| Foreword |
YP Munjal |
From the Desk of Chairperson, Scientific Committee and
President Elect, API |
A Muruganathan |
| Message of Vice-Chancellor, The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University |
D Shantharam |
| SECTION 1: Infectious Diseases |
| 1. |
Amoebiasis |
K VGK Tilak |
| 2. |
Indian Guidelines and Protocols: Malaria |
BN Mohapatra, CBK Mohanty |
| 3. |
Indian Scenario of Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis |
Suma TK |
| 4. |
Human Trypanosomiasis in India: Is it an Emerging New Zoonosis? |
Prashant P Joshi |
| 5. |
Melioidosis: The Great Mimicker |
R Chandni |
| 6. |
Scrub Typhus |
V Ramasubramanian, P Senthur Nambi |
| 7. |
Indian Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Human Leptospirosis |
S Shiva Kumar |
| 8. |
Chikungunya: Indian Guidelines and Protocols |
R Sajith Kumar |
| 9. |
Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus: An Update |
Isaac Christian Moses |
| 10. |
Recent Evidences in the Management of Nosocomial Infections |
NK Soni, Vishal Wadhwa, Kush Ohri |
| 11. |
Approach to the Patient with Fever of Unknown Origin |
V Shantaram, AMVR Narendra |
| 12. |
Fever in the Immunocompromised Host |
Mangesh Tiwaskar |
| 13. |
Atypical Mycobacterial Infection |
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| SECTION 2: HIV |
| 14. |
HIV/AIDS in India: Journey So Far and the Road Ahead |
BB Rewari |
| 15. |
Burden of Opportunistic Infections in HIV/AIDS Patients in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era: A Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal Perspective |
S Bhagyabati Devi, Robinson Ningshen, Arvind G |
| 16. |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Pregnancy |
PK Agrawal, Vishal Parmar |
| SECTION 3: Hypertension |
| 17. |
Practical Guidelines for Hypertension Management |
NR Rau, Satish K Nayak |
| 18. |
Does Your First Line Antihypertensive Reduce Death?—
The Untold Story of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Blockers |
JS Bhuvaneswaran |
| 19. |
Choosing a Diuretic in Hypertension: To Follow Instinct or Evidence |
Tiny Nair |
| 20. |
Sex and Hypertension |
AK Pancholia |
| 21. |
Interventions in Hypertension |
Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Anuj A Sathe,
Anup R Taksande |
| SECTION 4: Cardiology |
| 22. |
Lead aVR: The Neglected Lead |
M Chenniappan |
| 23. |
Exploring Pathophysiology of Acute Coronary Syndrome for Novel Biomarkers |
Vinod K Shah, Kavita K Shalia |
| 24. |
Critical Analysis of Various Drugs Used for Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction |
Gurpreet Singh Wander, Shibba Takkar Chhabra |
| 25. |
Newer Advances in Coronary Intervention |
G Sengottuvelu |
| 26. |
Advances in Management of Heart Failure and What can we do in India? |
KM Cherian, AG Narayanaswamy |
| 27. |
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension |
Gandharba Ray, L Ravi Kumar |
| 28. |
Cardiac Issues with Noncardiac Surgery |
A Kader Sahib |
| 29. |
Infective Endocarditis: Indian Scenario |
Rajeev Gupta |
| 30. |
Understanding Cardiomyopathy: Practical Guidelines |
Asha Moorthy, Jain T Kallarakkal |
| 31. |
Contemporary Management of Sudden Cardiac Death |
SN Narasingan |
| SECTION 5: Diabetology |
| 32. |
The Double Burden of Tuberculosis and Diabetes in India |
A Muruganathan, Vijay Viswanathan |
| 33. |
Clinical Approach to Diabetes in the Young in India |
V Mohan, A Amutha, H Ranjani, RM Anjana,
Ranjit Unnikrishnan |
| 34. |
Diabetes Prevention: Translating Science into Practice |
Mayur Patel |
| 35. |
Guidelines on Inpatient Management of Hyperglycemia |
Sukhminderjit Singh Bajwa, Manash P Baruah, Sanjay Kalra, Mukul Chandra Kapoor |
| 36. |
Addressing the Glucose Triad for Comprehensive Glycemic Control |
Binayak Sinha |
| 37. |
Hemoglobin A1c: Consensus and Controversy |
Anil Kumar Virmani |
| 38. |
Stress Hyperglycemia |
Anand Moses |
| 39. |
Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults |
Banshi Saboo |
| 40. |
Type 2 Diabetes in India: Challenges and Possible Solutions |
Ambady Ramachandran, Ananth Samith Shetty,
Arun Nanditha, Chamukuttan Snehalatha |
| 41. |
Hypoglycemia and its Impact in Diabetes |
SM Sadikot |
| 42. |
Suggested Protocols for Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in India |
Ranjit Unnikrishnan, V Mohan |
| 43. |
Continuous Glucose Monitoring System |
Johny Jose Kannampilly |
| 44. |
Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Indian Guidelines |
Seshiah V, Sahay BK, Das AK, Balaji V,
Siddharth Shah, Samar Banerjee,
A Muruganathan, Rao PV, Ammini A,
Shahsank R Joshi, Sunil Gupta, Sanjay Gupte, Hema Divakar, Sujata Misra, Uday Thanawala, Vitull K Gupta, Navneet Magon |
| 45. |
Economic Burden of Diabetes |
Jitendra Singh |
| 46. |
National Recommendations: Psychosocial Management of Diabetes
in India |
Sanjay Kalra, GR Sridhar, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Rakesh Kumar Sahay |
| 47. |
Anesthesia in Diabetic Patients |
G Vijayakumar |
| 48. |
Infections in Diabetes Mellitus |
BK Sahay |
| 49. |
Need for National Guidelines for Diabetes and Related Disorders |
Usha Shrivastava, Anoop Mishra |
| 50. |
Delivering an Effective Foot Care for People with Diabetes |
Vijay Viswanathan |
| 51. |
Indian National Consensus Group: National Guidelines on Initiation and Intensification of Insulin Therapy with Premixed Insulin Analogs |
Ashok Kumar Das, Binode Kumar Sahay,
V Seshiah, V Mohan, A Muruganathan, Ajay Kumar, Vijay Viswanathan, CR Anand Moses, Banshi Saboo, Sarita Bajaj, Sanjay Kalra,
AG Unnikrishnan, Manash P Baruah, Samit Ghosal, Awadhesh Kumar Singh,
Muralidhar S Rao, Ranjit Unnikrishnan,
S Nallaperumal, JS Kumar, V Balaji,
Arthur J Asirvatham, Bipin Kumar Sethi,
Rakesh Kumar Sahay, T Dhinakaran,
Shailaja Kale, M Shanmugavelu and others on behalf of INCG Group |
| 52. |
Biopharmaceuticals and Biosimilars: A Consensus Statement |
Seshiah V, Das AK, Sethi BK, Moses CRA, Kumar A, Viswanathan V, Joshi SR, Balaji V, Sahay RK, Kalra S, Saboo B, Singh AK, Ghosal S, Zargar AH, Muruganathan A |
| SECTION 6: Gastroenterology |
| 53. |
Indian Guidelines and Protocols: Hepatitis B |
AC Anand, Pankaj Puri |
| 54. |
What is New in Hepatology? |
Natarajan Ravendhran |
| 55. |
Guidelines for Assessment and Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Indians |
Shivaram Prasad Singh, Manas Kumar Panigrahi |
| 56. |
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Indian Scenario |
Rajesh Upadhyay, Aesha Singh |
| 57. |
Prebiotics and Probiotics: A Critical Analysis |
Vijay Prakash |
| 58. |
Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed |
Divij Mehta, Ajay Kumar |
| 59. |
Management of Acute Pancreatitis: Indian Guidelines and Protocols |
Rakesh K Tandon |
| 60. |
Management Strategies in Chronic Pancreatitis |
Vinita Chaudhary, Surinder Singh Rana, Chalapathi Rao, Deepak Kumar Bhasin |
| 61. |
Hope at the End of the Tunnel |
TS Chandrasekar, BJ Gokul, TC Vivek Sandeep |
| 62. |
Capsule Endoscopy: Newer Vistas |
VG Mohan Prasad |
| SECTION 7: Endocrinology |
| 63. |
Guidelines for Management of Thyroid Nodules in Adults: Towards a Consensus |
Unnikrishnan AG |
| 64. |
Hypothyroidism: Treatment Issues |
RV Jayakumar |
| 65. |
Cushing’s Syndrome: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management |
KJ Shetty, R Spurgeon |
| 66. |
Hirsutism: Indian Scenario |
AR Vijaya Kumar, VR Thilagavathy, Pavan Soleti |
| 67. |
Pituitary Incidentalomas |
Nihal Thomas, Dukha Bandhu Naik |
| 68. |
Endocrine Emergencies |
Shyam Kalavalapalli |
| 69. |
Algorithmic Approach for the Diagnosis of Polyuria |
RVSN Sarma |
| SECTION 8: Reproduction and Sexual Medicine |
| 70. |
Female Sexual Dysfunction: Indian Scenario |
Navneet Magon, Monica Chauhan, Bharti Kalra |
| 71. |
Sexual Health at 40 |
Deepak K Jumani |
| 72. |
Andropause: The Missing Health |
Uttam Kumar Paul, Anup Kr Bhattacharyya,
Salil Kumar Pal |
| 73. |
Medical Management of Male Infertility |
RK Sahay, J Nagender Reddy |
| SECTION 9: Women’s Health Care |
| 74. |
Innovations to Implementation: Initiatives that have Made an Impact |
Hema Divakar |
| 75. |
Women’s Health in Ramadan |
Sarita Bajaj, Afreen Khan |
| SECTION 10: Hematology |
| 76. |
Cerebral Vein Thrombosis |
PK Sasidharan |
| 77. |
Methemoglobinemia: A Reappraisal with an Indian Perspective |
SV Ramanamurty |
| 78. |
Indian Guidelines for Febrile Neutropenia |
Madhuchanda Kar, Roy Rakesh |
| 79. |
Diagnosis and Management of Acute Myeloid Leukemia |
Vikram Mathews |
| 80. |
Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Multiple Myeloma:
An Update |
PS Ghalaut, Soumik Chaudhuri, Ragini Singh |
| 81. |
Indian Guidelines and Protocols in Oncology: Solid Tumors and Hematological Malignancies |
Purvish M Parikh |
| 82. |
Aplastic Anemia, Apoptosis and Telomeres: Insight into Missing Link
and Clinical Implications |
Sudhir Mehta, Sandhya Gulati, Nidhi Sharma |
| SECTION 11: Therapeutics |
| 83. |
The Chennai Declaration: A Call to Action! |
A Muruganathan |
| 84. |
Roadmap: To Tackle the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance |
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi PR,
Priyadarshini Kannaian, A Muruganathan |
| 85. |
Targeted Nanomedicine and Smart Drugs |
Mukesh Doble |
| 86. |
Newer Anti-TB Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems |
Alladi Mohan, D Prabath Kumar, J Harikrishna |
| 87. |
Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice: Role of Sulfonylureas in
Today’s Practice |
Brij Mohan Makkar, Deepak Gupta, Ajay Gainda |
| 88. |
Evolution of Gliptins over the Last 5 Years |
Apurba Kumar Mukherjee |
| 89. |
Differentiating Incretin-based Therapies: Progress and Promise of
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists |
Ajay Kumar |
| 90. |
Oral Anticoagulants: Current Indian Scenario |
Gopalakrishnan S, Srinivasan Narayanan |
| 91. |
Antioxidants are Useful |
Jayanta K Panda, Rudrasish Samal |
| SECTION 12: Toxicology |
| 92. |
Indian Guidelines and Protocols: Bee Sting |
Tarun Kumar Dutta, V Mukta |
| 93. |
Scorpion Envenomation: What is New? |
B Rama Chandra Reddy |
| 94. |
Snake Bite: Indian Guidelines and Protocol |
Surjit Singh, Gagandip Singh |
| 95. |
Current Concepts in the Management of Organophosphorus
Compound Poisoning |
V Palaniappen |
| SECTION 13: Rheumatology |
| 96. |
Fibromyalgia: Does it Exist? If so, What is the Management? |
V Nagaraajan |
| 97. |
Monitoring of Patients on Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drugs |
Ved Chaturvedi |
| 98. |
Gout in Indian Scenario |
Arup Kumar Kundu |
| 99. |
Redefining Lupus in 2012 |
Subramanian Shankar, Maj Abhishek Pathak |
| 100. |
Scleroderma: From Therapeutic Nihilism to Therapeutic Optimism |
Satyabrata Ganguly, Rajan Palui |
| SECTION 14: Immunology |
| 101. |
Adult Immunization |
Asha N Shah |
| 102. |
Travel Immunizations |
Lavanya Nutankalva |
| SECTION 15: Pulmonology |
| 103. |
Therapeutic Options for Uncontrolled Asthma |
Agam Vora |
| 104. |
Sleep Disordered Breathing Disorders |
Surendra K Sharma, Kriti Khanna,
Abhishek Sharma |
| 105. |
Management of Tuberculosis: Indian Guidelines |
Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva |
| 106. |
Pulmonary Manifestations of Tropical Parasitic Diseases |
Gursaran Sidhu |
| 107. |
Uncommon Presentations of a Common Disease: Tuberculosis |
VP Gopinathan |
| 108. |
Pulmonary Thromboembolism: Indian Scenario |
BNBM Prasad |
| 109. |
Diagnosis and Management of Interstitial Lung Disease |
Kesavan Kutty |
| 110. |
Nanotechnology at Work: Photocatalytic Oxygenation of Blood |
Paul Ramesh T, Subrahmanyam A,
Albert Jayakumar |
| 111. |
High Altitude Mountain Sickness |
Vinay K Rampal |
| SECTION 16: Neurology |
| 112. |
Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Physician’s Perspective |
PK Maheshwari, A Pandey |
| 113. |
Clinical Approach to a Patient with Headache |
Gurubax Singh, Pritam Gupta, Ankur Gupta, Manoj Khanal |
| 114. |
Practical Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Insomnia |
SN Arya, K Rajiv, R Singh |
| 115. |
Differential Diagnosis and Evaluation of Sleepiness |
Debajyoti Bhattacharyya, Madhu Sudan Barthwal,
Chandan Dev Singh Katoch, Puneet Saxeena |
| 116. |
Indian Guidelines on Epilepsy |
Mrinal Kanti Roy, Dhiman Das |
| 117. |
Convulsive Status Epilepticus: Treatment |
JMK Murthy |
| 118. |
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome |
Gautam Bhandari |
| 119. |
A Clinical Approach to Tremor |
Dilip Kumar Jha, Anupam Kumar Singh |
| 120. |
Multiple Sclerosis: Indian Perspective |
Salil Gupta, AK Tewari, Velu Nair |
| 121. |
Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Paresis: Spectrum of Neuromyopathies |
Mathew Alexander |
| 122. |
Managing Critically Ill Patients with AIDP: Relevance of International Guidelines to Indian Scenario |
B Vengamma |
| 123. |
Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: What is New? |
Prafulla G Kerkar, Srivallabh Karlekar,
Vinay Jaiswal |
| 124. |
Parkinson’s Disease: Medical Management |
N Balamurugan, M Vivekanandan |
| 125. |
Management of Neurogenic Pain: Indian Perspectives |
K Bhanu, K Bharani, LA Ravi, AV Srinivasan |
| 126. |
Brain Failure: Some Lessons |
K Srinivasan |
| SECTION 17: Nephrology |
| 127. |
Urinalysis in Clinical Practice |
Sekhar Chakraborty |
| 128. |
Acute Glomerulonephritis: Evidence-based Management |
MR Mazumder |
| 129. |
Acute Renal Failure in India |
N Mohandas |
| 130. |
Chronic Kidney Disease: Current Status, Challenges and Management in India |
Ilangovan Veerappan, Georgi Abraham |
| 131. |
Emerging Biomarkers of Kidney Injury |
AM Bhagwati |
| 132. |
Cardiorenal Syndrome: An Overview |
NP Singh, Anish Kumar, Taposh Sarkar |
| 133. |
Fluid Therapy in Medical Disorders |
Sanjay Pandya |
| 134. |
Newer Insight in the Management of Hyponatremia: Role of Aquaretics/Vaptans |
Mujahid Beg |
| SECTION 18: Metabolic Disorders |
| 135. |
Inborn Errors of Metabolism: Disorder of Adults? |
Kothiwale VA, Varun Kumar B |
| 136. |
Vitamin D Treatment Guidelines |
Michael F Holick |
| 137. |
Short Stature: Evaluation and Management |
Preetam Nath, Jitendra Kumar, SK Hammadur Rahman, Madhukar Rai |
| SECTION 19: Nutrition |
| 138. |
Diet as Medicine |
Sonia Arora, Vitull K Gupta, Meghna Gupta |
| 139. |
Methylcobalamin Versus Cyanocobalamin |
Y Bhasker |
| 140. |
Cooking Oils in Health and Disease |
Shilpa Joshi, Shashank R Joshi |
| 141. |
Nutrition in ICU: An Overview |
Ketan K Mehta |
| 142. |
Genetically Modified Foods: Impact on Human Health— Boon or Bane? |
Anupam Prakash |
| SECTION 20: Legal Medicine |
| 143. |
Ethics in Legal Issues: Do’s and Don’ts |
TN Ravisankar |
| 144. |
Landmark Judgments Relating to Medilaw |
B Cheran |
| SECTION 21: Medical Education |
| 145. |
Empowering Doctors for the Twenty-First Century by Education |
Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair AM |
| 146. |
Major Reforms in Medical Education for an Interdependent World of 21st Century |
Pradeep Mishra |
| SECTION 22: General |
| 147. |
The Whole Patient and not Part of Him or Her in Clinical Examination |
KV Thiruvengadam |
| 148. |
My Tryst with Experience-based Medicine |
GS Sainani |
| SECTION 22: General |
| 149. |
Hippocratic Oath: Revisiting in the Present Medical Scenario |
Mukti Bhatnagar, Abhishek Gupta |
| 150. |
A Sound Mind in a Body: How True is it? Can Doctors Play
an Effective Role in this? |
Ashutosh Ojha |
| 151. |
Who will Care for the Doctor’s Health? |
Surendra Daga |
| 152. |
Computer-related Illnesses and Facebook Syndrome:
What are they and How do we Tackle them? |
Vitull K Gupta, Sonia Arora, Meghna Gupta |
| 153. |
Global Warming: Impact on Global Health and on the
Indian Health Scenario in Particular |
Maheshwari S, Basavaraj GT |
| 154. |
Medical Tourism: Will this Help India’s Health? |
T Ravikumar |
| 155. |
Future of Small Hospitals in India |
Anand Kate |
| 156. |
Diversity of Culture: Its Influence on Health Care (Indian Scenario) |
V Venugopal |
| 157. |
Use of Smartphones and its Applications in Medical Practice |
SV Kulkarni, Chitra S Kulkarni, Om S Kulkarni, Aditya S Kulkarni |
| 158. |
Role of Physician in an Era of Superspecialization |
Alok Gupta |
| 159. |
Quo Vadis Medicine… The Road Ahead for Physicians |
E Prabhu |
| 160. |
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Review |
DJ Borah |
| 161. |
Modern Medicine… Hope Or Hype |
Anil Chaturvedi |
| 162. |
Effective Utilization of Web Search Engines: An Approach for Medical Practitioners |
RP Pareek |
| 163. |
Emerging Role of High-Tech Medicine |
Asif Hasan, Muhammad Uwais Ashraf |
| 164. |
India Needs Clinical not the High-Tech Medicine |
Jotideb Mukhopadhyay, Anup Sarkar,
Apratim Chatterjee |
| 165 |
Approach to Low Back Pain |
Vikram A Londhey |
| SECTION 23: Molecular Medicine |
| 166 |
Advances in Genomics and Proteomics: Their Role in Future of Molecular Medicine |
Harsha Gowda |
| 167 |
Molecular Medicine Demystified |
Nikhil Moorchung |
| SECTION 24: Radiology and Nuclear Medicine |
| 168 |
Changing Strategy in the Management of CAD with Cardiac SPECT and PET Myocardial Perfusion Studies |
BR Mittal |
| 169 |
Empowering the Physicians with Radioisotopes in Clinically Challenging Situations |
Shrikant Solav |
| 170 |
Empowerment of Physicians to Evaluate the Molecular Dynamics in the Body with Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography |
PK Pradhan, S Jain |
| 171 |
Cutting Edge 3 Tesla Cardiac MRI: How can it Benefit to Patients and Physicians? |
Alpa Hemant Bharati, Suleman A Merchant |
| 172 |
Guidelines for Bariatric (Metabolic) Surgery for Indian Population |
P Praveen Raj, C Palanivelu |
| 173 |
The Growing Threat of Chronic Venous Disease |
Prakash Ramamoorthy |
| 174 |
Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer |
Karthik Ghosh, Amit Ghosh |
| 175 |
Role of Physician in Surgical Sepsis |
S Asokan |
| SECTION 26: Geriatrics |
| 176 |
Treatment of Sepsis and Related Syndromes in the Elderly:
Indian Scenario |
Yadati Sathyanarayana Raju |
| 177 |
Health Issues in Geriatrics |
Santosh B Salagre |
| SECTION 27: Case Studies |
| 178 |
An Interesting Case of Orange Colored Sweat |
SS Lakshmanan |
| 179 |
Interesting Cases: Discussion |
Sudha Vidya Sagar |
| 180 |
Endocrine Pictorial Continuing Medical Education |
Suresh Damodaran |
| SECTION 28: Quiz Program |
| 181 |
Clinical Pearls |
Sandeep P Tamane |
| 182 |
Empowering Environment |
T Geetha |
| 183 |
Space Medicine |
AS Mohan |
| 184 |
Sarcoidosis: An Update on Recent Advances |
Ghanshyam Pangtey, Gunjan Agarwal |
| 185 |
Xenoestrogens: The Curse of Civilization |
VN Mishra |
| Index |
