Publications by authors named "Sapan C Pandya"
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- - A study was conducted in India to investigate the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRD) who are taking immunosuppressive medications, comparing them to healthy controls living in the same households.
- - The research included 889 participants, with 379 having AIRD and 510 without, finding that 36% of patients with AIRD tested positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies compared to 38% of controls, with slight variations among different cities.
- - Notably, in Kolkata, patients with AIRD had significantly lower levels of antibodies compared to controls, particularly among those with connective tissue diseases compared to those with inflammatory arthritis, indicating that certain groups may be more
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- Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a serious but uncommon complication of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), particularly studied in an Indian population.
- The study analyzed data from 66 SLE patients with AP, finding that most were young women, with AP often occurring during active lupus and linked to various complications.
- The overall mortality rate was 17%, with shock being the strongest predictor of death among those with severe AP.
Introduction: Work disability is a major consequence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), associated not only with traditional disease activity variables, but also more significantly with demographic, functional, occupational, and societal variables. Recent reports suggest that the use of biologic agents offers potential for reduced work disability rates, but the conclusions are based on surrogate disease activity measures derived from studies primarily from Western countries.
Methods: The Quantitative Standard Monitoring of Patients with RA (QUEST-RA) multinational database of 8,039 patients in 86 sites in 32 countries, 16 with high gross domestic product (GDP) (>24K US dollars (USD) per capita) and 16 low-GDP countries (<11K USD), was analyzed for work and disability status at onset and over the course of RA and clinical status of patients who continued working or had stopped working in high-GDP versus low-GDP countries according to all RA Core Data Set measures.
Wegener's granulomatosis is a systemic disease that usually involves the upper respiratory tract and kidneys. We report a 47-year-old man with Wegener's granulomatosis that presented as acute pancreatitis.
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