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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.

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

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

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

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.