Browsing by Author "Ramakant Dixit"

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Home-based long-term oxygen therapy and oxygen conservation devices: An updated review
(Mrs Deepika Charan, 2015) Manoj Meena; Ramakant Dixit; Jai Prakash Kewlani; Surendra Kumar; Sabarigirivasan Harish; Dheeraj Sharma; Mrityunjaya Singh
Oxygen therapy has long become a cornerstone in the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and other hypoxemic and hypercapnic chronic respiratory diseases. Studies have clearly shown benefits in terms of survival, improvement in dyspnea, exercise tolerance, and other associated conditions like pulmonary hypertension that arise due to the disease. However, guidelines regarding prescription of oxygen and to make choice of the delivery devices are not explicit. Furthermore, there still prevails a large unawareness and confusion among physicians to properly prescribe and advise patients about the use of oxygen for home therapy customized as per individual needs. The availability of several new oxygen delivery and conservation devices and techniques over the past few decades has provided a wide spectrum of options to be used in combinations or alone. This article retrospectively tries to review the studies, trials, and researches published so far in this field to give a broad idea based on consistent scientific evidence to help physicians frame their set of guidelines for prescribing long-term oxygen therapy. © 2015 Manoj Meena.
Nocardia farcinica as a causative agent of lung abscess
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015) Manoj Meena; Ramakant Dixit; Harish Sabarigirivasan; Govind Narayan Srivastava; Lalit Prashant Meena
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Primary/local hepatic tuberculosis without dissemination
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015) Manoj Meena; Ramakant Dixit; Lalit Prashant Meena; Jai Kumar Samaria
We present a rare case of primary hepatic tuberculosis in a 50-year-old man who presented with pain at the right hypochondrium. The diagnosis was established by fineneedle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the primary hepatic lesions in both lobes of the liver, which was further supported by histopathological examination and tissue PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the FNAC specimens. Copyright © 2015 BMJ Publishing Group.
Surgical and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(Hindawi Limited, 2014) Manoj Meena; Ramakant Dixit; Mrityunjaya Singh; Jai Kumar Samaria; Surendra Kumar
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most extensively studied and researched disease in pulmonology and a cause of significant morbidity, mortality, and financial burden on patient's family and country's economy. Its management continues to be a challenge to both the physician and the patient's family. So far, it is preventable and treatable but not curable. Emphysema, a phenotype of COPD, is the most debilitating condition associated with progressive exercise intolerance and severe dyspnea. Despite decades of research, medical treatments available so far have helped improve quality of life and slowed down the decline in respiratory function but did not significantly improve the survival benefits. Though surgical lung volume reduction (LVR) procedures have shown some promise in context to functional gains and survival but, only in a carefully selected group of patients, bronchoscopic LVR procedures are yet to explore their full potential and limitations. This paper retrospectively studied the developments so far, medical and surgical, with special emphasis on the bronchoscopic procedures of lung volume reduction, and tried to comparatively analyze the risks and benefits of each one of them through various trials and studies done to date. © 2014 Manoj Meena et al.
Tuberculosis of the triceps muscle
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015) Manoj Meena; Ramakant Dixit; Jai Kumar Samaria; Sabarigirivasan Harish Vijayakandeepan Kumaresan
A tubercular swelling of the triceps muscle in a 25-yearold immunocompetent man is described in this report. He presented with hard, fixed swelling at the lower end of the triceps muscle. Confirmatory diagnosis was established by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the swelling with subsequent PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the FNAC specimen. The patient was completely cured with antitubercular therapy. Copyright 2015 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.