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Medicine Update 2017-Contents

Volume 2

SECTION 1: Infection
1. Basics of Prescribing Antimicrobial Drugs Mahadev T Desai
2. Rational for Antibiotics – Guidelines Mangesh Tiwaskar, Tanuja Manohar
3. Pyrexia of Unknown Origin - Physician’s Challenge Asha N Shah
4. Vector Borne Diseases Falguni S Parikh
5. Tropical Fevers Smarajit Banik, Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay
6. Diagnostic Challenges of Malaria in India Sarita Behera
7. Changing Profile of Dengue Infection in India Prasanta Kumar Bhattacharya, Aakash Roy
8. Dengue Profile in Guwahati PC Bhattacharyya, Manabendra Nayak,
Lalit Mohan Bhardwaj
9. Leptospirosis in Current Status Shobha Manish Itolikar
10. Management of Kala-Azar – from Bench to Bedside Shyam Sundar, Jaya Chakravarty
11. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Debasis Chakrabarti
12. Swine Flu Bala Vinoth, D Suresh Kumar
13. Clinical Presentation and Systemic Manifestations of Zika Virus Rajib Ratan Chaudhary
14. Typhoid Fever: An Index of Sanitation in India K Nagesh
15. Typhoid Fever – Recent Management Uttam Kumar Paul
16. Atypical Presentation of Typhoid Fever: A Case Report J Bhagwan, A Bansal, S Bansal
17. Current Management: Filariasis Manoranjan Behera, Sidhartha Das,
Jayanta K Panda
18. Invasive Fungal Infections Ayesha J Sunavala, Rajeev Soman
19. Mucormycosis: A Challenge Not Limited to Diabetics Ketan Patel, Swati Gohel, Atul Patel
20. Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Nitin Sinha
SECTION 2: Tuberculosis
21. Available Diagnostic Tools in Mycobacteriology: A Recap on Utility Mohanjeet Kaur, Ashish Chawla
22. Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Supriya Sarkar
23. Challenges in the Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Bidita Khandelwal
24. Approach to Neurotuberculosis Virendra Kr Goyal
25. Indian Scenario Management of Tuberculosis Vishal Chopra, Jawahar Lal Joshi,
Ashrafjit S Chahal
26. Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Pralhad P Prabhudesai, Abha Pandey
SECTION 3: HIV
27. HIV Epidemiology BB Rewari
28. HIV & Diabetes – A Double Trouble PK Agrawal
29. Bone Health in HIV AR Pazare
30. Opportunistic Infections in HIV Partha S Karmakar, Tuhin Santra, Apu Adhikary
31. Management of Failure of Antiretroviral Treatment Subhasish Kamal Guha, Dolanchampa Modak
SECTION 4: Immunology
32. ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’ and Development of Immunity Bidyut Kumar Das, Aditya K Panda
33. Adult Immunization OP Sharma
34. Monoclonal Antibodies: What Clinicians Should Know Anand Sudhakar Bhave
SECTION 5: Rheumatology
35. Approach to Arthritis Liyakat Ali Gauri, BR Ajay, Asim Khan,
Nadeem Liyakat, Qadir Fatima
36. Approach to Seronegative Arthritis Harminder Singh Pannu, Harpreet Kaur,
Anmol Singh, Piyush Harchand
37. Pre-clinical Rheumatoid Arthritis - Identification and Implication Rohini Handa
38. Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Reality in 2017 Shankar Subramanian
39. Gout in 2017 Arup Kumar Kundu, Abhishek Kundu
40. The Future of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Satyabrata Ganguly, Anish Kar
41. Pulmonary Renal Syndrome Yojana Gokhale, Raosaheb Rathod
42. Antiphospholipid Syndrome Vikram Londhey
SECTION 6: Pulmonology
43. Chronic Cough - Diagnostic Dilema M Sabir, Sanjay Kochar, Sanjay Tundwal
44. Non Resolving Pneumonia Devendra Prasad Singh
45. Health Care Associated Pneumonias Atul Bhasin, RK Singal
46. How to Manage Solitary Pulmonary Nodule (SPN) Keerat Kaur Sibia, Rajbir Singh, Akash Batta, Rishu Bhanot, RS Bhatia, SS Sibia
47. Chronic Granulomatous Disorders: What we Know Dinesh Gupta, Gursimran Kaur
48. Current Concepts and Controversies in the Treatment of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Akashdeep Singh
49. Approach to Difficult Asthma Amita Nene
50. Newer Therapies in COPD Prem Parkash Gupta
51. Interstitial Lung Diseases Ketaki Barve, Jyotsna M Joshi
52. Fungal Infection in the Lung Udas Chandra Ghosh, Kaushik Hazra
53. Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia Harpreet Singh
54. Role of Bronchoscopy in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases Ajay Handa, Jyothi Ranganathan
55. Role of Interventions in Pulmonology Agam Vora
56. High Altitude and Respiratory System BNBM Prasad
57. Acute Mountain Sickness Rajiv Raina, Sanjay K Mahajan
58. Pulmonary Hypertension - Hope & Challenges Sudhir Varma, Samman Verma
SECTION 7: Gastroenterology
59. Long Term PPI Use: Is it Really Safe? Ramesh Roop Rai
60. PPIs and Antiplatelets Latest Concepts Randhir Sud
61. Management if Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Practical Approach Uday C Ghoshal
62. Making a Positive Diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Ujjwal Sonika, Vineet Ahuja
63. Chronic Diarhoea – An Approach Swaroop Kumar Baruah, Suman Talukdar
64. Management of Ulcerative Colitis: Step-up or Step-down Approach? Bhaskar Nandi
65. Medical Management of Acute Pancreatitis Rajoo Singh Chhina, Amit Bansal, Amanat Sidhu, Rajdeep Singh
SECTION 8: Hepatology
66. NAFLD and Diabetes Lalit Kumar Meher, Sunil Kumar Kota
67. Diabetic Hepatopathy Rajesh Upadhyay
68. NAFLD – Where Do We Stand Today KK Lohani
69. Nash: Do we Really have an Effective Treatment? Sandeep Satsangi, Ajay Duseja
70. Alcoholic Hepatitis in India: Current Prospective and Management Suresh Kumar
71. Ascites - From Basics to Bedside Harbir Kaur Rao, Rajinder Singh Gupta
72. Approach to Hepatorenal Syndrome DN Amarapurkar
73. Should we Treat Chronic Hepatitis B Carrier Mamun Al Mahtab,
Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar
74. Hepatitis C: Paradigm Shift in the Management Samir R Shah, Vibhor Borkar
75. Hepatocellular Cancer (HCC): Screening and Management Subrat Kumar Acharya, Sashi Bala Paul, Shalimar
SECTION 9: Geriatrics
76. Telomere and Ageing VN Mishra, Nalini Mishra, Ishan
77. The Immunity in Elderly Jyotirmoy Pal, Pradip Kumar Chowdhury
78. Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Vijay Garg, Raman Parashar, Aadish Kumar Jain, AK Pancholia
79. Infections in Elderly Gandharba Ray, L Ravi Kumar
SECTION 10: Neurology
80. Primary Headache Disorders - An Update Anup Kr Bhattacharya, Agnibha Maity
81. Approach to Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders Balamurugan Namasivayam
82. Management Tips of Epilepsy: A Physician’s Perspective Sudhir V Shah
83. Management of Epilepsy in Special Situations Jaslovleen Kaur, Gagandeep Singh
84. Recent Advances in Epilepsy Sushil Tandel
85. Surgery for Parkinson’s disease and Epilepsy Paresh Doshi, Raghvendra Ramdasi,
Smita Thorve
86. Thrombolysis in Stroke - Experience In India Apratim Chatterjee, Subhodeep Gupta,
Bhaskar Ghosh, Biman Kanti Ray
87. Tough Calls in Neurology K Mugundhan
88. Motor Neuron Diseases Joy D Desai
89. A Case Based Approach to Acute Flaccid Paralysis Salil Gupta
90. Approach Towards a Patient with Vertigo Sanjiv Maheshwari, Ravi Kumar Meena
SECTION 11: Haematology
91. Iron Deficiency Anemia – Needs Attention and Proper Management Pramod Kumar Sinha
92. Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure K Sarat Chandra
93. Anaemia of Chronic Disease: Current Update Ananda Bagchi, Aradhya Sekhar Bagchi
94. Clinical Utility of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Modern Era Pratap Singh, Sanjay Kumar
95. Pancytopenia: Clinical approach Ajai Kumar Garg, AK Agarwal, GD Sharma
96. Current Management of Hemophilia S Usha
97. Hemophilia: Prophylactic Therapy with Conventional and Newer Agents Tarun Kumar Dutta, Shailendra Prasad Verma, Deepak Charles
98. Newer Therapies in Hemophilia Sandeep Garg, Naresh Gupta, Sunita Aggarwal
99. Artificial Blood: An Update on Current Red Cell and Platelet Substitutes AS Mohan
100. Blood Component Therapy Mathew Thomas
101. Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia – An Overview Sunita Aggarwal, Jahnvi Dhar, Sandeep Garg, Naresh Gupta
SECTION 12: Pregnancy
102. Anaemia in Pregnancy K Tewary, Anubha Singh
103. Thyroid Diseases in Pregnancy Padmavathy S Menon
104. Management of Hypothyroid in Pregnancy Sarita Bajaj
105. Heart Diseases in Pregnancy Monotosh Panja, Arindam Pande,
Madhumanti Panja, Ajanta Samanta
106. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy AN Rai, Mritunjay Kumar Singh
107. Acute Infections in Pregnancy Niteen D Karnik, Priya Bhate
108. Jaundice in Pregnancy Saurabh Srivastava, Payal Jain
109. SLE and Pregnancy Sirisha K, Narasimulu G
110. Rational Use of DMARDS During Pregnancy and Lactation RN Sarkar, Chandan Kumar Das
111. Drugs in Pregnancy Mandish K Dhanjal
SECTION 13: Poisoning
112. Approach to the Patient with Unknown Poisoning Biranchi Narayan Mohapatra, CBK Mohanty
113. Management of Snake Bite in India Shibendu Ghosh, Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay
114. Mushroom Poisoning Bhupen Barman, KG Lynrah, Iadarilang Tiewsoh
115. Approach to Common Poisoning in Punjab Gursaran Kaur Sidhu
116. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy as Rescue Therapy in Paracetamol Induced Fulminant Hepatic Failure Rajesh Mishra
SECTION 14: Critical Care
117. ABG Analysis in Clinical Setting Rajesh Mahajan, Suman Sethi
118. Electrolytes in ICU TH Trivedi
119. Glycemic Control in I.C.U. Ramesh Kumar Goenka
120. Approach to Sepsis Gurinder Mohan, AP Singh, Ranjeet Kaur
121. Sepsis - Old Wine in New Bottle? Puneet Saxena, Madabhushi Shyam
122. Septic Shock: How Do I Manage? Pravat Kumar Thatoi
123. AKI in ICU – Diagnosis and Management Georgi Abraham, Neethu Venkitakrishnan
SECTION 15: Nephrology
124. Microalbumunuria - A Risk Factor for CVD Mritunjay Kumar Singh
125. Management of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: Revisited Narinder Pal Singh, Neena Garg
126. Kidney Injury in Tropical Infections HK Aggarwal, Deepak Jain, Pulkit Chhabra
127. Contrast Associated Acute Kidney Injury: Nephrologist’s Perspective Dinesh Khullar
128. Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology Sudhir Kulkarni, Kshitija Gadekar
129. Complicated Urinary Tract Infection Dipankar Bhowmik, Sudeep Singh
130. My Diet Plan for Diabetic and CKD Sanjay Dash
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SECTION 16: Hypertension
131. Power to Control Systolic Blood Pressure-An Indian Evidence Tiny Nair
132. High Altitude Systemic Hypertension (HASH) - A New Entity Yanamandra Uday, Velu Nair
133. Alcohol and Hypertension Related Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction-Intergrated Approach Using Echocardiography Maninder Singh, Suraj Kumar Arora,
Rohit Tandon
134. Renovascular Hypertension R Chandni, R Gayathri
135. Resistant Hypertension Kidiyur Jayakar Shetty,
Manohar Kathige Nageshappa
136. Vascular Remodeling in Hypertension Sanjay Jain, Srikanth Gopi
137. Secondary Hypertension: An Age-Based Approach to Diagnosis Amit A Saraf, Anoosha Bhandarkar
138. Difficult to Treat Hypertension RK Singal, Vivek Pal Singh, AK Vardani
139. Hypertension Urgencies & Emergencies Sekhar Chakraborty
140. YOUNG Hypertensives: Do we Need to Look at them Differently? Sanjay Kalra, KVS Hari Kumar
141. NCD Update: Connection between Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease C Venkata S Ram
142. Hypertension in CKD - Management Issues Pritam Gupta, Ankur Gupta
143. Managing Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke : A Dilemma Bhupendra Chaudhary, Binay Karak
144. Impact of Recent Hypertension Guidelines on Clinical Practice NK Soni, VB Jindal
145. Best Practices in Hypertension-2017 PC Manoria, Pankaj Manoria, Piyush Manoria,
SK Parashar
146. Role of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Hypertension 2017 Santosh Bandopant Salagre
147. Newer Beta Blocker in Hypertension Anita Jaiswal
148. Hypertension Guidelines for 2017 – The Evidence So Far Uday M Jadhav, Amit Saraf
149. Combination Drug Therapy in Hypertension AU Mahajan, Zohaib Shaikh
150. Recent Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Ashok L Kirpalani, Dilip A Kirpalani
151. A Review of Nutritional Factors in Hypertension Management Ashok K Taneja, Tejinder Singh, Ashok Chandna
152. Life Style Modification in Non Communicable Diseases BB Thakur, Smita Thakur
153. Approach to the Patients with Hypertension BR Bansode
SECTION 17: Metabolism
154. Exploiting the Gut to Treat Obesity Soumitra Ghosh
155. Newer Lipid Guidelines: Interpretation and Applications for Indians SN Narasingan
156. Management of Dyslipidemia in India: What should be Our Approach in View of the Differing Guidelines Santanu Guha, Sumanta Chatterjee
157. Pharmacotherapy of Obesity Sachin Kumar Jain, Rati Singh,
Ramesh Aggarwal, Ritika Sud
SECTION 18: Diabetes
158. Unburdening the Burden of Diabetes V Seshiah, V Balaji, Madhuri S Balaji
159. Diabetes: Ethical Issues Vitull K Gupta, Meghna Gupta, Sonia Arora
160. Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Systems YP Munjal, Joydeep Chaudhuri, RK Singal
161. Lipids and Diabetes Vijay Panikar, Tejas Kamat, Jimit Vadgama
162. Appoach to Brittle Diabetes Seetha Raju
163. Pancreatic Diabetes Sidhartha Das, SK Tripathy, BP Panda
164. Diabetes Mellitus: A CV Risk Equivalent Kashinath Padhiary
165. Statin Associated New Onset Diabetes Mellitus – Myth or Reality? VA Kothiwale, Deebanshu Gupta, R Ravikanth, Saurabh Gaur
166. Alpha Cells, Glucagon and Type 2 Diabetes SP Sondhi, Amit Rastogi, Shaifali Nandwani
167. Treating Diabetes - A Matter of Selectivity of Sulphonylureas AJ Asirvatham
168. Type 2 Diabetes in Young Samar Banerjee
169. Metformin Revisited – 2016 Rajinder Singh Gupta, Harbir Kaur Rao
170. Hydroxychloroquine: A Therapeutic Choice in Diabetes Mellitus Narayan Deogaonkar
171. Insulin Pumps in India NP Jain, Rishu Bhanot
172. SGLT-2 Inhibitor: A Unique Antidiabetic in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus AK Chauhan
173. SGLT2 Inhibitors Vijay Negalur
174. Clinical Impact of Newer Insulins for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Marc Evans
175. Prevention and Management of Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy AK Mukherjee
176. Management of Autonomic Neuropathy in Diabetes R Rajasekar
177. Approach to Hypoglycemia Benny Negalur
178. Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus Anupam Prakash, Yash Pal Munjal,
Aparna Kansal, Ghan Shyam Pangtey
179. Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy Sunil Gupta, Gurleen Wander
180. Basal Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Parikshit Goswami
181. Empagliflozin: Potential Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Benefits Aparna Kansal, Suman Kirti, YP Munjal
SECTION 19: Endocrinology
182. Panhypopituitarism Rajesh Rajput
183. Vitamin D: In Health and Clinical Practice BK Mahavarkar, Anoosha Bhandarkar
184. Subclinical Hypothyroidism Gayatri Ghanekar, Manoj Chadha
185. Subclinical Hyper and Hypo Thyroidism - When to Treat Ankit Shrivastav
186. Hypothyroidism.....Beyond Thyroid ! Alaka Deshpande
187. Obesity- Tackling the Epidemic with an Individual-Centric Approach Anupam Prakash
SECTION 20: Venous Disorders
188. Anatomy, Physiology & Classification of Varicose Veins Ravul Jindal, Bhanupriya Wadhawan,
Piyush Chaudhary
189. Incidence and Prevalence of Venous Disease in India Pinjala Ramakrishna
190. Medical Treatment of Varicose Veins Ajay K Khanna, Soumya Khanna
191. Endovenous Ablation Therapy for Varicose Veins Shoaib F Padaria
192. Over View of Management of Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis Vimalin Samuel, Edwin Stephen
193. Pulmonary Embolism Harinder Singh Bedi
194. Catheter directed Thrombolysis in Deep Vein Thrombosis ( DVT), Technique and Results Over Last Decade DB Dekiwadia
SECTION 21: Cardiology
195. Back to Bedside Basics - Pulse, Blood Pressure and Jugular Venous Pulse Ruchit A Shah, BR Bansode
196. Coagulation Cascade - What’s New BL Bhardwaj, Harnoor S Bhardwaj, Pallav Jain, Kanchan Saini
197. Anti-Platelet Therapy Nihar Mehta, Nikesh Jain
198. Combined Oral Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy - Management of a Difficult Situation Jamshed J Dalal
199. How to Prevent and Control the Epidemic of Coronary Artery Disease in Indians Julian Johny Thottian, Binjo Vazhappilly,
Mohanan Padinharepurayil
200. Noninvasive Testing for Diagnosis of Stable Coronary Artery Disease Srinivasan Narayanan, Ajit Mullasari
201. Management Strategies in Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTE-ACS) in India Satyavan Sharma, Nikhil Raut
202. Management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease – Current Perspective Dev Pahlajani
203. STEMI Care in India and the Real World: Role of Thrombolysis HK Chopra
204. Risk Stratification and Management Algorithm of NSTEMI Lekha Pathak, Ankur Jhavar
205. Cardiac Intervention Pawan K Suri
206. Recent Developments in Intensive Cardiac Care for Acute Cardiac Disorders Suraj Kumar Arora, Abhishek Goyal,
Gurpreet S Wander
207. Five Recent Land Mark Trials in Cardiology: How have They Changed Our Practice VK Bahl, Anunay Gupta
208. To Assess Predictive Value of Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness as a Non-Invasive Marker for Coronary and Cerebral Artery Disease Gurmukh S Sainani, Mitul A Shah
209. Two-and Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of the Aortic Valve Efstathia Andrikopoulou, Garima Arora,
Navin C Nanda
210. Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Indian Scenario Saumitra Ray, Amitava Mazumdar
211. Heart Failure in Young and Elderly – Management Strategies Brian Pinto, Chetan Rathi, Ankeet Dedhia
212. Cardiac Pacemakers: Indications, Choices and Follow Up Sandeep Bansal, Praloy Chakraborty
213. Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People: Can it be Prevented Harendra Kumar
214. Update in Preoperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Perioperative Cardiovascular Medical Management Michael A Mikhail, Arya B Mohabbat,
Amit K Ghosh
215. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Vivek Gupta, Alain Criber
SECTION 22: Beyond Medicine
216. Netaji Oration
Physician: The Healer and the Professional
Satish V Khadilkar
217. Medical Practices on Cross Roads DN Upasani
218. Personalized Medicine: Making Effective Therapy Safe for Every Individual Ramchandra D Lele
219. Doctor-Patient Relationship Ambika Prasad Mohanty
220. Democratizing Knowledge to Improve Care for the Underserved: Project ECHO Sanjeev Arora, Kumud Rai, Sunil Anand
221. Advance to Advance on: The First Evidence of Legacy Effect in the Management of Hypertensive Diabetic Patients Sanjay Kalra
222. Laughter is the Best Medicine Anil Chaturvedi
223. Medicine is a Serious Business? Arulrhaj, Aarathy Kannan, Ajinkya Borhade, Sachin Babhalsure
224. Saga of Man, Microbiome and P4 Bedside Medicine Prakash Pispati
225. Nuclear Medicine as a Problem Solver in Diagnosis and Therapy Vikram R Lele
226. Does Modern Medicine Increase Life-expectancy: Quest for the Moon Rabbit? Sundeep Mishra
227. The Heart and Lung cannot Live without Each Other Bhavin Jankharia
228. New Approach to Management of Erectile Dysfunction in 2017 Deepak K Jumani
229. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Jalees Fatma
230. Reducing Breast Cancer: Risks and Options Karthik Ghosh, Amit K Ghosh
231. A Rational Approach to Cancer Pain Management PN Jain
232. Smartphone Applications in Clinical Medicine Shriram V Kulkarni, Sagar Sinha, Adhar Kulkarni, Chitra S Kulkarni, Vivek Redkar,
Swaraj S Devlalkar, Sayali S Devlalkar,
Aditya S Kulkarni, Arun Kurhe, Om Kulkarni
233. Air Ambulance Services Transport of Critically Sick Patients Munish Prabhakar, Geeta Kampani,
Ashok Chandna
234. Recent Management of Lymphoedema SB Gogia
235. Sahaja Yoga for Management of Stress & Life Style Diseases Sandeep Rai, Madhur Rai, Yashoda Kattimani, Vishesh Agarwal
236. Important Drug Interactions Every Physician Must Know Sumeet Singla, AK Agarwal, RK Singal
237. Knowledge Management: Bringing About A New Era in Medicine Aditya Ghosh, Amit K Ghosh
238. Prognostication – A Lost Skill in Medicine M Raveendran
239. Assessment of Uncounsious Patient Saurabh Jain
240. Salt Sensitivity in Hypertension Shashank R Joshi
241. The Icmr Indiab Study – A Compendium of Type 2 Diabetes in India: Lessons Learnt for the Nation Viswanathan Mohan, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Rajendra Pradeepa, Ranjit Unnikrishnan,
Tanvir Kaur, Ashok Kumar Das