194 results match your criteria: "VMMC Safdarjung Hospital[Affiliation]"
Indian J Tuberc
July 2022
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi 110029, India. Electronic address:
J Clin Aesthet Dermatol
April 2022
Dr. Raju is with the Department of Dermatology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, India.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to the need to use personal protective equipment such as masks, among healthcare professionals and the general public. Numerous facial dermatoses linked to the use of masks have been described, from which the term has emerged. Although prolonged mask usage has been necessary, and a vast majority of people develop various skin conditions, there is a lack of research on the effects of masks on skin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed J Armed Forces India
April 2022
Professor (Pediatrics), VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Background: Sixty percent of children with nephrotic syndrome have frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent course. Serious infections like peritonitis, cellulitis, pneumonia etc. and anasarca with reduced urine output and complications there of including acute kidney injury and thromboembolism contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality in these children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Family Med Prim Care
February 2022
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Introduction: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is the most common rheumatic disease that is characterized by degradation of articular cartilage, subchondral bone alteration, meniscal degeneration, synovial inflammatory response, and overgrowth of bone and cartilage. In severe OA, the reduced mobility caused by pain can increase bone loss and reduction of bone mineral density leading to osteoporosis.
Objective: To examine the possible relationship between severity of osteoarthritis (OA) and bone mineral density (BMD) by evaluating the bone mineral density in ipsilateral proximal femur and radiographic grading of knee OA in the Indian population.
Ann Indian Acad Neurol
January 2021
Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
J Obstet Gynaecol India
August 2022
Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, 110029 India.
Background: COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the multisystem involvement in COVID-infected patients is beyond the usual clinical manifestations of other respiratory viral illnesses. This study aims to evaluate the upshots of COVID-19 in women with preeclampsia.
Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted in department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital (May-November 2020), wherein a retrospective review of the medical records of laboratory confirmed SARS CoV2-positive pregnant women (as per ICMR), with preeclampsia (as defined by ACOG guidelines), was done in the dedicated COVID labour ward.
J Foot Ankle Surg
September 2022
Senior Resident, Department of Orthopedics, Gautam Buddha Chikitsa Mahavidyalaya, Jhajhra, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Electronic address:
Atypical or complex clubfoot constitutes a small number of cases. Due to the difference in complexity of anatomy, standard deformity correction by Ponseti is not effective. Hence a modified Ponseti method was advised which focuses on deformity differences for treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbdom Radiol (NY)
April 2022
Department of Radiodiagnosis and Interventional Radiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an extension and an enhanced form of ultrasound that allows real-time evaluation of the various structures in different vascular phases. The last decade has witnessed a widespread expansion of CEUS applications beyond the liver. It has shown fair potential in kidneys and its diagnostic efficacy is comparable to CT and MRI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Radiol
June 2022
Radiology & Orthopaedic Surgery, UTSW, TX, 75390-9178, Dallas, USA.
• Neuropathy imaging is not that complicated or illusive that it needs a touch of genius.• By gaining MR imaging expertise of peripheral nerve lesions and using knowledge of common clinical patterns and diseases, general radiology practitioners can prudently participate in the multidisciplinary care for appropriate and timely management of peripheral neuropathy patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
December 2021
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi, India.
Introduction: Left ventricular (LV) pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon condition with a high risk of death due to spontaneous rupture. The symptoms are nonspecific and diagnosis is often delayed. Surgical repair is the treatment of choice despite associated operative mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
January 2022
Department of General Surgery, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi 110029, India.
J Clin Exp Hepatol
February 2021
Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, D-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India.
Background/aims: This study aimed to study the outcome and survival of patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) receiving drug-eluting beads (DEBs) transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). In addition, tumor morphologies were correlated with the response and survival to analyze the association of morphology with the outcome.
Methods: Patients with large HCC (>5 cm) who underwent DEB-TACE for palliation were analyzed retrospectively.
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther
May 2022
Department of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Objective: India is among the largest consumers of antibiotics. Easy availability and growing sales of Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs) of antibiotics can worsen Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). There is lack of comprehensive data on available antibiotic FDC formulations, their dose strengths and adequacy of scientific evidence regarding their efficacy, safety and suitability for human use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Assoc Physicians India
October 2021
Consultant & Professor, Department of Pathology, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
Cureus
October 2021
Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, IND.
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has aggravated the demand for diabetes care due to restrictive measures like the lockdown affecting access to healthcare services. The current study was conducted to assess the changes in medication compliance, dietary pattern, and glucose monitoring during the lockdown period as compared to the pre-lockdown period among patients living with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) attending a diabetes clinic in northern India. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted between May and July 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurol India
November 2021
Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Introduction: Genetically defined spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type 1 and 2 patients have differential clinical profile along with probable distinctive cortical and subcortical neurodegeneration. We compared the degree of brain atrophy in the two subtypes with their phenotypic and genotypic parameters.
Methods: MRI was performed using a 3T scanner (Philips, Achieva) to obtain 3D T1-weighted scans of the whole brain and analyzed by FreeSurfer (version 5.
Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther
November 2021
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, VMMC Safdarjung Hospital, India.
The twenty-first century, with its transforming ideology and rising acceptance, is witnessing an increased number of transgender people applying for gender reassignment surgery (GRS). The procedure of GRS is a lengthy and complex one involving the active collaboration of multiple disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, family medicine, plastic surgery, endocrinology, otolaryngology, urology, gynaecology, maxillofacial surgery, and anaesthesiology. The considerable paucity of literature regarding the management of patients presenting for GRS places health care providers at a disadvantage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic Health Genomics
October 2021
Department of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Introduction: Warfarin is widely used and will continue to be prescribed especially in developing countries due to its low cost. Given the huge patient load requiring anticoagulation, there is a need to develop strategies to optimize warfarin therapy for ensuring safe and effective anticoagulation. In the present work, we aimed at elucidating the association of genetic and nongenetic variables with warfarin dose requirement in patients attending the cardiovascular clinic in a tertiary care center of North India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Radiol
January 2022
Department of Radiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Objective: Early detection of peripheral neuropathy is extremely important as leprosy is one of the treatable causes of peripheral neuropathy. The study was undertaken to assess the role of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in ulnar neuropathy in leprosy patients.
Methods: This was a case-control study including 38 patients (72 nerves) and 5 controls (10 nerves) done between January 2017 and June 2019.
J Clin Neurosci
November 2021
Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India. Electronic address:
Objective: Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which, autonomic dysfunction is a common manifestation. Brain area atrophy also involves the areas comprising central autonomic network (CAN) in SCA. Structural atrophy of CAN and autonomic dysfunction should go hand in hand.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Plast Surg
April 2021
Department of Burns, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
A congenital nevi is a pigmented patch which requires complete surgical excision for cosmetic reasons. Here, we report a case of a patient with facial hairy pigmented lesion, occupying the right half of her face since birth, who underwent complete surgical excision and staged reconstruction utilizing, preexpanded forehead and neck skin. We used two rectangular tissue expanders with 150 and 300 cubic cm of volumes inserted in the forehead and the neck, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaedica (Bucur)
March 2021
Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, Delhi, India.
Metabolic syndrome is a known risk factor for various diseases including coronary artery disease and is associated with subclinical-inflammation. Various inflammatory markers have been evaluated in metabolic syndrome. However, the data evaluating serum ferritin in metabolic syndrome is sparse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Heart J Case Rep
April 2021
Professor of Medicine & Interventional Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Military Hospital, Jaipur-302016, India.
Background: Single coronary artery (SCA) is a rare congenital coronary anomaly with incidence of 8-66 per 100 000 cases. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with SCA is technically challenging. This is a case of bifurcation angioplasty involving left anterior descending/right coronary artery (LAD/RCA) in a patient with SCA and 1-year follow-up with computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Family Med Prim Care
February 2021
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), AIIMS Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Context: Chronic lower back pain (CLBP) and Vitamin D deficiency are two common conditions presenting to primary care physicians.
Aims: To study the vitamin D status in North Indians presenting with nonspecific CLBP and the correlation between vitamin D levels and pain severity by the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).
Settings And Design: An observational study.