Bhagya MANOJ Sattigeri

• Doctor of Medicine
• Head of Faculty at Banas Medical College & Research Institute PalanpurGujarat

Diabetes Mellitus is a common condition affecting individuals of either gender. The onset has been observed at early age making it more difcult to differentiate between type I & type II. This health problem has added to the global burden and would further contribute to the health expenses as it is expected to increase with the global prevalence to...

Hyperuricemia & gout are disease conditions marked by over production and reduced excretion of uric acid. These conditions are linked with unhealthy lifestyle, Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolic syndrome, Cardiovascular & Chronic renal disease. Thus controlling & monitoring uric acid level becomes important. Development in the technology ha...

Introduction: Children are major consumers of health services succumb to respiratory infections which are the common cause of morbidity in them. Drug therapy is a major component of pediatrics management in health care settings. Effective medical treatment of pediatric patient is based upon an accurate diagnosis and optimum course of therapy, which...

Introduction: Bronchial asthma is a heterogenous disease in children. It often leads to acute exacerbations resulting in increased Emergency Department (ED) visits, hospital admissions and school absenteeism among them. Irrational prescribing practices are quite prevalent among children. This highlights the importance of Drug Utilisation Studies (D...

Aim & Objective:The study aimed to evaluate the disease pattern, drugs used & the prescribing patterns to the geriatric patients at rural hospital. Materials and Methods: A total of 300 patients were enrolled in the prospective, cross sectional study. The demographic details, drugs used condition for which the drugs were prescribed and other relate...

Background: Diabetes is a major public health problem both in developing and non-developing countries across the world. It is a chronic disease, which in long term causes several complications resulting in poly pharmacy for its management. Hence, this study was determined to analyze the drug utilization pattern for the management of type 2 diabetes...

Abstract Antimicrobials are widely used in surgical patients, for prophylaxis and treatment of infections. Common problems associated with their use include, the antimicrobials resistance and adverse drug reactions. The prospective study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of adverse drug reactions due to antimicrobials in surgical cases. A total of...

Background: This study was aimed to analyze the drug utilization pattern in the management of hypertension in diabetic patients.Methods: A prospective, observational and non interventional study was conducted in 100 diabetic hypertensive patients admitted in medicine wards at Dhiraj Hospital. Patients who signed informed consent form were only incl...

Translational Pharmacology is a newly evolved branch as an extension of clinical pharmacology. Translational Pharmacology aims to move the results of the molecular pharmacological research to the patient level, which is focussed on developing the new drug that correlates with the patient needs. The basic objective is to study the changing trends fr...

Background: Liver is the main detoxifying organ, which is affected by most of the drugs and xenobiotic agents that could result in liver damage. The present study was designed to evaluate the hepatoprotective effect of DL-Methionine against experimentally induced liver injury in albino rats.Methods: Hepatotoxicity was induced by administering high...

Pediatric asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses in childhood and affects the quality of life in children. Anti-asthmatic drugs used in children may result in a variety of adverse drug reactions (ADR) and could contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality. Several studies report about the safety of asthma medications in adults bu...

Background: Anemia is a condition in which numbers of red blood cells or their oxygen carrying capacity is insufficient to meet the physiologic needs which vary by age, sex, altitude, smoking and pregnancy status. Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia in the world. Aim of the study was to compare and evaluate awareness about anem...

Any medication used for diagnosis, prophylaxis or treatment of the patient is capable of producing an adverse reaction. Allergy is the most common unexpected adverse reaction; encountered with antibiotics, salicylates, ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors and radio-contrast materials. Combination of Diatrizoate Meglumine and Diatrizoate S...

Amoxicillin induced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN): a case report Each year many patients are hospitalized due to adverse drug reactions. Adverse reactions are the recognized hazards of drug therapy and they can occur with any class of drugs and many studies revealed that the incidence is more in case of antibiotics. Amoxicillin is a broad spectr...

Counterfeit drugs have emerged as a major global problem. This issue has been brought to the centre of the Indian media due to the death of 15 women attending a sterilization camp in Chhattisgarh. India’s pharmaceutical industry exports drugs worth 15 billion dollars, which means a high prevalence of counterfeiting in India’s drug industry has glob...

Telemedicine is an application of information technology in relation to patient health care, treatment, education, research, administration and the public health. It forms a potential bridge between the patient and doctor which ages a century with a good development in its growth. In developing countries like India with more than 60% of the populat...

Background: Diabetes a chronic disease is associated with significant morbidity, complications with poor glycemic control. Hence, meticulous management is necessary. Comorbid conditions increase chances of polypharmacy and irrational prescriptions in diabetic patients. This prospective non interventional study aimed to gather and study the drug uti...

Biologics are highly sensitive large molecules with complex structure, difficult to characterize and reproduce, derived from living cells; used for treatment, diagnosis or prevention of disease. Examples are therapeutic hormones, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies etc. Biologicals are beneficial in the management of several health conditions which wer...

Drug utilization studies may be defined as studies of the marketing, distribution, prescription and use of drugs in a society, with special emphasis on the resulting medical, social and economic consequences. Drug utilization studies can provide highly valuable information, at a reasonable price, on the costs and effects (harmful and beneficial) of...

Aim: The study was conducted to evaluate use of over the counter (OTC) drugs among the medical students, nursing and clerical staff of tertiary care teaching rural hospital to determine the awareness and disadvantages on use of OTC. Methods: Responses to a feedback questionnaire covering various aspects on usage of OTC drugs were obtained from 100...

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is defined as the recurrence of psychological and physical symptoms in the luteal phase, which remit in the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Symptoms of which fall in three domains: emotional, physical and behavioural e.g. irritability, anger, headache, fatigue, food cravings etc. The survey study of was conducte...

Introduction: The hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are the leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality. Management of preeclampsia and eclampsia remains controversial even today. Several drugs with different regimens are available at present. As a consequence; women are treated in various ways by different regimens. Aim: Our work aimed to...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common metabolic disorders that causes microvascular and macro vascular complications. No study has ever examined the effect of vitamin C with glibenclamide on fasting (FBS) and postprandial blood sugar (PPBS) as well as glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM...

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are the common problems faced in the setups like ICU where the poly pharmacy is involved in treating the patients. Control of such events is possible if the culpable drug is known or if it is identified and reported. However, reporting of adverse drug reactions still remains in its infancy for problems in many. Awarene...

Epilepsy is a common and frequently devastated disorder affecting 0.5 to 1% of the population with annual incidence rate of approximately 30 to 50 per 1, 00,000 per year. Lacosamide is a novel anti-epileptic drug, recently been licensed for adjunctive therapy of partial or secondary generalized seizures. Objective: To evaluate dose dependent effica...

Sodium valproate, a broad spectrum antiepileptic drug elevates the brain gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) levels by various mechanisms. Valproate at 200 -500mg/kg induces wet dog shake (WDS) behavior in rats. The WDS behavior in rats and head twitch responses (HTR) in mice is evoked by 5- hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin), the 5-HT precursor, the...

Sodium valproate a broad spectrum antiepileptic, elevates the brain GABA levels. Studies have suggested a regulatory role of GABA on Dopaminergic neurons. Behavioural studies in animals have provided additional interaction between GABAergic and DAergic systems. Hypofuntioning of nigrostriatal DAergic system in rats is responsible for induction of c...