Honors/Awards
1. Severity of Cognitive Impairment in SLE is related to disease activity a single centre case control study -V.N.N. Prabu, L. Rajasekhar, S. Agrawal, A. Suvarna*, G. Narsimulu – APICON 2011
2. Digital ischemia in SLE -Does It Represent A Distinct Subset? A Retrospective Case Control Study - V.N.N. Prabu, L. Rajasekhar, S. Agrawal, G. Narsimulu - Ann Rheum Dis 2010;69(Suppl3):688
3. Analysis of male lupus patients admitted in Rheumatology Department -
Prabu VNN, Shabina H, Agrawal S, Rajasekhar L, Narasimulu G – Poster Presentation – IRACON 2009 .
4. Morbidity of digital gangrene in rheumatology practice – VNN prabu,
PKS Chandrasekhara, S Agrawal, JK Kadel, L Rajasekhar, G Narsimulu.
Free paper presentation platform – IRACON 2008.
5. Venus with Mercury Saga - Prabu VNN, Monita G, Prashanth RS, Gireeshkumar KP, Unni VN, Rao G. Poster presentation - APICON 2007.
6. POTS – An Entity often Unrecognised - Prabu VNN, Dhage SS , Singh R, Geetha Francis G, Gireeshkumar KP, Gopinathan VP, Rao G. - Poster presentation - APICON 2007.
7. Indian patients with lupus nephritis respond well to the euro lupus nephritis trial protocol. IR Vara Prasad, L Rajasekhar, VNN Prabu, H Shabina, S Agrawal, S Kanchinadham, G Narsimulu. IRACON 2011
8. Etoposide in secondary macrophage activation syndrome in children .Suma Balan, VN Nagaprabhu, P Shenoy Department of Rheumatology, Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi, Kerala, India. IRACON 2011
9. Digital ischemia in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus not an uncommon occurrence : experience from an Indian cohort. Prabu VNN*, Thomas J, Rajasekhar L, Agrawal S, Narsimulu G . *Amrita Institute of medical sciences, Rheumatology, NIZAMS Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India
Other professional achievements
1) Post-Chikungunya Chronic Arthritis - G. Narsimulu, V.N.N. Prabu- Editorial review – JAPI 2011.Vol 59
2) A study of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in the context of systemic lupus erythematosus. Varaprasad IR,Agrawal S,PRABU VN, Rajasekhar L, Kanikannan MA, Narsimulu G. J Rheumatol. 2011 May 15. [Epub ahead of print]
3) Infections in rheumatology practice: an experience from NIMS, Hyderabad. Rajendra Vara Prasad Irlapati1*, Vadivelmurugan Nagasubramani Nagaprabu1,Kanchinadam Suresh, Sumeet Agrawal, Narsimulu Gumdal Indian Journal of Rheumatology 2011 March,Volume 6, Number 1; pp. 25– 30
4) Low body mass index is adversely associated with radiographic joint damage in Indian patients with early RA. Uma D Vellpula, Sumeet Agrawal,Joe Thomas, V.N.Nagaprabu, Liza Rajasekhar, Gumdal Narasimulu - J Rheumatol First Release Nov 15 2010; doi:10.3899/jrheum.100535
5) Systemic lupus erythematosus and Tuberculosis: A review of complex interaction of complicated diseases – Prabu V, Agrawal S – J Postgrad Med 2010;56:244-50
6) Supraspinatus tendon rupture in lupus: a rarity . Prabu VN, S Agrawal, JK Kishore G Narsimulu - Lupus 2009 ;18(11):1026-7
7) Musculoskeletal manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus – VNN Prabu, G.Narsimulu. – Clinical Medicine update 2009(Volume XII), 330-350.
8) Behcets disease an overview – VNN.Prabu, G.Narsimulu – API Medicine update 2009
9) Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: a very rare cause of tropical pyomyositis -Thomas J, Prabhu VN, Varaprasad IR, Agrawal S, Narasimulu G. Intl J Rheum Dis, 2010,13(1), 89–90.
10) Comment on: Prevalence, serological features, response to treatment and outcome of critical peripheral ischemia in a cohort of lupus patients – L.Rajasekhar, N.V.Jayachandran, Prabu VN, G. Narsimulu. Rheumatology 2009 48(4):451-452