Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear colleagues,

The 08 June issue of the KAUVERIAN begins by paying a tribute both to the courageous family of an elderly patient who was greatly traumatised by a very severe head injury and also to the patient who fought bravely but silently as he cannot speak.

This saga played out at our Vadapalani Hospital and Serena Rehab.

The family is very grateful to both.

An articulate daughter, Gayathri, writes about her harrowing experience – ” When life paused”. Her father’s recovery is still a “work in progress”.

Karthik Raman, CTV Surgeon at Heart City, equally articulate, and highly skilled, presents his clinical audit on ” Outcomes on an Indian bioprosthetic heart valve”.

Deepak kumar, a young but dedicated and determined physician, devoted to care of Diabetes, has addressed the eternal challenge on the ward that stymies the team that cares for the ” In patient with Hyperglycemia”,  through two Kauvery Post Graduate Lectures. This transcript, condensing both, is a comprehensive guide on the subject.

We present a series of fascinating case series and case reports, some of them ultrashort but with stunning images.

Bineesh Balakrishnan, Consultant in Rehabilitation at Alwarpet, debuts with ” Jigsaw Puzzle, a case series on Chronic Pain”.

Dr. Harish, Critical Care champion from Bengaluru Hospitals, and his intrepid colleagues present a strormy Tropical Pyomyositis, with metastatic MRSA infection in the background of de novo HIV

The neurosurgical team at ECB, led by Dr. Ganesh Veerabhadraiah, presents their succesful surgery on ” Intraventricular Astrocytoma”, causing seizures in a young man.

Debut author Jeeva Rima , Family Physician at ECB, and colleagues, highlight a diagnosis made at an MHC- Ca Bladder- that achieved early diagnosis and defenitive treatment .

Dr. Femela, Consultant Pathologist at Radial Road,.kindly fulfilled my dream of posting on these pages a Biblical microbe – Mycobacterium Leprae- not seen eye to eye by this generation of doctors. She has published here a patient with Hansen” s Disease, which is rarely seen in corporate medicine.

We are very proud of Vigneshwarprashanth Umapathy, recently successful at DNB, Internal Medicine. His name is long, is very tall and has a long string of publications to his credit in the KAUVERIAN.

He has just sent me SEVEN papers! We publish two in this issue.

The first one is on Myocarditis in MCTD and the second is on Paget” s Disease of the bone.

All I can do as editor is to reprint what Leigh Hunt sang in 1834 – ” Abou Ben Adhem, may his tribe increase”. I hope our PGs would emulate Vigneshwar!

Maria Mathew, from Hosur, is fortunately from Vigneshwar”s tribe, Internal Medicine, and debuts with ” Plummer Vinson Syndrome”.

We next bring you three ultrashort reports from maestros! Dr. Joseph from Heart City closes a PDA, a likely source of recurrent stroke in a young person.

Dr. Sathya Narayanan, prolific and prodigal interventional radiologist from Alwarpet, demonstrates both successful mechanical (endovascular) thrombectomy in stroke as well as TIPS to relieve severe Portal Hypertension.

Suryaprabha, Chief Clinical Pharmacist and Dy. Manager, Clinical Research, is now a much sought after guest faculty at major teaching programs. We publish her most recent lecture on Innovations in Pharmacy Vigilance for enhancing patient safety.

Sharon Jebamalar, Debut writer, Physician Assistantt from Heart Rhythm Services, Vadapalani and Alwarpet, reports on behalf of her colleague and mentors a case series of six patients who received EPS and RFA procedures for SVT due to re- do accessory pathways using advanced open window 3 D electro anatomical mapping.

Debut writer, Vivian and the FIRST psychiatrist to publish in KAUVERIAN long long after Dr. Yamini from Alwarpet published a case report long long ago, writes on ‘ How sleep rebuilds mind and body”. It is pertinent to mention here that Kauvery Tennur offers Sleep Lab services.

Lavanya, Clinical Dietician from Heart City, quietly stuns us by showing her data on ” CRP levels are infuenced  by life style and dietary modifications.

Tamil Arasan, debut writer, and clinical pharmacist at Tennur, sheds light on the hottest field in clinical pharmacy, Oncopharmacy, in whose formulary a new drug , with an unpronouncable name, pops up every day.

He chooses Multiple Myeloma as an example.

The issue closes with Journal Scan from my desk which mostly features diagnostic images from the world’ s most prestigious medical journals

Majority of you out there have not published in the KAUVERIAN.

Most have not even thought of sharing their work with colleagues in 12 other Kauvery Hospitals!

Do read, and write for the KAUVERIAN.

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