Anil Thimmiah Kumar

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What is the role of T regulatory lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of Dengue fever?

There is lot of variation in the outcome of patients with Dengue fever with wide variations in the clinical picture and platelet counts.There are no fixed guidelines regarding management and no...

28 July 2015 327 3 View

What other virus will cause a dengue like clinical picture in south India.?

We are seeing lot of viral thrombocytopenic fevers which test negative for Dengue serology and even PCR but have a clinical picture similar to Dengue.

26 July 2015 6,162 10 View

Should echocardiographic examination be part of bedside clinical cardiology teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine?

The incidence of asymptomatic valvular lesions is very high and many of them require management based on echo findings.The positive and negative predictive values of cardiac clinical findings is...

28 January 2015 7,292 22 View

Are there any outcome trials supporting the use of alternate day statins in patients unable to tolerate daily statin?

Lot of practitioners use alternate day statins in patients unable to tolerate daily statins. I feel there is no pharmacological or physiologic basis for the same.However lot of patients complain...

08 December 2014 2,801 4 View

What is the effect of cognitive bias in the diagnosis of medical disorders ?

Cognitive bias among caregivers is well known entity and literature is available regarding psychiatric disorders.I would like to know if there are any studies where they have studied the effect of...

18 November 2014 9,125 4 View