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Medicine Update 2010 – Contents

  Foreword BK Sahay
  Preface Siddharth N Shah
  From the Desk of the Editor Murlidhar S Rao
GENERAL & BASICS
1. Research in Clinical Medicine in India : What Api Can Do? V Parameshwara
2. Aging Endothelial Cell Dysfunction and Atherosclerosis. Can We Retard It? GS Sainani, VG Maru
3. Professionalism in Clinical Practice M Maiya
4. Is India Really Getting Fatter- Urban Rural Divide? How to Manage Obesity? Vitull K Gupta, Sonia Gupta
5. Preventive Health Care Anil Chaturvedi
DIABETOLOGY
1. Prediabetic State: Changing Times, Evolving Paradigm, a Ringside View Over Five Decades JS Bajaj
2. Redefining Diabetes as Chronic Cardiovascular Risk Syndrome
(PRESIDENTIAL ORATION)
Murlidhar S Rao
3. Rapid Acting Insulin Analogues Jitendra Singh
4. Diabetic Nephropathy: Novel Mechanisms and Therapies in 2010 Pritam Gupta, Ankur Gupta
5. Glycemic Control in Critically Ill Patients Vijay Achari, Prit Pal Singh, Upendra Baitha
6. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Current : Guidelines for Diagnosis & Management V Seshiah
7. Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Sunil Gupta
8. Drug-Induced Diabetes KK Lohani
9. Basal Insulin Analogues-Uses and Controversies V Balaji
10. Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Shridhar Dwivedi, Sunil K Mishra,
Harneesh Randhawa
11. Role of Glucotoxicity in the Pathogenesis of Complications in Diabetes Mellitus Sidharth Das
12. Beta Cell Preservation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Arvind Gupta, Rajeev Gupta, KK Sharma
13. How to Detect the Millions of People in India with Undiagnosed Diabetes Cost Effectively V Mohan, R Pradeepa, M Deepa, RM Anjana, Ranjit Unnikrishnan I, Manjula Datta
14. “Prediabetes” – Early Detection and Interventions Mallikarjun V Jali
15. Incretin-Based Therapy for type 2 Diabetes: Overcoming Unmet Needs Klaus Henning Jensen
16. Basal Insulin Analogues : From controversies to concepts
(API NOVO NORDISK ORATION)
Chantal Mathieu
17. Is HbA1c Really Essential for Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus SV Madhu
18. Diabetomics : Prospects for Non-invasive Diabetes Testing and Diagnosis PV Rao, Srinivasa R. Nagalla, Charles T Roberts
19. Insulin Guidelines: Taking it Forward Ajay Kumar
20. Pre-diabetes or Diabetes: When to Start? D Maji
21. Update on Intervention Trials to Prevent or Reverse Type 1 Diabetes Ramachandra G Naik
22. Post-Prandial Hyperglycaemia –Implications and Management Pradeep G Talwalkar
23. Life-style Modification and Yoga in Prevention of Diabetes in India –
How Far Have We Come?
BK Sahay, Rakesh Sahay
24. Hyperglycemic Emergencies: Evaluation and Management Guidelines Anant Nigam
25. Diabetic Dyslipidemia-Priorities and Targets in India Jotideb Mukhopadhyay, Saubhik Kanjilal, Monodeep Biswas
26. Untold Story of High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Cholesterol NK Singh
27. Lessons Learnt from Lipid Lowering Trials: Our Future Approach
(PJ Mehta Oration)
SN Narasingan
28. Adiponectin-The Molecule of This Decade VA Kothiwale, Madhav Prabhu
CARDIOLOGY
1. Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Therapeutic Use Nishit Choksi
2. Infective Endocarditis: Current Scenario S Arulrhaj, Aarathy Kannan, B Kannan,
M Selvaganesh
3. Current Management Strategies for Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Lekha Adik Pathak, Salil Shirodkar, Sushant Patil
4. Coronary Heart Disease in Type 2 Diabetes: Epidemiology and
Mechanisms
Rajeev Gupta
5. Cardiomyopathies– Clinical and Echocardiographic Evaluation SR Mittal
6. Pitfalls and Limitations of the Stress Test SB Gupta
7. “Cardiovascular CT Angiography” Ravi Bathina
8. Optimal Utilisation of Stress Testing Vis-À-Vis Other Imaging Modalities Rajeev Gupta
9. Regression of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Diabetes : Fact or Fiction ? SS Iyengar
10. Post Fibrinolytic Strategies in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Dev Pahlajani
11. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Current Concepts Sanjay Tyagi, Sumod Kurien, Anuj Goel
12. Stable Angina: Lessons Learnt from Recent Trials PC Manoria, Pankaj Manoria, Piyush Manoria,
SK Parashar, RK Shrivastava
13. Aortic Valve Disorders PS Reddy
14. Pathophysiology of Heart failure PS Reddy
15. Atrial Fibrillation- Advances in Treatment Yash Lokhanwala, Jignesh Shah, Gopi Krishna Panicker
16. Prehospital Thrombolysis Sunil Sathe, Archana Sathe
17. Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease Nagaraj Desai, Prabhakar C Koregol
18. Post Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Failure Amal Kumar Banerjee, Dipankar Ghosh Dastidar
19. Recent Advances in PCI Anand Parikh, Anand M Rao
20. Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction “The First 12 Hours” AB Mehta, Abhijit Aklujkar
21. CRT and Combo Devices – Who Needs Them and When? Aparna Jaswal, Sameena Khalil
22. Stress Testing in Asymptomatic Persons Manmohan Singh, Vikas Sharma, Amitoj Singh
23. Lipid Lowering and CRP Lowering in Community Practice Uday M Jadhav
24. Awake Cardiac Surgery: Where Does it Stand Today? Vivek Jawali
25. Role of Echo-Doppler in Heart Failure SK Parashar
26. Diabetes & Coronary Artery Disease: PCI or CABG: Pros & Cons Gurpreet Singh Wander, Shibba Takkar Chhabra
27. Cardiogenic Shock- Management M Panja, Madhumati Panja, Saroj Mandal,
Dilip Kumar
28. Stress Echocardiography Rakesh Gupta
29. Anticoagulation Management in Medical Practice Gyannendra K Sharma
30. Thrombolytic Agents- Old and New Hemanth Thacker
31. Venous Thromboembolism- Indian Perspective Gandharba Ray, Manoranjan Behera
32. Heart Rate as a Risk Factor in Cardiac Disease Ashish K Thakur
33. Present Status of Renin Inhibitors Suman Bhandari, S Mittal, N Gupta
34. Newer Antithrombins and Anticoagulants Pankaj Manoria, PC Manoria
35. Ranolazine and Ivabradine- their Current Use Harbir Kaur Rao, Gupta RS, Singh SR
36. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy – A Non Coronary Complication of Diabetes Mellitus HM Mardikar, Parag Admane, Manjusha Mardikar, NV Deshpande, Jhumki Mardikar
37. Management of Aortic Aneurysms Kirit Patel
38. Mitral Valve Disease : Advances in Catheter Interventions CN Manjunath, Prabhavathi
39. Pharmaco-Invasive Therapy in Acute MI Brian Pinto
40. Diastolic Heart Failure – Emerging Trends SN Arya
41. Endovascular Treatments for Critical Limb Ischemia Nishit Choksi
HYPERTENSION
1. Hypertension in Stroke ME Yeolekar
2. Central Aortic Blood Pressure: Emerging Clinical Value C Venkat S Ram
3. Prehypertension (PHTN) VG Nadagouda
4. Baroreceptor Activation Therapy for Treating Resistant Hypertension:
A Status Report
C Venkat S Ram
5. Management of Hypertension in Diabetes BB Thakur
CRITICAL CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE
1. Using ABG in Respiratory Acid Base disorder, Oxygenation and
Mechanical Ventilation Care
CK Jani
2. Organophosphorus Poisoning: Current Management Guidelines NK Sundaray, Ratheesh Kumar J
3. Guidelines for Anti-Snake Venom Therapy Biranchni Narayan Mohapatra, CBK Mohanty
ENDOCRINOLOGY
1. Central Hypothyrodism: A Diagnosis Overlooked? KJ Shetty, Punit Bedi
2. Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) : Changing Scenario Vageesh Ayyar S
3. Hyperthyroidism: Relevant Investigations and Guidelines for Management KM Suryanarayana
4. Vitamin D: It’s Not Just for Bones Anymore D Sudhaker Rao
5. Thyroid Nodule – Revisit Rakesh Sahay, V Sri Nagesh
6. Hirsutism Shashank R Joshi, Mukta Kapdi
GE & HEPATOLOGY
1. Non-Cirrhotic Portal Fibrosis AK Gupta, Jacob George, Prithvi Giri, R Gupta
2. Diabetes and Liver Disease (NETAJI ORATION) Deepak Amarapurkar
3. Management of Jaundice in Pregnancy Rajendra Kumar Jain
4. Clinical Approach To Dilated Bile Duct Rajesh Upadhyay
5A. Complicated Acute Pancreatitis CS Pitchumoni
5B. Increasing Prevalence of Gallstones; Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options CS Pitchumoni
6. Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: What is New? D Nageshwar Reddy, Rupa Banerjee
7. Ulcerative Colitis: Current Management Strategy Sanjay Bandyopadhyay
8. NASH: Advances in Evaluation and Management Rakesh K Tandon
9. Advances in Liver-Directed Cell Therapy for Hepatic and Extra-Hepatic Diseases Sanjeev Gupta
10. Chronic Pancreatitis: Newer Concepts Pramod Kumar Garg
11. Portal Hypertension Dynamics- Pressure, Portal Flow, Progress & Prognosis
(DR. GS SAINANI ORATION)
Prabha Sawant
12. Oral Drug Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B PN Rao
13. Acute Fulminant Hepatic Failure Premashish Kar, Rajiv Singla
14. Acute Pancreatitis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management Other Than Nutrition Deepak Kumar Bhasin, Surinder Singh Rana
15. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Ambika Mohanty,VSM
GERIATRICS
1. Geriatric Lung Agam Vora
2. Principles of Geriatric Pharmacology Y Sathyanarayana Raju
3. Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly Suresh V Sagarad
4. Prevention of Infection in Elderly S Chugh, DN Jha
5. Anaemia in Elderly PC Bhattacharyya, Manabendra Nayak
HEMATOLOGY & MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
1. A Clinical Approach to Polycythemia Mathew Thomas, K Pavithran
2. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms K Pavithran, Mathew Thomas
3. When and How to Treat Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia Shekar Patil
4. Monoclonal Antibodies in Oncology K Govind Babu
5A. Investigations for Thrombophilia: When, Why, How & Who Should be Investigated” Rajat Kumar
5B. How to Interpret BT, PT and APTT Rajat Kumar
6. Thrombocytosis Nandini Mukherjee
7. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Overview and Recent Advances
(SEARLE ORATION)
Vineet Talwar, Rajat Saha
HIV MEDICINE
1. Emergencies in HIV Medicine Alok Vashishtha, BB Rewari
2. Current Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy BB Rewari
3. HIV & TB – The “Deadly Duo” Murgesh G Pastapur
4. HIV Drug Resistance and Second Line of ART R Sajithkumar
5. HIV in the Intensive Care Unit M Dinaker
6. Full Work Up of HIV Positive Patients: How Much, How Far? Alaka Despande
IMAGING & PET
1. Utility of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Medicine GH Tilve, Shwetal Pawar, Sudeshna Maitra
2. Imaging Infection & Inflammation RD Lele
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
1. Dengue Fever in India: An Overview SK Sharma, Gautam Ahluwalia
2. Newer Diagnostic Methods & Drugs in The Treatment of Enteric Fever Ketan K Mehta
3. Swine Flu: Current Perspective in 2010 Jyotirmoy Pal, Ankit Shrivastav
4. Leptospirosis : An Emerging Infection Milind Y Nadkar, Smrati Bajpai
5. Typhoid Fevers – An Appraisal (RANBAXY ORATION) SN Khosla
NEPHROLOGY
1. What is New in Renal Transplant in India Georgi Abraham, Anita A Kumar
2. Cardio-Renal Syndrome Khan SA, Gupta V, Haque SF
3. Metabolic Acid Base Disorders Sanjay Pandya
4. Genetic Basis of Diabetic Nephropathy OP Kalara, SK Datta, S Kumar
5. Reversible Factor in Acute Renal Failure Shahzad F Haque, AS Khan, AM Chughtai,
V Gupta
6. Retarding Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Jai Prakash
7. Changing Scenario of Acute Renal Failure from 20th to 21st Century Kamlakar Tripathi
NEUROLOGY
1. Acute Cerebrovascular Stroke: Advances in Evaluation & Management HV Srinivas
2. Memory Disturbances Manjari Tripathi
3. Headache – Symptom Analysis Y Bhasker
4. Management of Parkinson’s Disease: What is New? D Nagaraja, Pramod Kumar Pal, N Karthik
5. Usefulness and Limitation of Neuroimaging in Epilepsy Mrinal Kanti Roy, Ridhi Das Gupta
6. Vertigo–A Clinical Approach Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Rohit Kumar
7. Peripheral Neuropathy – Some Newer Concepts and Diagnostic Ways. V Nagarajan
8. Neurological Manifestations Associated with HIV Infection: Indian Perspective P Satishchandra
PREGNANCY MEDICINE
1. Pregnancy and Renal Disease Manisha Sahay
2. Pregnancy and Heart Disease BR Bansode
PULMONOLOGY
1. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome MS Barthwal
2. Management of Acute Severe Asthma VP Gopinathan
3. Acute Pulmonary Embolism Debajyoti Bhattacharyya, Ashok Kumar Rajput, Kundan Mishra
4. An Overview of Asthma Management Steven Weinberger
5. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis : What is New ? PS Shankar
6. Obstructive Sleep Apnea- Clinical Spectrum and Management S Ramanathan Iyer, Revati R Iyer
RHEUMATOLOGY
1. Spondyloarthritides- Novel Treatments LS Bichile, Vaibhav Chewoolkar
2. Targets of Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis Arup Kumar Kundu
3. Approach to Systemic Vasculitis Renu Saigal, Amit Kansal
4. Gout in 2010- Looking beyond Allopurinol Rohini Handa
5. Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy :
Diagnostic Challenge & Therapeutic Options
RN Sarkar
6. Lupus Nephritis Tamal Kumar Biswas, Arindam Biswas
7. Chirally Pure Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Joy Philip
8. Mixed Connective Tissue Disorders (MCTD) G Narsimulu, Varaprasad
9. Advances in the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis Sukumar Mukherjee
10. Newer Tools in Rheumatology Practice Ved Chaturvedi
TROPICAL MEDICINE
1. Visceral Leishmaniasis-Current Scenario Shyam Sundar, Anup Singh, Arun Shah
2. Falciparum Malaria in ICU Ashit Bhagawati
NUTRITION
1. Traditional Vs Non-Traditional Diets –
Did Our Grandmother Know the Best?
Shilpa S Joshi
MISCELLANEOUS
1. Roots of Modern Drugs in Reverse Pharmacology Ashok B Vaidya, Rama A Vaidya
2. Smart Way to Select Antibiotics R Vijai Kumar