Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: Operative techniques to optimize the recipient’s outcome

Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: Operative techniques to optimize the recipient’s outcome

January 13, 2017

Peng Soon Koh1, See Ching Chan21Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, ChinaDOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.198356 ABSTRACT Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is widely accepted today with good…

Understanding the links between vestibular and limbic systems regulating emotions

Understanding the links between vestibular and limbic systems regulating emotions

January 13, 2017

Archana Rajagopalan1, KV Jinu2, Kumar Sai Sailesh2, Soumya Mishra3, Udaya Kumar Reddy4, Joseph Kurien Mukkadan51Department of Physiology, Saveetha Medical College, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India2Department of Physiology, Little Flower Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Angamaly, Kerala, India3Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal…

Xylitol in preventing dental caries: A systematic review and meta-analyses

Xylitol in preventing dental caries: A systematic review and meta-analyses

January 13, 2017

Chandrashekar Janakiram, CV Deepan Kumar, Joe JosephDepartment of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.198344 ABSTRACT Xylitol is a sugar alcohol having the properties that reduce levels of mutans streptococci (MS) in the plaque and…

Gefitinib in the treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutation

Gefitinib in the treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutation

June 27, 2016

Fariz Nurwidya, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa TakahashiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Research Institute for Diseases of Old Ages, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.184695 ABSTRACT Lung cancer…

Vedolizumab: A novel anti-integrin drug for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

Vedolizumab: A novel anti-integrin drug for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

January 28, 2016

Harmanjit Singh1, Nipunjot Grewal2, Ekta Arora1, Harish Kumar3, Ashish Kumar Kakkar41Department of Pharmacology, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jalandhar, Punjab, India.2Department of Pharmacology, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.3Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.4Department of Pharmacology, VMMC and…

Challenges and advances in optimizing liver allografts from donation after circulatory death donors

Challenges and advances in optimizing liver allografts from donation after circulatory death donors

January 28, 2016

Andrew Ian Sutherland, Gabriel C OniscuScottish Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.175017 ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a shift in the donor demographics with an increase in donation after circulatory death (DCD). Livers obtained from…

Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood tuberculosis

Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood tuberculosis

July 6, 2015

Mani Kant Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Anjali SinghDepartment of Pediatrics, Narayan Medical College and Hospital, Jamuhar, Sasaram, Bihar, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.159988 ABSTRACT Despite over 2.3 million (26% of global burden) cases of tuberculosis (TB) in India the accurate diagnosis of childhood TB remains a…

Vestibular stimulation: A simple but effective intervention in diabetes care

Vestibular stimulation: A simple but effective intervention in diabetes care

July 6, 2015

Kumar Sai Sailesh, R Archana, JK MukkadanDepartment of Physiology, Little Flower Medical Research Centre, Angamaly, Kerala; Department of Physiology, Saveetha Medical College, Thandalam, Chennai, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.159991 ABSTRACT Despite the complexities of the relationship between vestibular stimulation and endocrine disorders being well known,…

Prevention of childhood obesity in India: Way forward

Prevention of childhood obesity in India: Way forward

January 14, 2015

Sitanshu Sekhar Kar1, Subhranshu Sekhar Kar21Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.2Department of Pediatrics, RAK Medical and Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.149071 ABSTRACT Childhood obesity is a burden in developed and developing countries. Overweight and…

Malnutrition among under-five children in India and strategies for control

Malnutrition among under-five children in India and strategies for control

January 14, 2015

Swaroop Kumar Sahu1, S Ganesh Kumar1, B Vishnu Bhat2, KC Premarajan1, Sonali Sarkar1, Gautam Roy1, Nitin Joseph31Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India2Department of Pediatrics, JIPMER, Puducherry, India3Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, Karnataka, IndiaDOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.149072…