Browsing by Author "Agrawal, Neeraj K"
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Item Atherosclerosis in diabetes mellitus: role of inflammation.(2007-05-05) Maiti, Rituparna; Agrawal, Neeraj KInflammation plays a central role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, starting from initiation, through progression and ultimately the thrombotic complications of atherosclerosis. Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. Hyperglycemia-induced endothelial dysfunctions, along with hypercoagulable potential of diabetes mellitus, accelerate the process of atherothrombotic complications. Therefore, clinically feasible markers to monitor subtle systemic inflammatory burden and specific add-on therapy for the same constitute need of the present day. The understanding of the concept of inflammation in diabetes-accelerated atherosclerosis can be used practically to predict future cardiovascular risk by evaluating inflammatory biomarkers and to design clinical trials making inflammation as a therapeutic target.Item Multivitamin and micronutrient treatment improves semen parameters of azoospermic patients with maturation arrest.(2010-04) Singh, Amit K; Tiwari, Anil K; Singh, Pratap B; Dwivedi, Udai S; Trivedi, Sameer; Singh, Surya K; Agrawal, Neeraj K; Deshpande, Shripad BThe study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of multivitamin and micronutrient supplementation in azoospermic patients with maturation arrest. A total of 35 azoospermic patients showing maturation arrest on testicular biopsy were recruited in this study. The patients were divided into two groups. Untreated group (n=11) without any treatment and treated group (n=24) who received multivitamins, micronutrients and co-enzyme Q10. The sperm concentration, motility and morphology were evaluated at monthly interval. The results showed reduction in liquefaction time and relative viscosity of the semen in the treated group. Further, in treated group there was appearance of spermatozoa (4.0 million/ml) exhibiting progressive motility (7%) and normal morphology (6%), even in the first follow up visit. The sperm count, motility and normal morphology increased significantly on subsequent visits. Within 3 months (3 visits) 2 pregnancies were reported. These observations indicate that multivitamin and micronutrient supplementation improve the qualitative and quantitative parameters of seminogram in patients with azoospermia of maturation arrest.