Dr. Sylaja P. N.
Professor
Phone : 09446566287

Academic Qualifications

MBBS ;Trivandrum Medical College;1986

MD (Medicine);Trivandrum Medical College;1993

DM (Neurology);SCTIMST;1998

Professional Record

Additional Professor ,Dept of Neurology;SCTIMST;since July 2010

Assistant Professor of Neurology;SCTIMST;Feb 1999-June 2005

Senior consultant neurologist;Ananthapuri Hospitals ;Jan 2007-June2010

Awards

Young scientist award 2008- Physicians association of Trivandrum

Best paper award at Annual conference of Neurological Society of India in 2002

Area of Interest

Stroke and Epilepsy

Current Activities

in charge of Comprehensive stroke program

Fellowships

Fellowship of Cerebrovascular diseases ,at University of Calgary, Canada( July2005-Nov 2006)

Membership

Indian Epilepsy Association (life member)

Neurological Society of India (life member)

Indian Medical Association (life member)

Indian Epilepsy Society (life member)

Indian Academy of Neurology (life member)

World Stroke Organization

Indian Stroke Association (life member)

On-going Projects

A Phase IIb prospective, randomized, double-blind, multi-center, dose escalation placebo controlled study of NTx-265: human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and epoetin alfa (EPO) in acute ischemic stroke patients (REGENESIS) Principal investigator-Dr.P.N.Sylaja Status: Completed Sponsor: Stem cell Therapeutics Corporation,Canada.

Conducted a study on the Impact of nutrition on the outcome of stroke in collaboration with CMC Ludhiana.

Ongoing multicentric study on risk stratification in patients with TIA and minor strokes

Publications

Article

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Coutts, S B; Sylaja, P N; Choi, Y B; Al-Khathami, A; Sivakumar, C; Jeerakathil, T J; Sarma, P S; Hill, M D, The ASPIRE Approach for TIA Risk Stratification., Can J Neurol Sci, 2011, 38; 78-81, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21156434
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Shobha, N; Sylaja, P N; Kapral, M K; Fang, J; Hill, M D; Investigators of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network, Differences in stroke outcome based on sex., Neurology, 2010, 74; 767---71, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20194917
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Sridharan, Sapna E; Unnikrishnan, J P; Sukumaran, Sajith; Sylaja, P N; Nayak, S Dinesh; Sarma, P Sankara; Radhakrishnan, Kurupath, Incidence, types, risk factors, and outcome of stroke in a developing country: the Trivandrum Stroke Registry., Stroke, 2009, 40; 1212---8, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19228849
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Sylaja, P N; Hill, Michael D, Transient ischemic attacksa--definition, risk prediction and urgent management., Neurol India, 2009, 57; 252---6, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19587463
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Puetz, V; Sylaja, P N; Hill, M D; Coutts, S B; Dzialowski, I; Becker, U; Gahn, G; von Kummer, R; Demchuk, A M, CT angiography source images predict final infarct extent in patients with basilar artery occlusion., AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2009, 30; 1877---83, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19643923
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Sylaja, P N; Dzialowski, Imanuel; Puetz, Volker; Eliasziw, Michael; Hill, Michael D; Krol, Andrea; O'Reilly, Christine; Demchuk, Andrew M, Does intravenous rtPA benefit patients in the absence of CT angiographically visible intracranial occlusion?, Neurol India, 2009, 57; 739---43, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20139502
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Sylaja, P N; Setiawan, Melissa; Hill, Michael D; Demchuk, Andrew M; Wong, John, Treatment of stroke after carotid endarterectomy using intravenous abciximab., Neurol India, 2009, 57; 780---2, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20139510
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Sylaja, P N; Puetz, Volker; Dzialowski, Imanuel; Krol, Andrea; Hill, Michael D; Demchuk, Andrew M, Prognostic value of CT angiography in patients with suspected vertebrobasilar ischemia., J Neuroimaging, 2008, 18; 46---9, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18190495
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Sylaja, P N; Coutts, Shelagh B; Krol, Andrea; Hill, Michael D; Demchuk, Andrew M; VISION Study Group, When to expect negative diffusion-weighted images in stroke and transient ischemic attack., Stroke, 2008, 39; 1898---900, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18420957
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Puetz, Volker; Dzialowski, Imanuel; Hill, Michael D; Subramaniam, Suresh; Sylaja, P N; Krol, Andrea; O'Reilly, Christine; Hudon, Mark E; Hu, William Y; Coutts, Shelagh B; Barber, Philip A; Watson, Tim, Intracranial thrombus extent predicts clinical outcome, final infarct size and hemorrhagic transformation in ischemic stroke: the clot burden score., Int J Stroke, 2008, 3; 230---6, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18811738