Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS): case report and systematic review of cases reported in the last 16 yearsVarun Dhir
Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Intern Med 46:899-904. 2007
..The last review of this syndrome which analyzed 24 cases was published in 1990. Since then, 75 more cases have been reported. This article reviews these cases...
Medical image. Arthritis and macroglossia. Multiple myeloma complicated by amyloidosis causing arthropathyVarun Dhir
Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
N Z Med J 120:U2534. 2007
Purine biosynthetic pathway genes and methotrexate response in rheumatoid arthritis patients among north IndiansShruti Sharma
Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
Pharmacogenet Genomics 19:823-8. 2009
..We also assessed the cumulative contribution of these polymorphisms together with those from the receptor-metabolizer-transporter and folate pathway genes that we have previously investigated...
Long-term outcome of lupus nephritis in Asian IndiansVarun Dhir
Department of Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 64:713-20. 2012
..There are sparse data on outcome of lupus nephritis from developing countries. This study looks at outcome in Asian Indians...
Fibromyalgia is common and adversely affects pain and fatigue perception in North Indian patients with rheumatoid arthritisVarun Dhir
Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
J Rheumatol 36:2443-8. 2009
..We studied prevalence and effects of FM in North Indian patients with RA and associations of RA with disease activity...
Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Bath questionnaires and HAQ-S in Hindi for Indian patients with ankylosing spondylitisVarun Dhir
Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India
Clin Rheumatol 31:1511-5. 2012
..82-0.94), BAS-G ICC 0.75 (0.58-0.86), and HAQ-S ICC 0.91 (0.84-0.95). The Hindi versions of the BASDAI, BASFI, BAS-G, and HAQ-S were found to be valid and reliable for use in Hindi-speaking Indian patients with ankylosing spondylitis...
Interaction of genes from influx-metabolism-efflux pathway and their influence on methotrexate efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis patients among IndiansShruti Sharma
Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
Pharmacogenet Genomics 18:1041-9. 2008
..We investigated the contribution of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in RFC, FOLR1, FPGS, GGH and MDR1 genes to MTX response in RA patients from North India...