discontinuation of use of aluminum hydroxide as a phosphate binder. The use of aluminum utensils for cooking could be an unrecognised cause of the CAT.
Objective: To assess the association between aluminum kitchen utensils used for cooking meals and chronic aluminum toxicity (CAT) in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD).