Tamilisetti Vidya Sagar

Objective: To compare vitamin D with placebo in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in terms of clinical improvement and sputum conversion. Materials And Methods: This is a prospective randomized, double blind, placebo controlled comparative study conducted for a period of 12 weeks in a tertiary care centre in south India. Total Subjects were 60 n...

Regional anesthesia, like Peripheral nerve block, is commonly used for peripheral surgeries to reduce severe intraoperative and postoperative pain relief. .Some studies with levobupivacaine have shown that duration of analgesia of levobupivacaine are longer compared to that of an equivalent dose of bupivacaine or ropivacaine.This study is done to c...

Objective: The objective of the study is to compare dexmedetomidine with clonidine as adjuvants to ropivacaine in epidural anesthesia in the onset of sensory and motor blockade, duration of post-operative analgesia, level of sedation, and occurrence of side effects. Methods: This study was a prospective randomized observational and comparative stud...

Objective To investigate socioeconomic and demographic risk factors in gestational diabetes mellitus and to evaluate health related risk factors like age and pre-pregnancy BMI in a tertiary care centre in south India. Materials and methods Hospital based non-interventional observational study, BMI and blood pressure are considered as health related...

To study prevalence of LADA in type2 diabetes patients and evaluate characteristics of patients with LADA. This is cross-sectional observational study, conducted in a tertiary care hospital in South India; once consultation by physician was over, diabetic patients were screened for study criteria; written informed consent was taken from all partici...

Safety and efficacy of nadifloxacin versus clindamycin observed in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Deccan Plateau

In a student academic learning process, process of plagiarism starts very early from preparation for assessment, followed by seminar presentation. This plagiaristic research practice knowingly or unknowingly gets inculcated in student as habit. Studies published on ethics in research practice until now are from developed nations where ethics in res...

To evaluate safety and efficacy of Gabapentin and Duloxetine in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy. This is a prospective randomized double blinded parallel group study done for a period of 12 weeks. Total of 60 patients were enrolled and randomly allocated to two groups with 30 patients each, group A received Duloxetine 30 mg twice daily an...

ABSTRACT Objective: The objective of the study is to compare dexmedetomidine with clonidine as adjuvants to ropivacaine in epidural anesthesia in the onset of sensory and motor blockade, duration of post-operative analgesia, level of sedation, and occurrence of side effects. Methods: This study was a prospective randomized observational and compara...

Objective: The Purpose of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical students in a tertiary care centre. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted at Prakash Medical college and Hospital, Islampur, Kolhapur, Maharastra. The approval for conducting this study was obtained from the Institutional...

Introduction: Thyroid disorders are very common in females and are known to prevent ovulation. Thyroid disorders can impact menstrual cycles and causes menstrual irregularities and infertility in females. Aim: To determine effects of hypothyroidism on menstrual cycle pattern and prevalence of subfertility among women having thyroid dysfunction. Mat...

Objective: The Purpose of this study is to evaluate prescribing pattern of drugs to prevent progression of nephropathy in patients of diabetes in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: It was conducted in a tertiary care hospital, written informed consent was taken from those patients, who fulfilled study criteria and study sample include...

Several factors may affect identification and treatment of erectile dysfunction by health care providers, this study evaluates prescribing pattern of PDE-5 inhibitors and assess effectiveness of Sildenafil and Tadalafil in patients with erectile dysfunction. This is a descriptive and observational study, observed participants without providing any...

Cases of diarrhoea and prescribing patterns

Sore throat is a common presentation in outdoor patient setting, mostcases of sore throat are viral in aetiology and do not require antibiotics, it is a common practice to prescribe antibiotics to all patients presenting with sore throat without identifying aetiology, purpose of this study was to determine antimicrobial prescription pattern in pati...

diarrhoea in children

Objective: The objective of the study was to assess and compare the efficacy and tolerability of flupirtine versus tramadol in patients with chronic moderate low back pain (LBP). Materials and Methods: A prospective study was conducted in the outpatient department of orthopaedics at tertiary care hospital, Rajamahendravarm. After meeting the inclus...

Introduction: To know adverse drug reactions when Aspirin is prescribed with Antihypertensive medications. Materials and Methods: Prospective observational study conducted in a tertiary care hospital, total 60 patients of age group 18 to 65 years were included in the study, It is a 12 week study, clinical examination done at enrollment and with sub...

Objective: To investigate antibiotic prescribing pattern in bacterial, viral and allergic conjunctivitis in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: Prospective-open labelled, non-interventional observational study, total 100 patients were recruited for the study, all antibiotics prescribed were recorded including dosage form, frequency and...