Do all traumatic hemothorax require a tube thoracostomy: A retrospective review by Paul Yohan George, Vijayan Purushothaman, Kirthi Sathyakumar, Vignesh Kumar

“…Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted from January 2020 to June 2022 at a level-one trauma center in South India to account for patients who required a tube thoracostomy after planned expectant management for hemothorax. …”
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Assessing the Accuracy of Cameriere’s Model for Dental Age Estimation on Seven Mandibular Teeth on the Right and Left Sides of Orthopantomogram by Rachana V. Prabhu, Prabhisha G. Nair, Prashanth Shenoy, Laxmikanth Chatra

“…Introduction: The present study aimed to determine the accuracy of Cameriere’s formula on both the right and left sides of the mandible in the Dakshina Karnataka population of South India and to identify which side is most efficient in determining age. …”
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The impact of speculum uses on the incidence of blepharoptosis in patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery: A prospective analysis by Savithiri Palanivel, Rajagopalan Jayagayathri, Dayakar Yadalla

“…Methods: Our study is a prospective observational design to analyze patients who underwent phacoemulsification surgery under topical anesthesia between October 2017 and May 2018 at a tertiary eye hospital in South India. All patients had their Margin Reflex Distance 1 (MRD1), levator palpebrae superioris (LPS) function, and lid crease distance (LCD) measured before and after surgery on day one, one month, three months, and six months to evaluate the extent of ptosis at each time point that was recorded clinically and photographic documentation for accurate evaluation. …”
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Des céréales locales pour la transition climatique et alimentaire. Pratiques paysannes et pratiques féminines sur les sorghos et les mils du Sahel sénégalais au Deccan indien. by Danièle Clavel, Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Éric Verger

“…The first, located in the Senegalese Sahel, « Relier la diversité agricole à la qualité de l’alimentation par l’analyse sociale des pratiques féminines et de l’alimentation “(DIVA), aimed to analyze the impacts of rice intensification on agricultural and food biodiversity, and the second located in the dry zone of the Deccan (South India), "Accompagner l'adaptation de l'agriculture irriguée au changement climatique" (ATCHA), studied the adaptations of irrigated agriculture to climate change, 30 years after the Green Revolution (GR). …”
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The Everyday Commoning Practices in Urbanising Localities by Bhuvaneswari Raman, Eric Denis

“…Negotiating Rights to Inhabit Common Lands for Housing in Two Cities of South India This paper presents a framework for understanding the everyday political dynamics of commoning initiated by residents to secure their claims to ‘common land’ in urbanising localities. …”
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Antifungal Susceptibility of Dermatophyte Isolates from Patients with Chronic and Recurrent Dermatophytosis by Nikhitha Amin, Manjunath M. Shenoy, Vidya Pai

“…Terbinafine resistance appears to be an uncommon occurrence in South India. In vitro susceptibility tests shall be regularly done to design the epidemiological cutoff values.…”
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Impact of Anterior Commissure Involvement and Frozen Guided Resections on Oncological Outcomes after Laser Cordectomy in Early Glottic Cancers – A 10-year Retrospective Analysis fr... by Elizabeth Mathew Iype, Ankit Vishwani, Bipin T Varghese, Shaji Thomas, Sahya S Lal

“…Materials and Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of patients with early glottic cancer (Tis, T1) who underwent TLM in a tertiary cancer center in South India from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2019. …”
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Effectiveness of health literacy and relaxing music on quality of sleep and risk for antenatal depression by Meena Konsam, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Sunita Panda, Jyothi Shetty, N. Ravishankar, Sonia R. B. D’Souza

“…Aim: To determine the effectiveness of a combination of Comprehensive Health literacy And Relaxing Music (CHARM) interventions on quality of sleep and risk for antenatal depression among women visiting antenatal outpatient departments of a tertiary hospital in South India. Methods: A four-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial was adopted; 128 low-risk primigravid women were recruited and randomly assigned to the four groups using block randomization. …”
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“Etiology and CT pattern in patients with interstial lung disease”: shift in the trends? by Abhishek Samdesi, Alamelu Haran, Navya Chinnaswamy Narayanaswamy

“…Methods: A prospective observational analysis of “Radiological and Etiological patterns” in patients presenting with features of the ILD in a tertiary care hospital in South India. Results: The study consisted of 104 patients, with mean age group of 48.03 years, with female 54% of the study population. …”
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Suture versus tacker closure of the peritoneum in transabdominal preperitoneal repair of inguinal hernia: A prospective comparative cohort study by C. Rajagopal, M. Sunil Krishna, Pavan M. Bhat

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: This prospective comparative cohort study included patients undergoing unilateral TAPP at a tertiary care hospital in South India from December 2022 to April 2024. A total of 80 patients were included in the study, of which 50 underwent peritoneal closure by tackers and 30 underwent peritoneal closure by sutures based on the standard of care of the operating surgeon. …”
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Effect of Lockdown due to COVID-19 on the Aerosol and Trace Gases Spatial Distribution over India and Adjoining Regions by Madineni Venkat Ratnam, Perumal Prasad, Sivan Thankamani Akhil Raj, Ibrahim Hoteit

“…Similar decreases in aerosol concentrations over Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and south India during lockdown are noticed in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) measurements, reaching the lowest values in the satellite era. …”
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Effect of prednisolone acetate eye drops on blood glucose profile in Indian population by Archana Bhat, Prajakta Paritekar, Y. Umesh

“…Materials and Methods: Prospective, observational cohort study conducted in a tertiary eye care hospital in South India from August 2022 to May 2023. Nondiabetics (Group A) and diabetics with good glycemic control, i.e., glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) <7% (Group B) undergoing routine uneventful cataract surgery by a single surgeon were included in the study. …”
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A Study of Hypothyroidism in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Patients by Sudharsanan V, Prabhu Shankar S, Viknesh V

“…Materials and Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted over three months in a tertiary care center in South India. The study involved 237 CKD patients who provided informed consent and met inclusion criteria. …”
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Clinical Features of Four West Nile Virus Cases and Its Molecular Characterization from a South Indian Tertiary Care Hospital by Shoba Mammen, Aiswarya Nair, Santhosh Kumar, Zayina Zonderveni, A. T. Prabhakar, Turaka Vijay Prakash, Sanjith Aaron, Mathew Alexander, Anand Zachariah, Asha Mary Abraham

“…Of eight lineages described, Lineage 1a has been reported from many parts of South India and is known to cause neuroinvasive illness. …”
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Correlation of Clinicohaematological Parameters in Paediatric Dengue: A Retrospective Study by Ramakrishna Pai Jakribettu, Rekha Boloor, Andrew Thaliath, Sharanya Yesudasan George, Thomas George, Manoj Ponadka Rai, Umran Rafique Sheikh, Kadke Shreedhara Avabratha, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga

“…This was a retrospective study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Coastal Karnataka, South India, to know the correlation between the clinical presentation and haematological parameters in the paediatric cases presented with dengue symptoms. …”
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Changes in physical characteristics of extreme rainfall events during the Indian summer monsoon based on downscaled and bias-corrected CMIP6 models by Stella Jes Varghese, Sreenivas Pentakota, Pushpalatha Thadivalasa, Gopikrishna Podapati, Karumuri Ashok

“…While mid-century scenarios show minimal variations in extreme rainfall intensity from the historical period, end-century projections reveal significant shifts; an increase in north India and a decrease in south India due to cloud-induced cooling effects.…”
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Clinico-pathological profile of patients with HIV and tuberculosis co-infection by Cheryl Sarah Philipose, Sinchana KM, Haritha Haridas, John Ramapuram, Sharada Rai

“…Material and methods The present 5-year retrospective study was carried out in the Department of Pathology at a tertiary care hospital in South India. Study included clinico-pathological profile of 80 people living with HIV (PLHIV) and subsequently developed TB co-infection; their CD4+ counts done at the time of admission were examined. …”
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Development and validation of a risk assessment tool for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes among patients in South Karnataka, India by Deepak Anil, Sunil Kumar Doddaiah, Rajendra Prasad Shivaswamy, Arun Gopi, Sayana Basheer, Mysore Ramakrishnaiah Narayana Murthy

“…This study attempts to develop a non-invasive risk assessment tool to identify patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in southern India.Methodology An exploratory study was conducted among 545 patients with T2DM in the Mysuru district, South India for 6 months. A prevalidated questionnaire was used to collect data. …”
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Risk Factors for Mortality in Melioidosis: A Single-Centre, 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Raviraj Menon, Poornima Baby, Anil Kumar V., Sandeep Surendran, Manu Pradeep, Aiswarya Rajendran, Gaayathri Suju, Arathy Ashok

“…This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at a quaternary care centre in South India. Clinical, demographic, and biochemical data in patients diagnosed with melioidosis with cultures were collected between January 2011 and December 2020 from medical records. …”
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Monitoring and assessment of a eutrophicated coastal lake using multivariate approaches by U.G. Abhjna

“…Multivariate statistical techniques such as cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and principal component analysis were applied to evaluate the temporal and spatial variations in water quality data set generated for two years (2008-2010) from six monitoring stations of Veli-Akkulam Lake and compared with a regional reference lake Vellayani of south India. Seasonal variations of 14 different physicochemical parameters analyzed were as follows: pH (6.42-7.48), water temperature (26.0-31.28°C), salinity (0.50-26.81 ppt), electrical conductivity (47-20656.31 µs/cm), dissolved oxygen (0.078-7.65 mg/L), free carbon-dioxide (3.8-51.8 mg/L), total hardness (27.20-2166.6 mg/L), total dissolved solids (84.66-4195 mg/L), biochemical oxygen demand (1.57-25.78 mg/L), chemical oxygen demand (5.35-71.14 mg/L), nitrate (0.012-0.321 µg/ml), nitrite (0.24-0.79 µg/ml), phosphate (0.04-5.88 mg/L), and sulfate (0.27-27.8 mg/L). …”
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