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Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar
Researcher at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram
Publications - 12
Citations - 248
Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar is an academic researcher from Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis & Pancreatitis. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 12 publications receiving 230 citations.
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Chronic pancreatitis. A prospective nationwide study of 1,086 subjects from India.
Vallath Balakrishnan,Ambika Gopalakrishnan Unnikrishnan,Varghese Thomas,Gourdas Choudhuri,Peda Veeraraju,Shivram Prasad Singh,Pramod Kumar Garg,Cannore Ganesh Pai,Raveendranathan Nair Sobhana Devi,Deepak K. Bhasin,Venkataraman Jayanthi,Narayanan Premalatha,Ashok Chacko,Premashish Kar,Ramesh Roop Rai,Ramesh Rajan,Narayanan Subhalal,Rajiv Mehta,Sri Prakash Mishra,Manisha Dwivedi,Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar,Ashok Kumar Jain,Kalidas Biswas,Sunil K Mathai,Jaison Varghese,H. Ramesh,Thomas Alexander,Jacob Philip,Vigna Venugopal Raj,Ankarath Vinodkumar,Srikanth Mukevar,Prabha Sawant,Prem Nair,Harish Kumar,Surendran Sudhindran,Puneet Dhar,Othayil Vayoth Sudheer,Karimassery Ramaiyer Sundaram,Bailuru Vishwanath Tantri,Devinder Singh,Thekkayil Rajindra Nath +40 more
TL;DR: In this first nationwide prospective survey of chronic pancreatitis in India, idiopathic pancreatitis was the most common form, followed by alcoholic pancreatitis, and the classical form of tropical Chronic pancreatitis is becoming less common.
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Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with liver cirrhosis: prevalence and association with portal hypertensive gastropathy
Shanid Abdul Sathar,Sojan George Kunnathuparambil,Srijaya Sreesh,Premaletha Narayanan,Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar +4 more
TL;DR: There is significant association between H. pylori infection and PHG in cirrhotic patients which is also related to severity of PHG.
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Risk factors of cellulitis in cirrhosis and antibiotic prophylaxis in preventing recurrence
Rooby Erachamveettil Hamza,Mashhood Padincharepurathu Villyoth,George Peter,Deni Joseph,Chethan Govindaraju,Devang Tank,Sreejaya Sreesh,P. R. Narayanan,Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar +8 more
TL;DR: Hypoalbuminemia, and high MELD score are the risk factors for cellulitis in cirrhosis, and Antibiotic prophylaxis can reduce the recurrence of cellulitis as in the case of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
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Imatinib-induced pancreatitis
TL;DR: A middle-aged man with chronic myeloid leukemia who developed acute pancreatitis after being initiated on imatinib mesylate is presented.
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Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
Sojan George Kunnathuparambil,Shanid Abdul Sathar,Devang Tank,Srijaya Sreesh,Madhav Mukunda,Premaletha Narayanan,Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar +6 more
TL;DR: A case of splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis who was earlier misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and underwent anti-tuberculosis therapy is reported and his symptoms subsided following treatment.