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Krishna MS, Lenka S, Sridevi B, Rao NS, Rao DN, Sarma VVSS, Mithun GG, Prakash TA, Khalap ST, Satelkar NP, Siddharth G, Fernando V. Major sources of sinking particulate organic matter in the western Bay of Bengal. Mar Environ Res 2024; 197:106480. [PMID: 38564848 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2023] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Impacts of river discharge on coastal ocean processes are multi-dimensional. Studies on sinking particle fluxes, composition and their seasonal variability in coastal oceans are very limited. In this study, we investigated the impact of river discharge on seasonal variability in sinking fluxes of total mass, biogenic and lithogenic material in a river-dominated continental margin, western coastal Bay of Bengal. Higher POC, lithogenic and total mass fluxes were found during early southwest monsoon, and are decoupled with peak river discharge and elevated primary production. It is attributed to cross-shelf transport of re-suspended surface sediments from shelf region. Peak river discharge followed by elevated chlorophyll-a suggest nutrients supply though river discharge support primary production. Elemental C:N ratios, δ13C and δ15N results likely suggest that both marine and terrestrial sources contributed to sinking POM, . Overall, higher sinking fluxes during southwest monsoon than rest of the year suggest that seasonal river discharge exerts considerable impact on sinking fluxes in the western coastal Bay of Bengal.
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- M S Krishna
- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India, 530017.
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India, 530017
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India, 530017
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- ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad, 500090, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India, 530017
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India, 530017
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, 403004
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Shastry S, Rajesh R, Sangamesh S, Siddharth G. Hepatitis A: A refreshing perspective through a rare symptom in a teaching hospital in south India. J Family Med Prim Care 2020; 9:3749-3752. [PMID: 33102363 PMCID: PMC7567288 DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_549_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Hepatitis A virus is a common cause of acute viral hepatitis in India, due to lack of clean water and sanitation. Usual presentations include gastroenteritis or a viral respiratory infection. Hepatitis A has a variety of extra-hepatic manifestations which, if failed to be recognized, evades diagnosis. A 28-year-old lady presented with pain abdomen for 1 week, fever with rashes for 1 day. Patient was febrile at the time of examination. Rash was maculopapular with irregular edges, tender. On examining abdomen, tenderness noted in right hypochondrium and epigastrium with hepatomegaly. Patient was then admitted. Working diagnosis was Viral hepatitis for evaluation. Hepatitis A serology was sent which came positive for Ig M. Patient was treated with IV fluids, bile acid sequestrants, IV PPI, IV and oral antibiotics, antihistamines and 3 doses of injection Vit K. Calamine lotion was also given for skin care. Patient improved symptomatically in 2 days and was discharged after 3 days of hospital stay. In our case, the maculopapular rash spreading to the whole body was the major presenting symptom. The presentation of Hepatitis A with rashes maybe seen in around 10% of patients with extrahepatic manifestations along with arthralgia. Differential diagnosis in this case should be erythema multiforme which is the most common maculopapular eruptive rash. Other viral hepatitis causing agents (Hepatitis B&E) have been documented to present with rashes. SLE and Kawasaki disease rarely present with fever with rash with nonspecific multisystemic involvement. Borrelia, Leptospira also have icterus in their presentations. Early diagnosis and management in this case prevented complication such as autoimmune hepatitis, pleural effusion, ascites acute kidney injury. This case presentation urges the need to consider Hepatitis A to be an important differential diagnosis of fever with rash especially in tropical/sub-tropical countries with poor sanitation.
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- Shashank Shastry
- Department of General Medicine, JJM Medical College, Davanagere, Karnataka, India
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- Department of General Medicine, JJM Medical College, Davanagere, Karnataka, India
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- Department of General Medicine, JJM Medical College, Davanagere, Karnataka, India
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- Department of General Medicine, JJM Medical College, Davanagere, Karnataka, India
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Siddharth G, Tv P, Rao AA. What Haemodialysis Does to QTC in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Chronic Kidney Disease? J Assoc Physicians India 2020; 68:74. [PMID: 31979730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- JJM Medical College, Davangere, Karnataka
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Siddharth G, Sangamesh S, Rao AA. Relationship between Nighttime BP and Urine Microalbumin to Creatinine Ratio. J Assoc Physicians India 2020; 68:77. [PMID: 31979754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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