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Managing Diabetes Challinges in a in the new Millennium; Developig Counter

Weerarathna, T.P. (Galle Medical Journal, 2000-09)
Prediction of Total and Visceral fat Contents Using Anthropometric Measures of Adiposity in Women

Weerarathna, T.P.; Lekamwasam, S.; Rodrigo, M. (Ceylon Medical Journal, 2008-12)

Background Although techniques such as dual energy xray absorptiometry (DXA) and quantitative CT are available to estimate global and regional adiposity, anthropometric measurements are often used to detect adiposity in ...
Association Between Bone Mineral Density, Lean mass, and Fat mass among Healthy Middle-aged Premenopausal Women: a Cross-sectional study in Southern Sri Lanka

Lekamwasam, S.; Weerarathna, T.P.; Rodrigo, M.; Arachchi, W.K.; Munidasa, D. (Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 2008-12-12)

Associations between lean mass, fat mass, and bone mass have been reported earlier; however, most of those studies have been done in Caucasian populations, and data from Asian countries, especially those in South Asia, are ...
Osteoporosis and Cardiovascular Risk Among Premenopausal Women in Sri Lanka

Lekamwasam, S.; Weerarathna, T.P.; Rodrigo, M.; Arachchi, W.K.; Munidasa, D. (Elsevier, 2009)

We examined the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and cardiovascular risk in a group of premen- opausal women selected from the Southern province of Sri Lanka. One hundred six previously healthy premeno- pausal ...
Metabolic and endocrine manifestations of neoplastic disease

Weerarathna, T.P. (Ceylon Medical Journal, 2009-01-26)

Neoplastic diseases, both benign and malignant, can present as a variety of metabolic and endocrine manifestations. They range from a single biochemical abnormality to a full-blown endocrine syndrome and often precede ...
Value of CT scanning in the diagnosis and management of patients admitted with stroke to a tertiary care center in Sri Lanka

Pratheepan, G.J.; De Silva, D.B.Y.N.; Weerarathna, T.P. (Galle Medical Journal, 2009-07-29)

Introduction: Stroke is a clinical diagnosis for which CT is the mainstay of investigation. The diagnostic comparisons between the clinical and the CT diagnosis of stroke and the impact of the latter on management are ...
A Case of Cerebral Malaria: are we Alert to Detect?

Pratheepan, G.J.; Bodinayake, C.K. (Galle Medical Association, 2009-07-29)

Malaria is an important treatable cause of fever. Cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum causes multisystem involvement leading to death. Though malaria was a common illness in Sri Lanka years back, the ...
Value of assessing post prandial blood glucose as a surrogate for fasting blood glucose in an outpatient medical clinic: a descriptive study

Weerarathna, T.P.; Dissanayake, A.S. (Galle Medical Journal, 2009-09-28)

Objectives: To assess the value of estimation of postprandial blood sugar (PPBS) as a surrogate for fasting blood glucose (FBS) and to estimate the prevalence and profile of patients with diabetes with normal fasting blood ...
Comparison of McAuley/fasting Insulin Indices with ATP III Clinical Criteria for the Diagnosis of Insulin Resistance in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Hettihewa, L.M.; Weerarathna, T.P. (Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, 2011-07)

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of insulin resistant syndrome (IRS) among newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes and to test their validity against two indices of insulin resistance (IR). Materials and ...
Leptospirosis as Frequent Cause of Acute Febrile Illness in Southern Sri Lanka

Reller, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Flom, Judith E.; Dumler, J. Stephen; Woods, Christopher W. (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2011-09-09)

To determine the proportion of fevers caused by leptospirosis, we obtained serum specimens and epidemiologic and clinical data from patients in Galle, Sri Lanka, March-October 2007. Immunoglobulin M ELISA was performed on ...
Unsuspected Dengue and Acute Febrile Illness in Rural and Semi-Urban Southern Sri Lanka

Reller, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Broadwater, Anne; Ostbye, T.; De Silva, A.; Woods, Christopher W. (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2012-02-02)

Dengue virus (DENV), a globally emerging cause of undifferentiated fever, has been documented in the heavily urbanized western coast of Sri Lanka since the 1960s. New areas of Sri Lanka are now being affected, and ...
Unsuspected Rickettsioses among Patients with Acute Febrile Illness, Sri Lanka, 2007

Relle, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Flom, Judith E.; Ostbye, T.; Woods, Christopher W.; Dumler, J. Stephen (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2012-05-05)

We studied rickettsioses in southern Sri Lanka. Of 883 febrile patients with paired serum samples, 156 (17.7%) had acute rickettsioses; rickettsioses were unsuspected at presentation. Additionally, 342 (38.7%) had exposure ...
Hypokalaemia-induced Rhabdomyolysis as the Presenting Feature of Primary Hyperaldosteronism

Karunaratna, W.G.S.G.; Dilhani, P.D.W.; Edirisinghe, L.U.; Sumanatilleke, M.; Weerarathna, T.P.; Bodinayake, C.K. (2013-11-01)
Primary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

Gayani, G.G.A.; Karunaratna, W.G.S.G.; Dilhani, P.D.W.; Muhunthan, S.; Herath, H.M.M.; Weerarathna, T.P. (Galle Medical Journal, 2013-11-01)
Chikungunya as a Cause of Acute Febrile Illness in Southern Sri Lanka

Reller, Megan E.; Akoroda, Ufuoma; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Strouse, John J.; Chua, Robert; Yan'an Hou; Chow, Angelia; Sessions, October M.; Ostbye, T.; Gubler, Duane J.; Woods, Christopher W.; Bodinayake, C.K. (Public Library of Science (PLOS) , 2013-12-02)

Background: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated ...
A Possible Association of Hypokalaemic Periodic Paralysis, Autoimmune Thyroiditis and Neuromyotonia

Arambewela, M.H.; Sumanathilaka, M.R.; Pathirana, K.D.; Bodinayake, C.K. (The Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2013-12-28)

Acute hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HPP), a clinical syndrome characterised by acute systemic weakness and low serum potassium (K+), is a rare but treatable cause of acute limb weakness. Hypokalemia can be caused by K+ ...
Individualizing Treatment of type 2 Diabetes

Weerarathna, T.P. (Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2014-08-05)

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a heterogeneous disorder. It affects the young, middle aged and elderly. Some patients with T2DM are obese and some are lean. A category of individuals in these groups posses a cluster of ...
McArdle Syndrome with Recurrent Rhabdomyolysis in a Middle Aged Man

Ediriweera, H.M.A.; Gayani, G.G.A.; Dilhani, P.D.W.; Pathirana, K.D.; Weerarathna, T.P. (Ceylon Medical Journal, 2014-09-29)
Pulmonary Alveolar Mcrolithiasis Complicated by Corpulmonale

Gayani, G.G.A.; Muhunthan, S.; Perera, A.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Mohideen, M.R. (Ceylon College of Physician, 2014-11-27)

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare,chronic lung disease with bilateral intra-alveolar calcium and phosphate deposition throughout the lung parenchyma. This is a case history of a 40- year-old female with a family ...
Different Presentations of CADASIL; importance of a Detailed History

Gayani, G.G.A.; Pathirana, K.D.; Weerarathna, T.P.; Mohideen, M.R. (Galle Medical Journal, 2015-01-11)

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