Department of Neurology

Research

The department of Neurology is involved in International and National ICMR sponsored multi centric projects. The following projects are in various stages of execution

ENRICH: Novel Oral anticoagulation with Endoxaban in cases of Stroke secondary to Atrial fibrillation while on warfarin therapy.
INSTRUCT: Indian Stroke Clinical Trials Net work. BV MC & Bharati Hospital has been a major participating center. Under ageis of INSTRUCT – BV MC & BH is participating in MOBILITY & STENOSIS Trials
MS Registry: Indian Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating disorders Registry: Nodal center for Maharashtra Region
FESHH trial: Acute Intervention in critical care set up.

Publications

S.Chaudhury--- SP Gorthi—et al. Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 2 (APE2): An ancillary enzyme for contextual base excision repair mechanisms to preserve genome stability. BioChime. 2021;190:70-90
S. Sardesai, J Solomon, A Armugam, SP Gorthi et al. Predicting post stroke motor recovery of upper extremity using clinical variables and performance assays: A prospective cohort study protocol. Physiotherapy Research International, e1937. https://doi.org/10.1002/pri.1937
SP Gorthi and D Garg. Editorial Commentry. Stroke Epidemeology among Young persons in India: Every Step Counts Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2022; 1:1-2
GK Puppala, SP Gorthi, V Chandran, G Gundabolu. Fronto-Temporal Dementia- Current Concepts Neurol India 2021;69:1144-52
Jeyaraj Durai Pandian , DM, FRACP-------Sankar Gorthi---et al. INSTRuCT Protocol, Infrastructure and Governance. Stroke. 2021;52:00–00. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.033149
Amit Kumar---Sankar Prasad G—Kameshwar Prasad. Association of SUMolation pathway Gene with stroke in India. Neurology May 2021; Print ahead of publishing.
Srinivasa Rao K, Manikanda KV, Bharath S, Sankar Prasad G. Systematic review protocol to assess artificial intelligence diagnostic accuracy performance in detecting acute ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusion in CT and MRI medical imaging. BMJ OPEN 2021;11(3): e043665.
Manikanda Krishnan V., Srinivasa Rao Kundeti, Arun H. Shastry, Shankar Prasad Gorthi, "Enhancing infarct segmentation performance using domainspecific attention in acute ischemic stroke," Proc. SPIE 11313, Medical ImEvent: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United Statesaging 2020: Image Processing, 1131326 (10 March 2020); doi: 10.1117/12.2549224
Aparajitha C, Radhika N, Ranjit G, Guatam Kumar P, Vijay Chandran, Sankar prasad G, Radhakrishnan K. Socioeconomic consequences of drug resistant epilepsy in adult cohort from South India. Epilepsy and behaviour 2020. 110(Pt B):107173.
Vasanta Rajagopalan, Manikandan N, Sankar Prasad G, Sebastian P, John Solomon. Effectiveness of a multifocal context enhancing functional therapy to promote functional arm use and recovery of stroke survivors; study protocol for a clinical trial. BMJ Open 2019; 9(9):e023963.
Sanjucta S, Ashokan A, Subramanian D, Vasudev G, John S, Sankar Prasad G, Senthil Kumaran D. Effectiveness of a multifocal context enhancing functional therapy to promote functional arm use and recovery of stroke survivors; study protocol for a clinical trial. Physical Therapy. 2020; Reviews 25(2):1-8.
Radhika nair, Radhakrishnan K, Aparajita C, Sankar Prasad G, Varsha AP. Sleep Apnea-Predictor of functional outcome in Acute Ischemic Stroke. J Stroke and Cerebrovascular disease 2019. 28(3)
Vikram Asturkar, Sankar Prasad Gorthi, YS Sirohi, Pawan Dhull. Prognostication of Ischemic Stroke Based on Stroke Volume. International Journal of Scientific Research 2018 7(3):687.
Kameshar Prasad, Reed S,Qiukui H,Gordan Guyatt, Martin O Donnel, Sankar Prasad G, Lyubov Lytvyn et al Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel of acute high risk transient ischaemic attack and minor Ischaemic Stroke: A Clinical practice guideline. BMJ Clinical Research 2018; 363:k5130.
Maria MD, Sankar Prasad G, Kunal V, richa T, Vijaykumar C et al diffusion tensor tractography in cerebral small vessel disease: correlation with cognitive function. The neuroradiology journal 2017. 31(1): 197140091668275.
Kameswar Prasad-----Sankar Prasad Gorthi====A Kumar. Intravenous Autologous Bone marrow mononuclear stem cell therepy for Ischemic Stroke: A multicentric Randomized trial (INVEST TRIAL). Stroke. 2014; 45:3618-3624.