Dr Vykunta Raju
Dr Vykunta Raju is one of India’s paediatric neurologists who has worked extensively in the field of developmental neurology and developmental disorders in children
Life and career
Born in a traditional family near Kolar, Karnataka in 1975. He completed his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College, Karnataka in 1999 and went on to complete his DM (Doctorate of Medicine) in Paediatric Neurology in 2010 from the AIIMS,All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He has practiced as a paediatric neurologist in various organizations such as BGS Global Hospital and Center for Child Development and Disabilities and during his early career and went on to do extensive research and document studies on critically ill paediatric conditions. He is currently an Assistant professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health . He is also a member of various pediatric organizations such as Indian Academy of Pediatrics and Association of Child Neurology.
Contributions
Dr Raju has done extensive work in the field of paediatrics for critical conditions such as Myoclonic Seizure and Megaloblastic anemia He is also the editorial board member of Pediatrics and Therapeutics:Current Research
Recent Papers Published
- Vanishing White Matter Disease Associated With Ptosis and Myoclonic Seizures
- Acute onset flaccid quadriparesis in pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Vincristine induced or Guillain-Barré syndrome?
- Management of Raised Intracranial Pressure
- Renal agenesis and external iliac artery stenosis in an infant with moyamoya disease
- Thiamine Responsive Megaloblastic Anemia (TRMA) case series
- Efficacy of 4:1 (Classic) versus 2.5:1 Ketogenic Ratio Diets in Refractory Epilepsy in Young Children: A Randomized Open Labeled Study
Recent Projects Undertaken
- Randomized control study of efficacy and reactogenecity of combination versus separate vaccination for DPT and Hepatitis B (Berna - Switzerland)
- Comparative study of efficacy and reactogenecity of DPT versus DPT supplied by national immunization programme