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Low Cost Modular Actuator Fabrication with Aid of Additive Manufacturing, Utilizing Brushless D.C. Motor and Its Control Electronics for Robotics Application Open

Shashank Shekhar, Usha Tiwari, Manthan Gandhi, S. K. Tripathi · 2025

This paper presents a method of fabricating a low-cost, low-complex Brushless D.C. Motor-based modular actuator for robotics application. A modular actuator using generic hobby brushless motors is fabricated with the aid of an additive man…

Neo-Sinus Washout Time Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Hemodynamic Outcomes Open

Shivabalan Kathavarayan Ramu, Toshiaki Isogai, Saksham Beotra, Vishwum Kapadia, Nimish Thakore , et al. · 2025

Prolonged NWT is associated with higher transvalvular gradients and independently predicts HALT post-TAVR. NWT may serve as a novel marker to identify patients at risk of valve dysfunction and guide early pharmacotherapy.

Exploring chemical space for “druglike” small molecules in the age of AI Open

Aman Achuthan Kattuparambil, Dheeraj Kumar Chaurasia, Shashank Shekhar, Ashwin Srinivasan, Subrata Mondal , et al. · 2025

The announcement of 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Alphafold has reiterated the role of AI in biology and mainly in the domain of “drug discovery”. Till few years ago, structure-based drug design (SBDD) has been the preferred experimenta…

In the face of a rare foe: Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva – A case report and literature review Open

Rajiv Kumar, Shashank Shekhar, Charu Sharma, Meenakshi Rao, Suman Patra , et al. · 2025

Angiomyxoma is a rare, benign mesenchymal tumor that predominantly occurs in the pelvic and perineal regions. This case report presents a unique instance of 7 × 5 cm angiomyxoma (AM) arising in the vulvar region. The patient underwent an i…

Understanding the recurrence of amoebic liver abscess in South Bihar: a clinical case report Open

Binay Kumar Mahto, Sanjay Kumar, Sant Kumar, Rashmi Kumari, Shreya Shreya , et al. · 2025

Amoebic liver abscess is a common disease condition in some parts of India, including Bihar, due to the higher prevalence of amoebiasis and habitual consumption of toddy (tari). Recurrence of amoebic liver abscess is not uncommon; although…

Temporal Trends in Utilization of Structural Heart Interventions Among Patients With Amyloidosis Open

Shashank Shekhar, Akiva Rosenzveig, Osamah Badwan, Ankit Agrawal, Amar Krishnaswamy , et al. · 2025

HYPERURICEMIA IN DIABETIC PATIENTS : AN ADDITIONAL RISK FACTOR FOR MICROVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS – A CROSS SECTIONAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY Open

Binay Kumar Mahto, Aditya Prakash, Sanjay Kumar, Rashmi Kumari, Sujit Kumar , et al. · 2025

Early Outcomes With Cerebral Embolic Protection During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Open

Shashank Shekhar, Amar Krishnaswamy, Grant W. Reed, James Yun, Rishi Puri , et al. · 2024

Outcomes and Predictors of Stroke After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Cerebral Protection Device Era Open

Shashank Shekhar, Toshiaki Isogai, Ankit Agrawal, Roop Kaw, Gauranga Mahalwar , et al. · 2024

Background Studies have shown inconclusive results on the effectiveness of cerebral protection devices (CPDs) with transcatheter aortic valve replacement. We aimed to analyze the national statistics on stroke and other outcomes with CPD us…

Bio-Assay of Fungicides against the Neovossia indica Inciting Karnal Bunt of Wheat Open

T. S. Rathore, Shashank Shekhar, Kirti Vardhan Pandey, Sachin Sharma, Jayant Kumar , et al. · 2024

When it comes to its use in various food and feed applications, wheat is the cereal that is farmed most frequently worldwide. It is utilized for feedstock and grain production in both developed and developing nations. In 2020–21, India is …

Meta-analysis of the performances of contemporary risk models in cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis Open

T K M Wang, Ankit Agrawal, Aro Daniela Arockiam, Joseph El Dahdah, Bianca Honnekeri , et al. · 2023

Background Risk scores play important roles in the decision-making for cardiac surgery, but remain under-studied in the setting of infective endocarditis (IE) when there is often a high risk of adverse outcomes. Several IE-specific risk sc…

Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Object Detection Open

Swarali Borde, Shashank Shekhar · 2023

This research explores deep neural networks (VGG16, AlexNet,and GoogleNet) for object classification and detection in autonomousvehicles. We use public datasets like Udacity and Penn-Fudan. VGG16achieves near-perfect accuracy, AlexNet perf…

PUG: Photorealistic and Semantically Controllable Synthetic Data for Representation Learning Open

Florian Bordes, Shashank Shekhar, Mark Ibrahim, Diane Bouchacourt, P. Vincent , et al. · 2023

Synthetic image datasets offer unmatched advantages for designing and evaluating deep neural networks: they make it possible to (i) render as many data samples as needed, (ii) precisely control each scene and yield granular ground truth la…

Embolization of a Fractured Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter to Pulmonary Arteries: A Sporadic Life-Threatening Phenomenon Open

Amitabh Kumar Upadhyay, B Prakash, Shashank Shekhar, Abhishek Kumar, Aaditya Prakash · 2023

Microbes as a Promising Frontier in Drug Discovery: A Comprehensive Exploration of Nature's Microbial Marvels Open

K Rahgu, Shifali Choudhary, Triyugi Narain Kushwaha, Shashank Shekhar, Shambhavi Tiwari , et al. · 2023

Microbes have emerged as a promising frontier in drug discovery, offering a vast and diverse array of bioactive compounds with immense therapeutic potential. This comprehensive review aims to explore the untapped potential of microbes as a…

Intracardiac Thrombus in COVID-19 Inpatients: A Nationwide Study of Incidence, Predictors and Outcomes Open

Ankit Agrawal, Suryansh Bajaj, Umesh Bhagat, Sanya Chandna, Aro Daniela Arockiam , et al. · 2023

Background COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been observed to be associated with a hypercoagulable state. Intracardiac thrombosis is a serious complication but has seldom been evaluated in COVID-19 patients. We assessed the incidence…

Comparison of Outcomes Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Requiring Peripheral Vascular Intervention or Alternative Access Open

Toshiaki Isogai, Ankit Agrawal, Shashank Shekhar, Nikolaos Spilias, Rishi Puri , et al. · 2023

Background Peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) is occasionally required to facilitate delivery system insertion or to treat vascular complications during transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TF‐TAVR). However, the impact…

B-49 | Mitral Annular Calcification: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Impact on Outcomes Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open

Hassan Mehmood Lak, Ariba Moin, Marium Zafar, Fahad Hassan Shaikh, Muhammad Mussa , et al. · 2023

There is a paucity of data on the prognostic impact of mitral annular calcification (MAC) in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with conflicting results being reported by the studies that are published We per…

Pre-COVID and COVID experience of objective structured clinical examination as a learning tool for post-graduate residents in Obstetrics & Gynecology-a quality improvement study Open

Charu Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Shashank Shekhar, Abhishek Bhardwaj, Manisha Jhirwal , et al. · 2023

Objective Due to its comprehensive, reliable, and valid format, the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is the gold standard for assessing the clinical competency of medical students. In the present study, we evaluated the imp…

Understanding the Impact of Comorbidity-Interaction in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair on Outcomes Open

Ankit Agrawal, Shivabalan Kathavarayan Ramu, Shashank Shekhar, Toshiaki Isogai, Agam Bansal , et al. · 2023

BACKGROUND Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair (M-TEER) is an accepted procedure for high-risk surgical patients with degenerative and functional mitral regurgitation. Non-cardiovascular comorbidities (NCCs) are highly prevalent…

Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices: Current State of the Art Open

Ankit Agrawal, Toshiaki Isogai, Shashank Shekhar, Samir Kapadia · 2023

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become a first-line treatment for severe aortic stenosis with intermediate to high-risk population with its use increasingly expanding into younger and low-risk cohorts as well. Cerebrovasc…

Hydrogen Bonding Interaction of Acetic Acid -Pyridine Binary Mixture Using Raman and Dft Studies Open

Ranjan Kumar Azad, Chandan Bhai Patel, Shashank Shekhar, Shivam Kumar, M. M. Nayak , et al. · 2023

UNet Based Pipeline for Lung Segmentation from Chest X-Ray Images Open

Shashank Shekhar, Ritika Nandi, H.S. Kamath · 2022

Biomedical image segmentation is one of the fastest growing fields which has seen extensive automation through the use of Artificial Intelligence. This has enabled widespread adoption of accurate techniques to expedite the screening and di…

Table Detection in the Wild: A Novel Diverse Table Detection Dataset and Method Open

Mrinal Haloi, Shashank Shekhar, Nikhil Fande, Siddhant Swaroop Dash, Gayathri Sanjay · 2022

Recent deep learning approaches in table detection achieved outstanding performance and proved to be effective in identifying document layouts. Currently, available table detection benchmarks have many limitations, including the lack of sa…

Cerebral embolic protection and severity of stroke following transcatheter aortic valve replacement Open

Toshiaki Isogai, Husitha Reddy Vanguru, Amar Krishnaswamy, Ankit Agrawal, Nikolaos Spilias , et al. · 2022

Background The cerebral embolic protection (CEP) device captures embolic debris during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). However, the impact of CEP on stroke severity following TAVR remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to exam…

Utilization and outcomes of aortic valve replacements (from the United States readmissions database) Open

Shashank Shekhar, Abhishek Ajay, Toshiaki Isogai, Roop Kaw, Anas M. Saad , et al. · 2022

C-40 | Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement stratified by Severity of Mitral Annular Calcification Open

Hassan Mehmood Lak, Sanchit Chawla, Beni Verma, Taha Ahmed, Rama Dilip Gajulapalli , et al. · 2022

BackgroundThere are limited data regarding the impact of mitral annular calcification (MAC) on the outcomes of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).MethodsWe performed a retrospective analysis of patients who u…

Postdischarge-to-30-Day Mortality Among Patients Receiving MitraClip: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open

Beni Verma, Shashank Shekhar, Toshiaki Isogai, Raghuram Chava, Pejman Raeisi-Giglou , et al. · 2022

Conduction Disturbance, Pacemaker Rates, and Hospital Length of Stay Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation with the Sapien 3 Valve Open

Toshiaki Isogai, Shashank Shekhar, Anas M. Saad, Omar Abdelfattah, Khaldoun G. Tarakji , et al. · 2022

Early TPM removal and discharge after TAVI appear safe and feasible in the majority of cases. These data may provide a framework for an early, streamlined hospital discharge plan for TAVI recipients, optimizing both cost savings and patien…

Risk Stratification and Management of Advanced Conduction Disturbances Following TAVI in Patients With Pre-Existing RBBB Open

Toshiaki Isogai, Iryna Dykun, Ankit Agrawal, Shashank Shekhar, Anas M. Saad , et al. · 2022

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