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Veena Menon
Researcher at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
Publications - 10
Citations - 431
Veena Menon is an academic researcher from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Dengue virus. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 364 citations.
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Voluntary medical male circumcision: modeling the impact and cost of expanding male circumcision for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa.
Emmanuel Njeuhmeli,Steven Forsythe,Jason Reed,Marjorie Opuni,Lori Bollinger,Nathan Heard,Delivette Castor,John Stover,Timothy M.M. Farley,Veena Menon,Catherine Hankins +10 more
TL;DR: It is found that reaching 80% coverage and maintaining it until 2025 would avert 3.36 million new HIV infections, and the impact and cost of scaling up adult medical male circumcision in 13 priority countries in eastern and southern Africa is estimated to be $1.3bn.
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Vitamin C Therapy for Routine Care in Septic Shock (ViCTOR) Trial: Effect of Intravenous Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone Administration on Inpatient Mortality among Patients with Septic Shock.
Zubair Umer Mohamed,Pratibha Prasannan,Merlin Moni,Fabia Edathadathil,Preetha Prasanna,Anup Menon,Sabarish Nair,C R Greeshma,Dipu Sathyapalan,Veena Menon,Vidya Menon +10 more
TL;DR: Intravenous administration of vitamin C, thiamine, and hydrocortisone administration did not significantly improve the inpatient all-cause mortality among patients with septic shock.
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Costs and impacts of scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision in Tanzania.
Veena Menon,Elizabeth S. Gold,Ramona Godbole,Delivette Castor,Hally Mahler,Steven Forsythe,Mariam Ally,Emmanuel Njeuhmeli +7 more
TL;DR: VMMC could have an immediate impact on HIV transmission, but the full impact on prevalence and deaths will only be apparent in the longer term because VMMC averts infections some years into the future among people who have been circumcised.
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Efficacy & safety of Carica papaya leaf extract (CPLE) in severe thrombocytopenia (≤30,000/μl) in adult dengue – Results of a pilot study
Dipu Sathyapalan,Athira Padmanabhan,Merlin Moni,Binny P-Prabhu,Preetha Prasanna,Sabarish Balachandran,Sreekrishnan P. Trikkur,Soumya Jose,Fabia Edathadathil,Jagan O. Anilkumar,Rekha Jayaprasad,Gireeshkumar Koramparambil,Ravindra C. Kamath,Veena Menon,Vidya Menon +14 more
TL;DR: The efficacy and safety of Carica papaya leaf extract (CPLE) in the management of severe thrombocytopenia in dengue infection was safe and well tolerated with no significant decrease in mean hospitalization days.
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Clinical efficacy and pharmacokinetics of colistimethate sodium and colistin in critically ill patients in an Indian hospital with high endemic rates of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections: A prospective observational study
Merlin Moni,Sangita Sudhir,T S Dipu,Zubair Umer Mohamed,Binny Prabhu,Fabia Edathadathil,Sabarish Balachandran,Sanjeev Singh,Preetha Prasanna,Veena Menon,Twisha S Patel,Payal K. Patel,Keith S Kaye,Vidya Menon +13 more
TL;DR: Subtherapeutic Cssavg with clinical failure and lower efficacy without significant nephrotoxicity highlights the need for therapeutic drug monitoring to guide colistin dosing.