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Foreword |
YP Munjal |
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Preface |
RK Singal |
| 1. |
Neuronal Control of Aging: Hormonal Signaling and Metabolic Pathways |
JS Bajaj |
| 2. |
Sirolimus: Evolving Trends |
Sukumar Mukherjee |
| 3. |
Hyperhomocysteinemia and its Implications in Atherosclerosis — The Indian Scenario |
GS Sainani, PG Talwalkar, RS Wadia,
AA Keshvani |
| 4. |
Healthcare at Crossroads — Accreditation as a Solution |
Akhil Sangal, Rajesh Upadhyay |
| 5. |
Amyloidosis: Why We Need to Think About It Sooner? |
Shaji Kumar |
| 6. |
Myriad Uses of Botulinum Toxin |
BP Singh, M Behari |
| 7. |
Contemporary Issues in the Health of the Elderly |
Arvind Mathur |
| 8. |
Inflammation, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease |
SB Gupta, Sandeep Gupta |
| 9. |
Life-threatening Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Management Issues |
Balbir Singh |
| 10. |
Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes |
Arthur AM Wilde |
| 11. |
Ventricular Tachycardia: Diagnosis of Broad QRS Complex Tachycardia |
Hein JJ Wellens |
| 12. |
Transradial Vascular Interventions — Expanding Indications and Increasing Safety |
Brian Pinto, Sushant Patil, Anand Rao |
| 13. |
Cardiac Troponins — Current Status |
Gurpreet Singh Wander |
| 14. |
Low Molecular Weight Heparin Current Status |
BR Bansode |
| 15. |
Statins Beyond Lipid Control |
ME Yeolekar, AU Mahajan |
| 16. |
Metabolic Management of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) |
JK Sharma, RP Agrawal, SK Minocha |
| 17. |
Gp2b/3a Inhibitors |
Haresh G Mehta, Ryan D’Souza |
| 18. |
Polypill for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease |
Brian Pinto, Sushant Patil, Anand Rao |
| 19. |
Science and Art of CAD Prevention |
AK Vaish |
| 20. |
Nuclear Cardiology Imaging: Utility and Limitation for Decision Making in Coronary Interventions |
Rajeev Gupta, Rajendra Gupta, Yogesh Verma, BS Yadav, MM Gupta, Sudha Gupta, Neelu Gupta |
| 21. |
Transfatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease |
Murlidhar S Rao |
| 22. |
Management of Infective Endocarditis |
Naveen Garg |
| 23. |
Renal Artery Stenosis — Current Management Perspectives |
NN Khanna, K Roshan Rao, Sarita Yadav Rao, Sangeeta Khanna |
| 24. |
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy |
LN Sharma, RK Goyal |
| 25. |
Anticoagulation Therapy for Prosthetic Valves |
Girish Ramteke |
| 26. |
How to Interpret Arterial Blood Gas Data? |
Alladi Mohan, SK Sharma |
| 27. |
Managing Nosocomial Infections |
Rajeev Soman |
| 28. |
Pulmonary Thromboembolism — Prophylaxis and Management Issues |
Vinay Gulati |
| 29. |
Non-invasive Ventilation |
AM Bhagwati |
| 30. |
Medical Resuscitation in Pregnancy |
T Campbell, S Galwankar, KPO’Keefe |
| 31. |
Rising Prevalence of Diabetes in India and the Implications of ADA-EASD 180 Consensus on the Management |
A Ramachandran |
| 32. |
Metabolic Syndrome — A Useful Concept |
YP Munjal |
| 33. |
Diabetes in the Elderly |
Hemraj B Chandalia, Shaival H Chandalia |
| 34. |
Peripheral Vascular Disease in Diabetes: Special Considerations |
Samar Banerjee |
| 35. |
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus |
V Seshiah |
| 36. |
How Tight is Right? Debating the Issue of Optimal Diabetes Control |
Ajay Kumar |
| 37. |
Tight Control of Diabetes in the ICU Setting |
Sidhartha Das |
| 38. |
Evolution of Modern Insulin |
Anil Bhansali |
| 39. |
Modern Insulins — The Insulin Analogues: A Reappraisal |
Ashok Kumar Das, Ashida TS |
| 40. |
Rapid Acting Analogues in Diabetes Mellitus Management |
Shashank R Joshi |
| 41. |
Basal Insulin Analogues — Where are We Now? |
S Chandru, V Mohan |
| 42. |
Premixed Insulin Analogues: Best of Both Worlds |
Ramachandra G Naik |
| 43. |
Diet in Diabetes with Special Relevance to Dietary Fat Intake |
Sunil Gupta |
| 44. |
OHA and Pregnancy: Current Scenario |
Rakesh Chandra, Malay Shukla, Pankaj Mathur |
| 45. |
Evaluation of Diabetic Nephropathy: Clinical Recommendations |
Jitendra Singh |
| 46. |
Preventive Strategies for Diabetic Nephropathy |
OP Kalra |
| 47. |
Diabetic Gastropathy |
B Gupta, BK Tripathi, UC Kansra |
| 48. |
Insulin and Lipolysis in the Indian Diabetic — A 30-Year Journey |
Suman Kirti |
| 49. |
Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes and Its Economic Implications |
M Maiya |
| 50. |
Hypothyroidism — Treatment Issues: Towards an Indian Consensus |
Shashank R Joshi |
| 51. |
Maternal Hypothyroidism: A Clinical Perspective |
AG Unnikrishnan |
| 52. |
Thyroid Nodule Evaluation and Management — A Physician’s Perspective |
AK Gupta, D Goyal, A Malik, V Aggarwal |
| 53. |
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
Rakesh Kumar Sahay, K Neelaveni |
| 54. |
Growth Hormone and Its Disorders |
Pinaki Dutta |
| 55. |
Andropause — How Relevant? |
VN Mishra, Nalini Mishra |
| 56. |
Testosterone as a Therapeutic Tool |
SV Madhu |
| 57. |
Hypertensive Emergencies |
Atul Bhasin, DG Jain, RM Chhabra, RK Singal |
| 58. |
Common Poisonings in Medical Practice |
Praveen Aggarwal, Sanjeev Bhoi |
| 59. |
Snake Bite Poisoning |
HS Bawaskar |
| 60. |
Oncologic Emergencies: Tumor Lysis Syndrome |
PK Muthukumaraswamy |
| 61. |
Acute Abdomen in Non-surgical Disorders |
BK Tripathi, Neelima Jain, UC Kansra |
| 62. |
An Approach to Chronic Diarrhoea |
Shobna J Bhatia, Praveen Mathew |
| 63. |
Clinical Approach to a Patient with Dysphagia |
GA Prasad |
| 64. |
Helicobacter pylori Eradication: Decision Making in Clinical Practice |
MP Sharma |
| 65. |
Interventions in Acute Pancreatitis |
Rakesh Tandon |
| 66. |
Newer Concepts in Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
Uday C Ghoshal |
| 67. |
Asymptomatic Patients with Raised Enzymes: What to do? |
RK Jain |
| 68. |
Management of Hepatitis B: Recent Advances |
Philip Abraham |
| 69. |
Hepatitis C — Progress in Management |
Samir R Shah |
| 70. |
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease — An Epidemic of the New Millennium |
Rajesh Upadhyay |
| 71. |
Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) |
Sabyasachi Ray |
| 72. |
Pharmacological Control of Portal Hypertension |
M A Kabeer |
| 73. |
Autoimmune Hepatitis |
SG Maity |
| 74. |
Hepatorenal Syndrome: Clinical Considerations |
Vivek A Saraswat, Ravi Rathi |
| 75. |
Current Status of Liver Transplantation in Asia |
K C Tan |
| 76. |
Deep Venous Thrombosis in a Young Woman |
Subhash Varma |
| 77. |
Clinical Approach to Isolated Splenomegaly |
Manoranjan Mahapatra, Pravas Mishra,
Rajat Kumar |
| 78. |
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: A Paradigm of Successful Targeted Therapy |
AK Tripathi |
| 79. |
Multiple Myeloma — Recent Advances and the Management of the Relapsed/Refractory Patient |
Hemant Malhotra |
| 80. |
Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia — Current Management Strategy |
PK Sasidharan |
| 81. |
Cancer Related Thrombophilia: Clinical Importance and Management Strategies |
Madhuchanda Kar |
| 82. |
The Role of Anti-D in the Management of Chronic and Secondary Forms of ITP |
Maurice Gilles Genereux |
| 83. |
Blood Component Therapy |
Jina Bhattacharrya, Sunu Lazar Cyriac |
| 84. |
Universal Work Precautions and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV Following Needle Stick Injury |
Alok Vashishtha, BB Rewari |
| 85. |
HIV-TB Coinfection: Nuts and Bolts |
Gautam Ahluwalia |
| 86. |
AIDS and the Lung |
Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Mitra,
Sounak Majumdar |
| 87. |
AIDS Wasting Syndrome: Current Concepts in Management |
Sanjeev Sinha, Mohammad Tahir |
| 88. |
HIV and Pregnancy |
Ketan K Mehta |
| 89. |
AIDS-Related* Malignancies |
Ronald T Mitsuyasu, Jay S Cooper |
| 90. |
Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection |
BB Rewari |
| 91. |
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome |
Madhukar Rai, Pankaj Goyal, Jaya Chakravorty, Shyam Sundar |
| 92. |
Isolated Systolic Hypertension |
PK Jain, Shailesh Kumar Srivastava |
| 93. |
Evolving Clinical Strategy in the Treatment of Hypertension |
TNC Padmanabhan |
| 94. |
Current Status of Diuretics in Management of Hypertension |
BK Sahay, RK Sahay, Manisha Sahay |
| 95. |
Hypertension in Patients with Renal Failure |
Anwer Salamat Khan, Shahzad F Haque |
| 96. |
Therapeutic Challenge of Resistant Hypertension — Indian Perspective |
SN Arya |
| 97. |
Community-acquired Bacterial Meningitis in Adults |
S Venkataraman, RM Dhamija |
| 98. |
Drug-resistant Typhoid Fever — Implications for Clinical Practice |
Tamilarasu Kadhiravan |
| 99. |
Sepsis in 2007 |
SR Mehta, Anuj Chawla, Rajiv Kumar |
| 100. |
Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Disease and Efficacy of Polysaccharide Vaccines in Adults |
Donald B Middleton |
| 101. |
Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults in India |
Kurien Thomas |
| 102. |
Abdominal Tuberculosis — Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Management |
SN Chugh, Vinesh Jain |
| 103. |
Introduction to the International Standards for TB Care |
LS Chauhan |
| 104. |
Recent Advances in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis |
Sandhya Kamath |
| 105. |
Leptospirosis — Recent Observations |
R Sajith Kumar |
| 106. |
Japanese Encephalitis — A Perspective |
AK Thacker |
| 107. |
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Dengue Shock Syndrome — Pertinent Issues in Management |
SK Sharma, Ashish Goel |
| 108. |
Chikungunya Fever |
Alladi Mohan, SK Sharma |
| 109. |
Malaria in India |
Dhanpat Kumar Kochar, Parmendra Sirohi, Sanjay Kumar Kochar |
| 110. |
Antimalarial Combinations — Current Clinical Practices |
Biranchi Narayan Mohapatra, CBK Mohanty |
| 111. |
Visceral Leishmaniasis: Current Concepts in Management |
Jaya Chakravorty, D Agrawal, N Agrawal, M Rai, Shyam Sundar |
| 112. |
Neurocysticercosis |
Ravindra Kumar Garg |
| 113. |
Opportunistic Fungal Infections |
Shyam Aggarwal |
| 114. |
Exudative Pleural Effusion: Approach to Management |
Ajit Venniyoor, Alok Banerjee |
| 115. |
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: The Challenge to Global Health |
Rita Sood, Ranjan |
| 116. |
Urinary Tract Infection: Key Points in Management |
Suchi, K Tripathi |
| 117. |
New Insights in Glomerulonephritis |
Neil Turner |
| 118. |
Chronic Kidney Disease: The Silent Killer |
Narendra M Dedhia |
| 119. |
Drug Dose Adjustment in Chronic Renal Diseases |
A Muruganathan |
| 120. |
Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease |
PS Ghalaut |
| 121. |
Optimizing Management of Seizure Disorders |
V Nagarajan |
| 122. |
Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke |
MV Padma Srivastava |
| 123. |
Recent Trends in Management of Migraine |
K Ravishankar |
| 124. |
Advances in the Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy |
Satish V Khadilkar, Rajesh Benny |
| 125. |
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage |
Pratap Sanchetee, NC Borah, Suresh Sanchetee |
| 126. |
Neurosyphilis |
Geeta A Khwaja |
| 127. |
Diagnosis and Management of CNS Metastases |
Mrinal Kanti Roy, Dipankar Sircar |
| 128. |
Approach to a Patient with a Potential Sleep Disorder |
Bhawani Singh |
| 129. |
Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
SK Sharma, Alladi Mohan |
| 130. |
Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome |
Dheeraj Gupta, Ajay Handa |
| 131. |
Care Guidelines for Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) |
Falguni S Parikh |
| 132. |
Role of Immunomodulators in the Management of MDR-TB |
Agam C Vora |
| 133. |
Is It Asthma or COPD? |
Amalkumar Bhattacharya |
| 134. |
Management of COPD — A Clinical Scenario |
Jaising Phadtare |
| 135. |
Finding the Correct Inhaled Corticosteroid Dose in Asthma |
Randeep Guleria, Anant Mohan |
| 136. |
Safety of Long-Acting Beta-Agonists |
SP Rai |
| 137. |
Optimal Management of Difficult Asthma |
DG Jain, GB Jain, RK Singal |
| 138. |
Pneumothorax |
Anita Sharma |
| 139. |
Pregnancy and Jaundice |
Pritam Gupta, Sunil Mangla, Ankur Gupta,
Rakesh Gupta |
| 140. |
Management of Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy |
Jagdish S Hiremath |
| 141. |
Thromboembolic Diseases in Pregnancy |
Vinay Goel, Vineeta Taneja, Sanjay Gogia,
Sanjay Dhall |
| 142. |
Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis — State-of-the-Art |
Annil Mahajan, Vishal R Tandon, Kulbir Singh |
| 143. |
Biotechnology Solutions for Inflammatory Arthritides — RA and SPA |
Prakash K Pispati |
| 144. |
Management of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus |
R Handa |
| 145. |
Pulmonary Vasculitides |
URK Rao |
| 146. |
Approach to ANCA Interpretation |
VR Joshi, Aparna Rao |
| 147. |
Uncensored Saga of Interventional Rheumatology |
Ved Chaturvedi |
| 148. |
Update on Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) |
Debashish Danda |
| 149. |
Is There a Higher Risk of Thrombotic Vascular Events due to NSAIDs? |
Rajan Madhok |
| 150. |
Emerging Vistas in Osteoporosis Treatment: Newer Bisphosphonates and Biologics |
G Narsimulu, Jugal Kishore |
| 151. |
Metabolic Bone Disease (Past, Present and Future Challenges in the Management) |
SNA Rizvi |
| 152. |
Management of Gout — A Rational Approach |
Subir Kumar Banerjee |
| 153. |
Consent — Its Medico-legal Aspects |
Anil Chaturvedi |
| 154. |
Demise of Physical Examination |
AP Jain, Jitendra Ingole |
| 155. |
Pre-operative Evaluation for Non-Cardiac Surgery |
Ambika Mohanty |
| 156. |
Medical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Enlargement |
RSK Sinha |
| 157. |
Importance of Travel Medicine in Today’s Global Village |
Sanjay K Bandyopadhyay |
| 158. |
Micronutrients in Health and Disease |
NK Singh |
| 159. |
Obesity Diets — Fact or Fiction |
Shilpa Joshi |
| 160. |
Sleep Deprivation — A Modern Epidemic |
S Ramnathan Iyer, Revati R Iyer |
| 161. |
Hypothermia — Recognition and Treatment |
MP Singh, Anil Kumar, Anil Gupta |
| 162. |
Biomedical Waste Management: A Step Towards A Healthy Future |
Kamlesh Tewary, Vijay Kumar, Pamit Tiwary |
| 163. |
Next Generation Drug Eluting Stents |
Atul Mathur, Sanjeev Sharma |
| Index |
