Professor
Christian Medical College Vellore, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore – 632004, Tamil Nadu, India
Jeba J, Isiah R, Subhashini J, Backianathan S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Radiation Pneumonitis After Conventional Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Jul;9(7):XC01-XC05. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13969.6211. Epub 2015 Jul 1. PMID: 26393189; PMCID: PMC4573021.
Jeba J, Isiah R, Subhashini J, Backianathan S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Radiation Pneumonitis After Conventional Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Jul;9(7):XC01-XC05. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13969.6211. Epub 2015 Jul 1. PMID: 26393189; PMCID: PMC4573021.
Jeba J, John S, Backiyanathan S, Christopher DJ, Kurian S. Inflammatory pseudotumour of the lung with sarcomatous brain metastasis. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2008 Jul;17(4):412-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00886.x. PMID: 18485012. Link
James P, Gupta R, Christopher DJ, Thankagunam B, Veeraraghavan B. MDR- and XDR-TB among suspected drug-resistant TB patients in a tertiary care hospital in India. Clin Respir J. 2011 Jan;5(1):19-25. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2009.00184.x. PMID: 21159137.
Denkinger CM, Kalantri Y, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Shankar D, Saxena A, Sriram N, Balamugesh T, Luo R, Pollock NR, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 23;8(12):e85447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085447. PMID: 24376880; PMCID: PMC3871622.
Christopher DJ, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Luo R, Balamugesh T, Duraikannan P, Pollock NR, Pai M, Denkinger CM. Performance of Xpert MTB/RIF on pleural tissue for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Eur Respir J. 2013 Nov;42(5):1427-9. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00103213. Epub 2013 Jul 30. PMID: 23900990.
Jeba J, Isiah R, Subhashini J, Backianathan S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Radiation Pneumonitis After Conventional Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Jul;9(7):XC01-XC05. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13969.6211. Epub 2015 Jul 1. PMID: 26393189; PMCID: PMC4573021.
Jeba J, Isiah R, Subhashini J, Backianathan S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Radiation Pneumonitis After Conventional Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Jul;9(7):XC01-XC05. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13969.6211. Epub 2015 Jul 1. PMID: 26393189; PMCID: PMC4573021.
Jeba J, John S, Backiyanathan S, Christopher DJ, Kurian S. Inflammatory pseudotumour of the lung with sarcomatous brain metastasis. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2008 Jul;17(4):412-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00886.x. PMID: 18485012. Link
James P, Gupta R, Christopher DJ, Thankagunam B, Veeraraghavan B. MDR- and XDR-TB among suspected drug-resistant TB patients in a tertiary care hospital in India. Clin Respir J. 2011 Jan;5(1):19-25. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2009.00184.x. PMID: 21159137.
Denkinger CM, Kalantri Y, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Shankar D, Saxena A, Sriram N, Balamugesh T, Luo R, Pollock NR, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 23;8(12):e85447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085447. PMID: 24376880; PMCID: PMC3871622.
Christopher DJ, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Luo R, Balamugesh T, Duraikannan P, Pollock NR, Pai M, Denkinger CM. Performance of Xpert MTB/RIF on pleural tissue for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Eur Respir J. 2013 Nov;42(5):1427-9. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00103213. Epub 2013 Jul 30. PMID: 23900990.
Zwerling A, Pai M, Michael JS, Christopher DJ. Serial testing using interferon-γ release assays in nursing students in India. Eur Respir J. 2014 Jul;44(1):257-60. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00011914. Epub 2014 Apr 2. PMID: 24696119.
Christopher DJ, Jeyaseelan L, Michael JS, Veeraraghavan B, Manipadam MT, David T, Gupta M, Yadav B. Burden of diabetes among patients with tuberculosis: 10-year experience from a tertiary care referral teaching hospital in South India. Lung India. 2020 May-Jun;37(3):232-237. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_111_19. PMID: 32367845; PMCID: PMC7353927.
Nambiar A, Christopher DJ, Mammen J, David T, Kang G, David S. Informed consent among nursing students participating in biomedical research. Indian J Med Ethics. 2012 Jul-Sep;9(3):186-9. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2012.062. PMID: 22864079.
Bhatt AN, Tharyan P, Michael JS, Christopher DJ, Varghese GM, Sathyendra S, Rajan SJ, George K, Prasad JH. Treatment outcomes with daily self-administered treatment and thrice-weekly directly-observed treatment in two cohorts of newly-diagnosed, sputum-positive adults with pulmonary tuberculosis. Indian J Tuberc. 2020 Jan;67(1):105-111. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2017.05.012. Epub 2017 Jun 24. PMID: 32192603.
Haagsma JA, James SL, Castle CD, Dingels ZV, Fox JT, Hamilton EB, Liu Z, Lucchesi LR, Roberts NLS, Sylte DO, Adebayo OM, Ahmadi A, Ahmed MB, Aichour MTE, Alahdab F, Alghnam SA, Aljunid SM, Al-Raddadi RM, Alsharif U, Altirkawi K, Anjomshoa M, Antonio CAT, Appiah SCY, Aremu O, Arora A, Asayesh H, Assadi R, Awasthi A, Ayala Quintanilla BP, Balalla S, Banstola A, Barker-Collo SL, Bärnighausen TW, Bazargan-Hejazi S, Bedi N, Behzadifar M, Behzadifar M, Benjet C, Bennett DA, Bensenor IM, Bhaumik S, Bhutta ZA, Bijani A, Borges G, Borschmann R, Bose D, Boufous S, Brazinova A, Campuzano Rincon JC, Cárdenas R, Carrero JJ, Carvalho F, Castañeda-Orjuela CA, Catalá-López F, Choi JJ, Christopher DJ, Crowe CS, Dalal K, Daryani A, Davitoiu DV, Degenhardt L, De Leo D, De Neve JW, Deribe K, Dessie GA, deVeber GA, Dharmaratne SD, Doan LP, Dolan KA, Driscoll TR, Dubey M, El-Khatib Z, Ellingsen CL, El Sayed Zaki M, Endries AY, Eskandarieh S, Faro A, Fereshtehnejad SM, Fernandes E, Filip I, Fischer F, Franklin RC, Fukumoto T, Gezae KE, Gill TK, Goulart AC, Grada A, Guo Y, Gupta R, Haghparast Bidgoli H, Haj-Mirzaian A, Haj-Mirzaian A, Hamadeh RR, Hamidi S, Haro JM, Hassankhani H, Hassen HY, Havmoeller R, Hendrie D, Henok A, Híjar M, Hole MK, Homaie Rad E, Hossain N, Hostiuc S, Hu G, Igumbor EU, Ilesanmi OS, Irvani SSN, Islam SMS, Ivers RQ, Jacobsen KH, Jahanmehr N, Jakovljevic M, Jayatilleke AU, Jha RP, Jonas JB, Jorjoran Shushtari Z, Jozwiak JJ, Jürisson M, Kabir A, Kalani R, Kasaeian A, Kelbore AG, Kengne AP, Khader YS, Khafaie MA, Khalid N, Khan EA, Khoja AT, Kiadaliri AA, Kim YE, Kim D, Kisa A, Koyanagi A, Kuate Defo B, Kucuk Bicer B, Kumar M, Lalloo R, Lam H, Lami FH, Lansingh VC, Leasher JL, Li S, Linn S, Lunevicius R, Machado FR, Magdy Abd El Razek H, Magdy Abd El Razek M, Mahotra NB, Majdan M, Majeed A, Malekzadeh R, Malik MA, Malta DC, Manda AL, Mansournia MA, Massenburg BB, Maulik PK, Meheretu HAA, Mehndiratta MM, Melese A, Mendoza W, Mengesha MM, Meretoja TJ, Meretoja A, Mestrovic T, Miazgowski T, Miller TR, Mini GK, Mirrakhimov EM, Moazen B, Mohammad Gholi Mezerji N, Mohammadibakhsh R, Mohammed S, Molokhia M, Monasta L, Mondello S, Montero-Zamora PA, Moodley Y, Moosazadeh M, Moradi G, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morawska L, Velásquez IM, Morrison SD, Moschos MM, Mousavi SM, Murthy S, Musa KI, Naik G, Najafi F, Nangia V, Nascimento BR, Ndwandwe DE, Negoi I, Nguyen TH, Nguyen SH, Nguyen LH, Nguyen HLT, Ningrum DNA, Nirayo YL, Ofori-Asenso R, Ogbo FA, Oh IH, Oladimeji O, Olagunju AT, Olagunju TO, Olivares PR, Orpana HM, Otstavnov SS, P A M, Pakhale S, Park EK, Patton GC, Pesudovs K, Phillips MR, Polinder S, Prakash S, Radfar A, Rafay A, Rafiei A, Rahimi S, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Rahman MA, Rai RK, Ramezanzadeh K, Rawaf S, Rawaf DL, Renzaho AMN, Resnikoff S, Rezaeian S, Roever L, Ronfani L, Roshandel G, Sabde YD, Saddik B, Salamati P, Salimi Y, Salz I, Samy AM, Sanabria J, Sanchez Riera L, Santric Milicevic MM, Satpathy M, Sawhney M, Sawyer SM, Saxena S, Saylan M, Schneider IJC, Schwebel DC, Seedat S, Sepanlou SG, Shaikh MA, Shams-Beyranvand M, Shamsizadeh M, Sharif-Alhoseini M, Sheikh A, Shen J, Shigematsu M, Shiri R, Shiue I, Silva JP, Singh JA, Sinha DN, Soares Filho AM, Soriano JB, Soshnikov S, Soyiri IN, Starodubov VI, Stein DJ, Stokes MA, Sufiyan MB, Sunshine JE, Sykes BL, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Tabb KM, Tehrani-Banihashemi A, Tessema GA, Thakur JS, Tran KB, Tran BX, Tudor Car L, Uthman OA, Uzochukwu BSC, Valdez PR, Varavikova E, Vasconcelos AMN, Venketasubramanian N, Violante FS, Vlassov V, Waheed Y, Wang YP, Wijeratne T, Winkler AS, Yadav P, Yano Y, Yenesew MA, Yip P, Yisma E, Yonemoto N, Younis MZ, Yu C, Zafar S, Zaidi Z, Zaman SB, Zamani M, Zhao Y, Zodpey S, Hay SI, Lopez AD, Mokdad AH, Vos T. Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Inj Prev. 2020 Oct;26(Supp 1):i12-i26. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043296. Epub 2020 Jan 8. PMID: 31915273; PMCID: PMC7571356. Link
India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators. Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990-2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet. 2017 Dec 2;390(10111):2437-2460. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32804-0. Epub 2017 Nov 14. Erratum in: Lancet. 2017 Dec 2;390(10111):e49. PMID: 29150201; PMCID: PMC5720596. Link
Schumacher SG, Thangakunam B, Denkinger CM, Oliver AA, Shakti KB, Qin ZZ, Michael JS, Luo R, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Impact of point-of-care implementation of Xpert® MTB/RIF: product vs. process innovation. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 Sep;19(9):1084-90. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0120. PMID: 26260830.
Daley P, Jagannathan V, John KR, Sarojini J, Latha A, Vieth R, Suzana S, Jeyaseelan L, Christopher DJ, Smieja M, Mathai D. Adjunctive vitamin D for treatment of active tuberculosis in India: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 May;15(5):528-34. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70053-8. Epub 2015 Apr 8. PMID: 25863562.
Saheer S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ, George B. Lenalidomide-induced diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. Lung India. 2014 Jan;31(1):90-1. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.126004. PMID: 24669097; PMCID: PMC3960826. Link
Christopher DJ, Ashok N, Ravivarma A, Shankar D, Peterson E, Dinh PT, Vedanthan PK . Low Potency of Indian Dust Mite Allergen Skin Prick Test Extracts Compared to FDA-Approved Extracts: A Double-Blinded Randomized Control Trial. Allergy Rhinol (Providence). 2018 Sep 25;9:2152656718796746. doi: 10.1177/2152656718796746. PMID: 30263870; PMCID: PMC6156211. Link
Christopher DJ, Dinakaran S, Gupta R, James P, Isaac B, Thangakunam B. Thoracoscopic pleural biopsy improves yield of Xpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Respirology. 2018 Jul;23(7):714-717. doi: 10.1111/resp.13275. Epub 2018 Feb 27. PMID: 29486527.
Paul A, Christopher DJ, Thangakunam B. The puzzle of lymphoma among the granulomatous disorders. Lung India. 2019 Mar-Apr;36(2):164-166. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_395_17. PMID: 30829255; PMCID: PMC6410593.
Anuradha C, Shyamkumar NK, Vinu M, Babu NR, Christopher DJ. Outcomes of bronchial artery embolization for life-threatening hemoptysis due to tuberculosis and post-tuberculosis sequelae. Diagn Interv Radiol. 2012 Jan-Feb;18(1):96-101. doi: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.3876-11.2. Epub 2011 Jun 15. PMID: 21678246. Link
Jesudasan CD, Nair S, Thangakunam B, Keshava SN, Moses V. Near-fatal hemorrhage after bronchoscopic resection of a carcinoid tumor: successful management by bronchial artery embolization. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2010 Apr;17(2):152-4. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0b013e3181da2faf. PMID: 23168733. Link
Vimala LR, Gibikote S, Irodi A, Rajan M, Christopher DJ. Correlation of quantitative and qualitative parameters of high-resolution computed tomography with pulmonary function test for diagnosing and assessing the severity of obstructive pulmonary disease. Pol J Radiol. 2019 Oct 3;84:e381-e388. doi: 10.5114/pjr.2019.89306. PMID: 31969954; PMCID: PMC6964351.
Gupta N, Mathew J, Mohan H, Chowdhury SD, Kurien RT, Christopher DJ, Thangakunam B, Alexander M, Sivadasan A, Tamilarasi V, Valson AT, Gowri M, Kabeerdoss J, Danda D. Addition of second-line steroid sparing immunosuppressants like mycophenolate mofetil improves outcome of Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD): a series from a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India. Rheumatol Int. 2018 Feb;38(2):203-209. doi: 10.1007/s00296-017-3730-5. Epub 2017 May 26. PMID: 28550399
Dhar R, Ghoshal AG, Guleria R, Sharma S, Kulkarni T, Swarnakar R, Samaria JK, Chaudhary S, Gaur SN, Christopher DJ, Singh V, Abraham G, Sarkar A, Mukhopadhyay A, Panda J, Swaminathan S, Nene A, Krishnan S, Shahi PK, Sarangdhar N, Mishra N, Chowdury SR, Halder I, Katiyar SK, Jain VK, Chawla R, Koul PA. Clinical practice guidelines 2019: Indian consensus-based recommendations on pneumococcal vaccination for adults. Lung India. 2020 Aug;37(Supplement):S19-S29. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_272_20. PMID: 32830790; PMCID: PMC7703813.
Christopher DJ, Daley P, Armstrong L, James P, Gupta R, Premkumar B, Michael JS, Radha V, Zwerling A, Schiller I, Dendukuri N, Pai M. Tuberculosis infection among young nursing trainees in South India. PLoS One. 2010 Apr 29;5(4):e10408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010408. PMID: 20454447; PMCID: PMC2861589.
Bal SK, Gupta R, Irodi A, Nair A, Mathew J, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. To immunosuppress or not: Behcet's syndrome presenting as an eosinophilic pleural effusion. Lung India. 2017 Sep-Oct;34(5):457-460. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_471_16. PMID: 28869232; PMCID: PMC5592759. Link
GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. Electronic address: cjlm@uw.edu; GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet. 2017 Jul 15;390(10091):231-266. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30818-8. Epub 2017 May 18. PMID: 28528753; PMCID: PMC5528124.
Tandur R, Irodi A, Chacko BR, Vimala LR, Christopher DJ, Gnanamuthu BR. Magnetic resonance imaging as an adjunct to computed tomography in the diagnosis of pulmonary Hydatid cysts. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2018 Jul-Sep;28(3):342-349. doi: 10.4103/ijri.IJRI_121_18. PMID: 30319213; PMCID: PMC6176659. Link
Priya N, Isaac BTJ, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Effect of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation on health-related quality of life, lung function, exercise tolerance, and dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder patients in a tertiary care center in South India. Lung India. 2021 May-Jun;38(3):211-215. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_895_20. PMID: 33942743; PMCID: PMC8194434.
Balamugesh T, Christopher DJ, George B, Rajesh T. Strongyloidosis hyperinfection in a neutropenic host diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2007 Jan-Mar;49(1):37-9. PMID: 17256565.
Irodi A, Chacko BR, Prajapati A, Prabhu AJ, Vimala LR, Christopher DJ, Gnanamuthu BR. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumours of the thorax: Radiologic and clinicopathological correlation. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2020 Jul-Sep;30(3):266-272. doi: 10.4103/ijri.IJRI_93_20. Epub 2020 Oct 15. PMID: 33273759; PMCID: PMC7694718. Link
Paul A, Christopher DJ, Thangakunam B. The puzzle of lymphoma among the granulomatous disorders. Lung India. 2019 Mar-Apr;36(2):164-166. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_395_17. PMID: 30829255; PMCID: PMC6410593.
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ, Mathews V, Srivastava A. Mesenchymal stromal stem cell therapy in advanced interstitial lung disease - Anaphylaxis and short-term follow-up. Lung India. 2015 Sep-Oct;32(5):486-8. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.164156. PMID: 26628765; PMCID: PMC4587005. Link
Ninan MM, Gowri M, Christopher DJ, Rupali P, Michael JS. The diagnostic utility of line probe assays for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Pathog Glob Health. 2016 Jun-Jul;110(4-5):194-9. doi: 10.1080/20477724.2016.1214350. Epub 2016 Aug 8. PMID: 27499239; PMCID: PMC5072114.
Vyas S, Thangakunam B, Gupta R, Michael JS, Christopher DJ. Interferon gamma release assay and tuberculin skin test positivity in sarcoidosis. Lung India. 2015 Jan-Feb;32(1):91-2. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.148467. PMID: 25624613; PMCID: PMC4298936. Link
Duraikannan P, Saheer S, Balamugesh T, Christopher DJ. Rare cause of paradoxical worsening of pleural effusion in a patient with tuberculosis. Lung India. 2017 Mar-Apr;34(2):167-169. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.201315. PMID: 28360466; PMCID: PMC5351360.
Koul PA, Chaudhari S, Chokhani R, Christopher D, Dhar R, Doshi K, Ghoshal A, Luhadiya SK, Mahashur A, Mehta R, Nene A, Rahman M, Swarnakar R. Pneumococcal disease burden from an Indian perspective: Need for its prevention in pulmonology practice. Lung India. 2019 May-Jun;36(3):216-225. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_497_18. PMID: 31031342; PMCID: PMC6503715.
Salvi, Sundeep, Kumar, G. Anil, Dhaliwal, R. S., Paulson, Katherine, Agrawal, Anurag, Koul, Parvaiz A., Mahesh, P. A., Nair, Sanjeev, Singh, Virendra, Aggarwal, Ashutosh N., Christopher, D. J., The burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their heterogeneity across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016 The Lancet Global Health; 2018, 6 (12): E1363-E1374 Link
Glassberg MK, Minkiewicz J, Toonkel RL, Simonet ES, Rubio GA, DiFede D, Shafazand S, Khan A, Pujol MV, LaRussa VF, Lancaster LH, Rosen GD, Fishman J, Mageto YN, Mendizabal A, Hare JM. Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis via Intravenous Delivery (AETHER): A Phase I Safety Clinical Trial. Chest. 2017 May;151(5):971-981. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.10.061. Epub 2016 Nov 24. PMID: 27890713; PMCID: PMC6026255. Link
Denkinger CM, Kalantri Y, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Shankar D, Saxena A, Sriram N, Balamugesh T, Luo R, Pollock NR, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 23;8(12):e85447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085447. PMID: 24376880; PMCID: PMC3871622.
Chawla RK, Christopher DJ, Dhar R, Yuvarajan S, Chopra K, Samaria JK, Singh V, Gupta N, Kaul P, Swarankar R, Madan A, Kumar M, Chawla AK, Sharma S, Chaudhary G, Chawla MK. Thoracoscopic practices in India-a survey by Indian chest society. Indian J Tuberc. 2021 Oct;68(4):485-490. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.02.011. Epub 2021 Mar 3. PMID: 34752318.
Global Burden of Disease 2019 Cancer Collaboration, Kocarnik JM, Compton K, Dean FE, Fu W, Gaw BL, Harvey JD, Henrikson HJ, Lu D, Pennini A, Xu R, Ababneh E, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Abbastabar H, Abd-Elsalam SM, Abdoli A, Abedi A, Abidi H, Abolhassani H, Adedeji IA, Adnani QES, Advani SM, Afzal MS, Aghaali M, Ahinkorah BO, Ahmad S, Ahmad T, Ahmadi A, Ahmadi S, Ahmed Rashid T, Ahmed Salih Y, Akalu GT, Aklilu A, Akram T, Akunna CJ, Al Hamad H, Alahdab F, Al-Aly Z, Ali S, Alimohamadi Y, Alipour V, Aljunid SM, Alkhayyat M, Almasi-Hashiani A, Almasri NA, Al-Maweri SAA, Almustanyir S, Alonso N, Alvis-Guzman N, Amu H, Anbesu EW, Ancuceanu R, Ansari F, Ansari-Moghaddam A, Antwi MH, Anvari D, Anyasodor AE, Aqeel M, Arabloo J, Arab-Zozani M, Aremu O, Ariffin H, Aripov T, Arshad M, Artaman A, Arulappan J, Asemi Z, Asghari Jafarabadi M, Ashraf T, Atorkey P, Aujayeb A, Ausloos M, Awedew AF, Ayala Quintanilla BP, Ayenew T, Azab MA, Azadnajafabad S, Azari Jafari A, Azarian G, Azzam AY, Badiye AD, Bahadory S, Baig AA, Baker JL, Balakrishnan S, Banach M, Bärnighausen TW, Barone-Adesi F, Barra F, Barrow A, Behzadifar M, Belgaumi UI, Bezabhe WMM, Bezabih YM, Bhagat DS, Bhagavathula AS, Bhardwaj N, Bhardwaj P, Bhaskar S, Bhattacharyya K, Bhojaraja VS, Bibi S, Bijani A, Biondi A, Bisignano C, Bjørge T, Bleyer A, Blyuss O, Bolarinwa OA, Bolla SR, Braithwaite D, Brar A, Brenner H, Bustamante-Teixeira MT, Butt NS, Butt ZA, Caetano Dos Santos FL, Cao Y, Carreras G, Catalá-López F, Cembranel F, Cerin E, Cernigliaro A, Chakinala RC, Chattu SK, Chattu VK, Chaturvedi P, Chimed-Ochir O, Cho DY, Christopher DJ, Chu DT, Chung MT, Conde J, Cortés S, Cortesi PA, Costa VM, Cunha AR, Dadras O, Dagnew AB, Dahlawi SMA, Dai X, Dandona L, Dandona R, Darwesh AM, das Neves J, De la Hoz FP, Demis AB, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Dhamnetiya D, Dhimal ML, Dhimal M, Dianatinasab M, Diaz D, Djalalinia S, Do HP, Doaei S, Dorostkar F, Dos Santos Figueiredo FW, Driscoll TR, Ebrahimi H, Eftekharzadeh S, El Tantawi M, El-Abid H, Elbarazi I, Elhabashy HR, Elhadi M, El-Jaafary SI, Eshrati B, Eskandarieh S, Esmaeilzadeh F, Etemadi A, Ezzikouri S, Faisaluddin M, Faraon EJA, Fares J, Farzadfar F, Feroze AH, Ferrero S, Ferro Desideri L, Filip I, Fischer F, Fisher JL, Foroutan M, Fukumoto T, Gaal PA, Gad MM, Gadanya MA, Gallus S, Gaspar Fonseca M, Getachew Obsa A, Ghafourifard M, Ghashghaee A, Ghith N, Gholamalizadeh M, Gilani SA, Ginindza TG, Gizaw ATT, Glasbey JC, Golechha M, Goleij P, Gomez RS, Gopalani SV, Gorini G, Goudarzi H, Grosso G, Gubari MIM, Guerra MR, Guha A, Gunasekera DS, Gupta B, Gupta VB, Gupta VK, Gutiérrez RA, Hafezi-Nejad N, Haider MR, Haj-Mirzaian A, Halwani R, Hamadeh RR, Hameed S, Hamidi S, Hanif A, Haque S, Harlianto NI, Haro JM, Hasaballah AI, Hassanipour S, Hay RJ, Hay SI, Hayat K, Heidari G, Heidari M, Herrera-Serna BY, Herteliu C, Hezam K, Holla R, Hossain MM, Hossain MBH, Hosseini MS, Hosseini M, Hosseinzadeh M, Hostiuc M, Hostiuc S, Househ M, Hsairi M, Huang J, Hugo FN, 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Yunusa I, Zadnik V, Zare F, Zastrozhin MS, Zastrozhina A, Zhang J, Zhong C, Zhou L, Zhu C, Ziapour A, Zimmermann IR, Fitzmaurice C, Murray CJL, Force LM. Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Dec 30:e216987. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.6987. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34967848; PMCID: PMC8719276. Link
Christopher DJ, Coelho V, Ebby GS, Shankar D, Gupta R, Thangakunam B. Incremental yield of Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra over Xpert® MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2021 Nov 1;25(11):939-944. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0280. PMID: 34686237. Link
Thomas, Rajesh MD, DNB, Christopher, Devasahayam J. DNB, FCCP, Thangakunam, Balamugesh MD, DM, Thomas, Meera MD, Mathew, Prasad MD Rare Manifestation of Sarcoidosis as Endobronchial Mass, Journal of Bronchology: January 2008 - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - p 44-45 doi: 10.1097/LBR.0b013e3181604f49
van der Heijden YF, Abdullah F, Andrade BB, Andrews JR, Christopher DJ, Croda J, Ewing H, Haas DW, Hatherill M, Horsburgh CR Jr, Mave V, Nakaya HI, Rolla V, Srinivasan S, Sugiyono RI, Ugarte-Gil C, Hamilton C. Building capacity for advances in tuberculosis research; proceedings of the third RePORT international meeting. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2018 Dec;113:153-162. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2018.09.009. Epub 2018 Oct 1. PMID: 30514497; PMCID: PMC6349374. Link
Thomas R, Turaka VP, Peter JV, Christopher DJ, Balamugesh T, Mahasampath G, Mathuram AJ, Sadiq M, Ramya I, George T, Chandireseharan V, George T, Sudarsanam TD. Good survival rate, moderate overall and good respirator quality of life, near normal pulmonary functions, and good return to work despite catastrophic economic costs 6 months following recovery from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Lung India. 2022 Mar-Apr;39(2):169-173. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_6_21. PMID: 35259800; PMCID: PMC9053934.
Hamilton CD, Swaminathan S, Christopher DJ, Ellner J, Gupta A, Sterling TR, Rolla V, Srinivasan S, Karyana M, Siddiqui S, Stoszek SK, Kim P. RePORT International: Advancing Tuberculosis Biomarker Research Through Global Collaboration. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Oct 15;61Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S155-9. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ611. PMID: 26409277; PMCID: PMC4583572.
Isaac BT, Christopher DJ, Thangakunam B, Gupta M. Tracheal schwannoma: Completely resected with therapeutic bronchoscopic techniques. Lung India. 2015 May-Jun;32(3):271-3. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.156252. PMID: 25983416; PMCID: PMC4429392. Link
Isaac BT, Thangakunam B, Cherian RA, Christopher DJ. The correlation of symptoms, pulmonary function tests and exercise testing with high-resolution computed tomography in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in South India. Lung India. 2015 Nov-Dec;32(6):584-8. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.168131. PMID: 26664164; PMCID: PMC4663861.
Daniel J, Thangakunam B, Isaac BTJ, Moorthy M, Christopher DJ. Recurrent COVID-19 infection in a case of rituximab-induced hypogammaglobulinaemia. Respirol Case Rep. 2021 Dec 7;10(1):e0891 .doi: 10.1002/rcr2.891. PMID: 34934508; PMCID: PMC8652043.
Thangakunam B, Bal SK, Venkatapathy AV, Irodi A, Christopher DJ. A rare cause of ventilatory failure in a patient with post-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. Lung India. 2017 Jul-Aug;34(4):390-392. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.209246. PMID: 28671175; PMCID: PMC5504901.
Thangakunam B, Isaac BTJ, Christopher DJ. Endobronchial ultrasound experience in a high tuberculosis prevalence setting. Indian J Tuberc. 2017 Jul;64(3):196-200. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2016.11.035. Epub 2017 Feb 13. PMID: 28709488.
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. The Audio Study: Thoracoscopic Pleural Biopsy May Be Even Better. Chest. 2019 Mar;155(3):649-650. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.11.024. PMID: 30846072; PMCID: PMC6436960.
Isaac BTJ, Priya N, Nair AA, Thangakunam B, Balachandran A, George T, Thomas SM, George TK, Iyadurai R, Kumar SS, Zachariah A, Singh B, Rupali P, Pichamuthu K, Gupta R, Daniel J, Sasikumar JR, Chandy ST, Christopher DJ. Treatment of COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome With a Tabletop Noninvasive Ventilation Device in a Respiratory Intermediate Care Unit. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2022 Jun;6(3):239-249. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2022.04.001. Epub 2022 Apr 19. PMID: 35463482; PMCID: PMC9015959. Link
Kaswala C, Schmiedel Y, Kundu D, George MM, Dayanand D, Devasagayam E, Manesh S A, Kumar SS, Michael JS, Ninan MM, Chacko G, Zachariah A, Sathyendra S, Hansdak SG, Iyadurai R, Christopher DJ, Gupta R, Karthik R, Abraham OC, Varghese GM. Accuracy of Gene Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adult patients: A retrospective cohort study. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Jul 7:S1201-9712(22)00410-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.016. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35811084. Link
Vedanthan PK, Christopher DJ, Gupta N. Allergy training in India. Clin Exp Allergy. 2022 Jul;52(7):833-835. doi: 10.1111/cea.14178. PMID: 35795975.
Jesudas CD, Thangakunam B. Tuberculosis risk in health care workers. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2013 Jul-Sep;55(3):149-54. PMID: 24380222.
Denkinger CM, Kalantri Y, Schumacher SG, Michael JS, Shankar D, Saxena A, Sriram N, Balamugesh T, Luo R, Pollock NR, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 23;8(12):e85447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085447. PMID: 24376880; PMCID: PMC3871622.
Chacko BR, Irodi A, Jesudason BI, Devasahayam CJ. Unusual mediastinal cystic lesions with air fluid level. Trop Doct. 2012 Oct;42(4):221-2. doi: 10.1258/td.2012.120193. Epub 2012 Aug 30. PMID: 22936372.
Nair AA, Rv L, Christopher DJ. 'Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as massive spontaneous pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema'. Thorax. 2022 Nov;77(11):1154. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2022-218908. Epub 2022 Jun 16. PMID: 35710745.
Anushikha Singh, Brejesh Lall, B.K. Panigrahi, Anjali Agrawal, Anurag Agrawal, Balamugesh Thangakunam, D.J. Christopher, Deep LF-Net: Semantic lung segmentation from Indian chest radiographs including severely unhealthy images, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 68,2021,102666,doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102666.
Bal SK, Gupta R, Vimala LR, Paul A, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. A Curious Case of a Low-Protein Pleural Effusion. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2016 Jul;23(3):e23-4. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000280. PMID: 27454476.
Bal SK, Thangakunam B, Irodi A, Gupta M, Christopher DJ. Small Sample Lung Biopsy Findings in Patients With Clinicoradiologic Suspicion of Pulmonary Venoocclusive Disease-Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2016 Oct;23(4):308-315. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000320. PMID: 27623416. Link
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Barrier enclosure device: More scientific evidence is required. Lung India. 2021 Jan-Feb;38(1):104. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_722_20. PMID: 33402654; PMCID: PMC8066921.
Christopher DJ, Isaac BT, Thangakunam B. The link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19. Lung India. 2021 Mar;38(Supplement):S4-S5. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_921_20. PMID: 33686972; PMCID: PMC8104352. Link
Christopher DJ, Oommen AM, George K, Shankar D, Agrawal A, Thangakunam B. Prevalence of Airflow Obstruction as Measured by Spirometry, in Rural Southern Indian Adults. COPD. 2020 Apr;17(2):128-135. doi: 10.1080/15412555.2020.1723074. Epub 2020 Feb 5. PMID: 32020813.
Rohit K.O.a Rohit K.O.;Thangakunam, Balamugesha;Mehta, Vinayb;Christopher, Devasahayam J.a;James, Princea Evaluation of humoral immune deficiency in Indian patients with bilateral bronchiectasis with no apparent aetiology Lung India Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 33 - 36January 2023 DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_319_22
Singh A, Lall B, Panigrahi BK, Agrawal A, Agrawal A, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Semantic segmentation of bone structures in chest X-rays including unhealthy radiographs: A robust and accurate approach. Int J Med Inform. 2022 Sep;165:104831. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104831. Epub 2022 Jul 18. PMID: 35870303. Link
Salvi SS, Ghorpade D, Dhoori S, Dhar R, Dumra H, Chhajed PN, Bhattacharya P, Rajan S, Talwar D, Christopher DJ, Mohan M, Udwadia Z. Role of antifibrotic drugs in the management of post-COVID-19 interstitial lung disease: A review of literature and report from an expert working group. Lung India. 2022 Mar-Apr;39(2):177-186. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_659_21. Erratum in: Lung India. 2022 May-Jun;39(3):310. PMID: 35259802; PMCID: PMC9053913.
Christopher DJ, Natania A, Daniel J, Balamugesh T, Isaac B, Krishna MT. Prevalence of drug allergy labels in a tertiary pulmonary service in South India. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Jul;53(7):781-784. doi: 10.1111/cea.14365. Epub 2023 Jun 26. PMID: 37365847.
Daniel J, Gupta R, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Undiagnosed Asthma-COPD overlap among patients diagnosed as Asthma and COPD in a referral hospital, India. Heliyon. 2023 Mar 22;9(4):e14711. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14711. PMID: 37025820; PMCID: PMC10070599.
Nair AA, Christopher DJ, Moidu F, Chandran D. Superior vena caval obstruction: a rare presentation of Behcet's disease. BMJ Case Rep. 2020 Dec 17;13(12):e236658. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-236658. PMID: 33334747; PMCID: PMC7747549.
GBD 2019 Tuberculosis Collaborators. Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Infect Dis. 2022 Feb;22(2):222-241. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00449-7. Epub 2021 Sep 23. PMID: 34563275; PMCID: PMC8799634.
Mahesh PA, Moitra S, Mabalirajan U, Garg M, Malamardi S, Vedanthan PK, Christopher DJ, Agrawal A, Krishna MT. Allergic diseases in India - Prevalence, risk factors and current challenges. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Mar;53(3):276-294. doi: 10.1111/cea.14239. Epub 2022 Oct 24. PMID: 36181726.
Christopher DJ, Mohan BVM, Singla R, Koul PA. Pulmonary function testing during the COVID-19 pandemicin. Lung India. 2021 Mar;38(Supplement):S92-S96. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_738_20. PMID: 33686990; PMCID: PMC8104351.
Ramachandran G, Hemanth Kumar AK, Kannan T, Thangakunam B, Shankar D, Christopher DJ. Pharmacokinetics of rifampicin, isoniazid & pyrazinamide during daily & intermittent dosing: A preliminary study. Indian J Med Res. 2023 Feb-Mar;157(2&3):211-215. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1835_19. PMID: 36861539; PMCID: PMC10319390.
Christopher DJ, Isaac BT, Rupali P, Thangakunam B. Health-care preparedness and health-care worker protection in COVID-19 pandemic. Lung India. 2020 May-Jun;37(3):238-245. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_189_20. PMID: 32367846; PMCID: PMC7353937.
Christopher DJ, Natania A, Daniel J, Balamugesh T, Isaac B, Krishna MT. Prevalence of drug allergy labels in a tertiary pulmonary service in South India. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Jul;53(7):781-784. doi: 10.1111/cea.14365. Epub 2023 Jun 26. PMID: 37365847.
Alexander H, Gunasekaran K, Sara John J, Gracelin Princy Zacchaeus N, Samuel P, Jasmine S, Devasahayam Jesudas Christopher, Pichamuthu K, Rupali P. Evaluation of Remdesivir to the outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection in a tertiary-care hospital in southern India. J Infect Dev Ctries. 2023 Mar 31;17(3):304-310. doi: 10.3855/jidc.16642. PMID: 37023432.
Mahesh PA, Moitra S, Mabalirajan U, Garg M, Malamardi S, Vedanthan PK, Christopher DJ, Agrawal A, Krishna MT. Allergic diseases in India - Prevalence, risk factors and current challenges. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Mar;53(3):276-294. doi: 10.1111/cea.14239. Epub 2022 Oct 24. PMID: 36181726.
Peringattuthodiyil Y, Christopher DJ, Balamugesh T, Saheer S. Aberrant arterial supply to left lung. Lung India. 2015 May-Jun;32(3):287-8. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.156257. PMID: 25983421; PMCID: PMC4429397. Link
Krishna MT, Mahesh PA, Vedanthan P, Moitra S, Mehta V, Christopher DJ. An appraisal of allergic disorders in India and an urgent call for action. World Allergy Organ J. 2020 Aug 1;13(7):100446. doi: 10.1016/j.waojou.2020.100446. PMID: 32774662; PMCID: PMC7398972.
Kaswala C, Schmiedel Y, Kundu D, George MM, Dayanand D, Devasagayam E, S AM, Kumar SS, Michael JS, Ninan MM, Chacko G, Zachariah A, Sathyendra S, Hansdak SG, Iyadurai R, Christopher DJ, Gupta R, Karthik R, Abraham OC, Varghese GM. Accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adult patients: a retrospective cohort study. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Sep;122:566-568. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.016. Epub 2022 Jul 8. PMID: 35811084.
George B, Moorthy M, Kulkarni U, Selvarajan S, Rupali P, Christopher DJ, Balamugesh T, Rose W, Lakshmi KM, Devasia AJ, Fouzia NA, Korula A, Lionel S, Abraham A, Mathews V. Single Dose of Ivermectin is not Useful in Patients with Hematological Disorders and COVID-19 Illness: A Phase II B Open Labelled Randomized Controlled Trial. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2022 May 27:1-8. doi: 10.1007/s12288-022-01546-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35669353; PMCID: PMC9135993.
Schumacher SG, Thangakunam B, Denkinger CM, Oliver AA, Shakti KB, Qin ZZ, Michael JS, Luo R, Pai M, Christopher DJ. Impact of point-of-care implementation of Xpert® MTB/RIF: product vs. process innovation. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 Sep;19(9):1084-90. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0120. PMID: 26260830.
Chhajed PN, Nene A, Abhyankar N, Akkaraju J, Agarwal R, Arora S, Bhat R, Chawla R, Christopher DJ, Chowdhary SR, Dhar R, Dhooria S, Goyal R, Gupta R, James P, Koul PA, Khader AKA, Madan K, Marwah V, Mehta R, Mohan A, Nangia V, Patel D, Pattabhiraman VR, Sehgal IS, Singh S, Srinivasan A, Swarnakar R, Tampi S. Conventional flexible bronchoscopy during the COVID pandemic: A consensus statement from the Indian Association for Bronchology. Lung India. 2021 Mar;38(Supplement):S105-S115. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_953_20. PMID: 33686993; PMCID: PMC8104343.
Daniel J, Thangakunam B, Isaac BTJ, Moorthy M, Christopher DJ. Recurrent COVID-19 infection in a case of rituximab-induced hypogammaglobulinaemia. Respirol Case Rep. 2021 Dec 7;10(1):e0891. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.891. PMID: 34934508; PMCID: PMC8652043. Link
Christopher DJ, Isaac BT, Thangakunam B. Preparedness to face the COVID-19 pandemic - is India missing the mark? J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):020338. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020338. PMID: 33214883; PMCID: PMC7648878.
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Xpert Ultra Is Better Than Xpert, but Using Biopsy Samples May Be Even Better. Chest. 2020 Aug;158(2):829-830. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.02.078. PMID: 32768069.
Nair AA, Gupta R, James P, Irodi A, Christopher DJ, Thangagunam B. The safety and tolerability of pirfenidone in Indian patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Curr Med Issues 2022;20(1):27-31. DOI: 10.4103/cmi.cmi_89_21
Nair A, Christopher DJ, Danda D. Mycophenolate in scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease: Real-world data from rheumatology and pulmonology clinics in South Asia. J Scleroderma Relat Disord. 2021 Oct;6(3):271-276. doi: 10.1177/23971983211024410. Epub 2021 Jun 30. PMID: 35387216; PMCID: PMC8922665.
Paul A, Paul A, Subhash I, Yadav B, Jacob JR, Christopher DJ, Balamugesh T. Atrial depolarization abnormalities in pulmonary sarcoidosis. Egypt Heart J. 2022 Oct 8;74(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s43044-022-00312-7. PMID: 36209309; PMCID: PMC9547766.
Bermingham WH, Bhogal R, Arudi Nagarajan S, Mutlu L, El-Shabrawy RM, Madhan R, Krishnaswamy UM, Murali MR, Kudagammana ST, Shrestha R, Sumantri S, Christopher DJ, Mahesh PA, Dedicoat M, Krishna MT. Practical management of suspected hypersensitivity reactions to anti-tuberculosis drugs. Clin Exp Allergy. 2022 Mar;52(3):375-386. doi: 10.1111/cea.14084. Epub 2022 Jan 20. PMID: 34939251.
Vyas S, Thangakunam B, Gupta R, Michael JS, Christopher DJ. Interferon gamma release assay and tuberculin skin test positivity in sarcoidosis. Lung India. 2015 Jan-Feb;32(1):91-2. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.148467. PMID: 25624613; PMCID: PMC4298936.
Thangakunam B, Roger J, Isaac B, Mangal D, Barney A, Gupta R, Christopher DJ. Dyspnoea in patients presenting to post-COVID respiratory clinic not fully explained by lung function impairment and chest radiography abnormalities. Lung India. 2023 May-Jun;40(3):296-298. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_554_22. PMID: 37148036; PMCID: PMC10298822.
Dhar R, Ghoshal AG, Guleria R, Sharma S, Kulkarni T, Swarnakar R, Samaria JK, Chaudhary S, Gaur SN, Christopher DJ, Singh V, Abraham G, Sarkar A, Mukhopadhyay A, Panda J, Swaminathan S, Nene A, Krishnan S, Shahi PK, Sarangdhar N, Mishra N, Chowdury SR, Halder I, Katiyar SK, Jain VK, Chawla R, Koul PA. Clinical practice guidelines 2019: Indian consensus-based recommendations on influenza vaccination in adults. Lung India. 2020 Aug;37(Supplement):S4-S18. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_270_20. PMID: 32830789; PMCID: PMC7703812.
Singh RK, Thangakunam B, Isaac B, Christopher DJ. Cannonball shadow in the lungs and pulmonary embolism in a young man. BMJ Case Rep. 2013 Jul 12;2013:bcr2012007541. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2012-007541. PMID: 23853007; PMCID: PMC3736267.
Singh RK, Christopher DJ, Isaac TJ, Jeyaraj V, Balamugesh T. Endobronchial rhinosporidiosis. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2013 Apr;20(2):164-6. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0b013e31828cf4a0. PMID: 23609254.
Hadda V, Suri TM, Iyer H, Jain A, Mittal S, Madan K, Mohan A, Seith Bhalla A, Sindhwani G, Dutt N, Venkatnarayan K, Nath A, Dhooria S, Kumar R, Marwah V, Karmakar S, Chaudhry D, Ayub II, Dwivedi DP, Tiwari P, Koul P, Behera AK, Saxena P, Sengupta A, Mohapatra PR, Goyal A, Christopher DJ, Guleria R. A Delphi consensus statement for the management of post-COVID interstitial lung disease. Expert Rev Respir Med. 2022 Sep 26. doi: 10.1080/17476348.2022.2128770. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36154545.
Kundavaram APP, Selvan S, Raja V, Mathiyalagan P, Kanagarajan R, Reddy NP, Rajendiran N, Hazra D, Gunasekaran K, Moorthy M, Lenin A, Mathew D, Iyyadurai R, Varghese GM, Dj C, Joy M, Peter JV. Retrospective study of comparison of clinical severity and outcome of hospitalised COVID-19 patients during the first and second waves of the pandemic in India. BMJ Open. 2022 Nov 21;12(11):e062724. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062724. PMID: 36410807; PMCID: PMC9679869. Link
Rohit KO, Thangakunam B, Mehta V, Christopher DJ, James P. Evaluation of humoral immune deficiency in Indian patients with bilateral bronchiectasis with no apparent aetiology. Lung India. 2023 Jan-Feb;40(1):33-36. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_319_22. PMID: 36695256; PMCID: PMC9894279. Link
Isaac BTJ, Kirupakaran H, Barney AM, Christopher DJ. Lessons from healthcare personnel screening and management during H1N1 pandemic in preparation for the impending COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital in India. Indian J Tuberc. 2020 Dec;67(4S):S122-S127. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2020.07.024. Epub 2020 Jul 29. PMID: 33308657; PMCID: PMC7388779
Katiyar SK, Gaur SN, Solanki RN, Sarangdhar N, Suri JC, Kumar R, Khilnani GC, Chaudhary D, Singla R, Koul PA, Mahashur AA, Ghoshal AG, Behera D, Christopher DJ, Talwar D, Ganguly D, Paramesh H, Gupta KB, Kumar T M, Motiani PD, Shankar PS, Chawla R, Guleria R, Jindal SK, Luhadia SK, Arora VK, Vijayan VK, Faye A, Jindal A, Murar AK, Jaiswal A, M A, Janmeja AK, Prajapat B, Ravindran C, Bhattacharyya D, D'Souza G, Sehgal IS, Samaria JK, Sarma J, Singh L, Sen MK, Bainara MK, Gupta M, Awad NT, Mishra N, Shah NN, Jain N, Mohapatra PR, Mrigpuri P, Tiwari P, Narasimhan R, Kumar RV, Prasad R, Swarnakar R, Chawla RK, Kumar R, Chakrabarti S, Katiyar S, Mittal S, Spalgais S, Saha S, Kant S, Singh VK, Hadda V, Kumar V, Singh V, Chopra V, B V. Indian Guidelines on Nebulization Therapy. Indian J Tuberc. 2022;69 Suppl 1:S1-S191. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2022.06.004. Epub 2022 Jul 11. PMID: 36372542.
Saheer S, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ, George B. Lenalidomide-induced diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. Lung India. 2014 Jan;31(1):90-1. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.126004. PMID: 24669097; PMCID: PMC3960826.
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. he Audio Study: Thoracoscopic Pleural Biopsy May Be Even Better. Chest. 2019 Mar;155(3):649-650. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.11.024. PMID: 30846072; PMCID: PMC6436960.
Huddart S, Asege L, Jaganath D, Golla M, Dang H, Lovelina L, Derendinger B, Andama A, Christopher DJ, Nhung NV, Theron G, Denkinger CM, Nahid P, Cattamanchi A, Yu C. Continuous cough monitoring: a novel digital biomarker for TB diagnosis and treatment response monitoring. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2023 Mar 1;27(3):221-222. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0511. PMID: 36855045; PMCID: PMC9983626.
Jasper A, Gibikote S, Kirupakaran H, Christopher DJ, Mathews P. Is routine pre-entry chest radiograph necessary in a high tuberculosis prevalence country? J Postgrad Med. 2020 Apr-Jun;66(2):90-93. doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_462_19. PMID: 32270779; PMCID: PMC7239409.
Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Well Done, but Subsequent Doses May Be Vital. Chest. 2018 Jan;153(1):287. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.09.053. PMID: 29307425.
Christopher DJ, Oommen AM, George K, Premkumar PS, Shankar D, Agrawal A, Thangakunam B. Rural South Indian spirometry values show wide variation compared to existing prediction equations. Lung India. 2023 May-Jun;40(3):193-199. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_336_22. PMID: 37148014; PMCID: PMC10298811. Link
Isaac BT, Datey A, Christopher DJ. Successful removal of self-expanding metallic stent after deployment for tubercular bronchostenosis. Indian J Tuberc. 2016 Jan;63(1):55-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2015.07.013. Epub 2016 May 4. PMID: 27235947.
Subhash HS, Christopher DJ, Roy A, Cherian AM. Pulmonary nocardiosis in human immunodeficiency virus infection: a tuberculosis mimic. J Postgrad Med. 2001 Jan-Mar;47(1):30-2. PMID: 11590288. Link
Thangakunam B, Isaac BT, Christopher DJ, Burad D. Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis - A rare idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. Respir Med Case Rep. 2015 Nov 22;17:8-11. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.11.004. PMID: 27141432; PMCID: PMC4821335.
Ramachandran K, Thankagunam B, Karuppusami R, Christopher DJ. Physician Related Delays in the Diagnosis of Lung Cancer in India. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Nov;10(11):OC05-OC08. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/22737.8823. Epub 2016 Nov 1. PMID: 28050418; PMCID: PMC5198371.
Atreya S, Jeba J, Patil CR, Iyer R, Christopher DJ, Rajan S. Perspectives of Respiratory Physicians toward Need and Integration of Palliative Care in Advanced Respiratory Diseases. Indian J Palliat Care. 2022 Jul-Sep;28(3):314-320. doi: 10.25259/IJPC_7_2022. Epub 2022 Apr 27. PMID: 36072243; PMCID: PMC9443121
Gupta R, James P, Thangakunam B, Christopher DJ. Medical thoracoscopic removal of a metal needle from the pleural space. BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Oct 9;2014:bcr2014207035. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207035. PMID: 25301430; PMCID: PMC4195211.
Dumra H, Sainani R, Pratap N, Singh BP, Halder I, Shah J, Thakkar M, V MK, Abhyankar N, Bose PP, Gokalani R, Aggarwal V, Christopher DJ. Expert Recommendations on Optimizing the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Associated with Comorbidities in the Indian Population. J Assoc Physicians India. 2023 Aug;71(8):11-12. doi: 10.59556/japi.71.0269. PMID: 37651248.
Daniel J, Christopher DJ. Strategies to tackle the unmet need for asthma and allergy services in India. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Jul;53(7):693-696. doi: 10.1111/cea.14361. PMID: 37401046.
Christopher DJ, Isaac BT, Thangakunam B. Home versus institutional isolation of mild COVID-19 patients. Lung India. 2021 Mar;38(Supplement):S78-S79. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_439_20. PMID: 33686987; PMCID: PMC8104353.
Paul A, Peringattuthodiyil Y, Christopher DJ, Thangakunam B. Young onset hemoptysis: A rare cause of pulmonary arterial aneurysm. Lung India. 2016 May-Jun;33(3):345-7. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.180952. PMID: 27186006; PMCID: PMC4857578.
John N, Thangakunam B, Devasahayam AJ, Peravali V, Christopher DJ. Maximal oxygen uptake is lower for a healthy Indian population compared to white populations. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2011 Sep-Oct;31(5):322-7. doi: 10.1097/HCR.0b013e318220a7b0. PMID: 21734591.
Jindal SK, Aggarwal AN, Christopher DJ, Dhar R, Jindal A. Face masks - a sustainable measure to mitigate COVID-19. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2020 Jun 1;24(6):645-647. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.20.0220. PMID: 32552995.
Jindal SK, Aggarwal AN, Christopher DJ, Dhar R, Jindal A. Face masks - a sustainable measure to mitigate COVID-19. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2020 Jun 1;24(6):645-647. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.20.0220. PMID: 32552995.
Thomas RV, Christopher DJ, Nair S, Seshadri MS, Cherian AM. Behcet's disease: a case report. J Indian Med Assoc. 1995 Apr;93(4):151-3. PMID: 8699044. Link
Christopher DJ, Priya N, Shankar D, Isaac B, DeLuca A, Sarkar S, Prakash Babu S, Samuel P, Cattamanchi A, Gupta A, Ellner J, Srinivasan S, Cox S, Thangakunam B. Tuberculin test using Indian indigenous purified-protein derivative (PPD) shows only moderate agreement with international standard PPD. J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis. 2023 Dec 1;34:100404. doi: 10.1016/j.jctube.2023.100404. PMID: 38174327; PMCID: PMC10761766.
Christopher DJ, Isaac BTJ, John FB, Shankar D, Samuel P, Gupta R, Thangakunam B. Impact of post-COVID-19 lung damage on pulmonary function, exercise tolerance and quality of life in Indian subjects. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Feb 1;4(2):e0002884. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002884. PMID: 38300923; PMCID: PMC10833535. Link
Gupta-Wright A, Ha H, Abdulgadar S, Crowder R, Emmanuel J, Mukwatamundu J, Marcelo D, Phillips PPJ, Christopher DJ, Nhung NV, Theron G, Yu C, Nahid P, Cattamanchi A, Worodria W, Denkinger CM; R2D2 TB Network. Evaluation of the Xpert MTB Host Response assay for the triage of patients with presumed pulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study in Viet Nam, India, the Philippines, Uganda, and South Africa. Lancet Glob Health. 2024 Feb;12(2):e226-e234. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00541-7. PMID: 38245113.
Krishna MT, Liyanage G, Shrestha R, Jordan RE, Christopher DJ. An urgent need for capacity building towards establishment of drug allergy management systems in the Indian sub-continent. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2023 Nov 8;20:100320. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100320. PMID: 38234704; PMCID: PMC10794096.
Sinha P, Ponnuraja C, Gupte N, Prakash Babu S, Cox SR, Sarkar S, Mave V, Paradkar M, Cintron C, Govindarajan S, Kinikar A, Priya N, Gaikwad S, Thangakunam B, Devarajan A, Dhanasekaran M, Tornheim JA, Gupta A, Salgame P, Christopher DJ, Kornfeld H, Viswanathan V, Ellner JJ, Horsburgh CR, Gupte AN, Padmapriyadarsini C, Hochberg NS. Impact of Undernutrition on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in India: A Multicenter, Prospective, Cohort Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 17;76(8):1483-1491. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac915. PMID: 36424864; PMCID: PMC10319769.
McQuilten ZK, Venkatesh B, Jha V, Roberts J, Morpeth SC, Totterdell JA, McPhee GM, Abraham J, Bam N, Bandara M, Bangi AK, Barina LA, Basnet BK, Bhally H, Bhusal KR, Bogati U, Bowen AC, Burke AJ, Christopher DJ, Chunilal SD, Cochrane B, Curnow JL, Das SK, Dhungana A, Di Tanna GL, Dotel R, DSouza H, Dummer J, Dutta S, Foo H, Gilbey TL, Giles ML, Goli K, Gordon A, Gyanwali P, Haksar D, Hudson BJ, Jani MK, Jevaji PR, Jhawar S, Jindal A, John MJ, John M, John FB, John O, Jones M, Joshi RD, Kamath P, Kang G, Karki AR, Karmalkar AM, Kaur B, Koganti KC, Koshy JM, Krishnamurthy MS, Lau JS, Lewin SR, Lim LL, Marschner IC, Marsh JA, Maze MJ, McGree JM, McMahon JH, Medcalf RL, Merriman EG, Misal AP, Mora JM, Mudaliar VK, Nguyen V, O'Sullivan MV, Pant S, Pant P, Paterson DL, Price DJ, Rees MA, Robinson JO, Rogers BA, Samuel S, Sasadeusz J, Sharma D, Sharma PK, Shrestha R, Shrestha SK, Shrestha P, Shukla U, Shum O, Sommerville C, Spelman T, Sullivan RP, Thatavarthi U, Tran HA, Trask N, Whitehead CL, Mahar RK, Hammond NE, McFadyen JD, Snelling TL, Davis JS, Denholm JT, Tong SYC. Anticoagulation Strategies in Non-Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. NEJM Evid. 2023 Feb;2(2):EVIDoa2200293. doi: 10.1056/EVIDoa2200293. Epub 2022 Dec 10. PMID: 38320033.
Mohan A, Madan K, Hadda V, Mittal S, Suri T, Shekh I, Guleria R, Khader A, Chhajed P, Christopher DJ, Swarnakar R, Agarwal R, Aggarwal AN, Aggarwal S, Agrawal G, Ayub II, Bai M, Baldwa B, Chauhan A, Chawla R, Chopra M, Choudhry D, Dhar R, Dhooria S, Garg R, Goel A, Goel M, Goyal R, Gupta N, Manjunath BG, Iyer H, Jain D, Khan A, Kumar R, Koul PA, Lall A, Arunachalam M, Madan NK, Mehta R, Loganathan N, Nath A, Nangia V, Nene A, Patel D, Pattabhiraman VR, Raja A, Rajesh B, Rangarajan A, Rathi V, Sehgal IS, Shankar SH, Sindhwani G, Singh PK, Srinivasan A, Talwar D, Thangakunam B, Tiwari P, Tyagi R, Chandra VN, Sharada V, Vadala R, Venkatnarayan K. Guidelines for endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Joint Indian Chest Society (ICS)/Indian Association for Bronchology (IAB) recommendations. Lung India. 2023 Jul-Aug;40(4):368-400. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_510_22. PMID: 37417095; PMCID: PMC10401980. Link
Christopher DJ, Gupta R, Thangakunam B, Daniel J, Jindal SK, Kant S, Chhajed PN, Gupta KB, Dhooria S, Chaudhri S, Chaudhry D, Patel D, Mehta R, Chawla RK, Srinivasan A, Kumar A, Bal SK, James P, Roger JS, Nair AA, Katiyar SK, Agarwal R, Dhar R, Aggarwal AN, Samaria JK, Behera D, Madan K, Singh RB, Luhadia SK, Sarangdhar N, Souza G, Nene A, Paul A, Varghese V, Rajagopal TV, Arun M, Nair S, Roy DA, Williams BE, Christopher SA, Subodh DV, Sinha N, Isaac B, Oliver AA, Priya N, Deva J, Chandy ST, Kurien RB. Pleural effusion guidelines from ICS and NCCP Section 1: Basic principles, laboratory tests and pleural procedures. Lung India. 2024 May 1;41(3):230-248. doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_33_24. Epub 2024 Apr 30. PMID: 38704658.