Epilepsy in adults and children, Stroke, headache, vertigo, muscle and nerve diseases, movement disorders, parkinson's disease, dystonia, tremor, brain and spine infections, demyelination, multiple sclerosis, GBS, neck pain, back pain, pediatric neurology, sleep disorders, dementia, memory complaints, autism, ADHD
Past Experience :
4 years at SCTIMST, Trivandrum
3 years at Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam
Awards & Achievements:
Poster presentation (3rd prize) - A 20-year-old male with fever and cardiac tamponade - Adult-Onset Still’s Disease, in SZIRACON, 2016, Calicut.
Stopping the effective non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics at day 7 vs continuing until day 14 in adults with acute pyelonephritis requiring hospitalization: A randomized non-inferiority trial. This work was presented at the 2nd American College of Physicians - India Chapter Congress held at New Delhi, India on August 12–13, 2017.
Award paper presentation - Accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical amnesia in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy - a cohort study, in ECON, 2020, Ahmedabad.
Platform presentation - Perioral myoclonia with absences: An overlooked and misdiagnosed generalised seizure type, in ECON, 2020, Ahmedabad.
Poster presentation – Long-term memory dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy: An observational case control study, 13th Asian and Oceanic Epilepsy Congress, 2021, Japan (Virtual).
e-Poster presentation (2nd prize)– Surgical outcomes of hypermotor seizures originating from temporal lobe: a retrospective observational study. KAN Monsoon Summit, 2021.
Poster presentation – Long-term memory dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy: An observational case control study, 34th International Epilepsy Congress, 2021, Paris (Virtual).
Video poster presentation – Rock n’ Roll by a Ballroom Dancer – Hypermotor TLE: Periyar Neurocon, 2021, Kairaly Neurosciences Society mid-term meeting, Kochi.
Publications:
Rudrabhatla PK, Deepanjali S, Mandal J, Swaminathan RP, Kadhiravan T (2018) Stopping the effective non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics at day 7 vs continuing until day 14 in adults with acute pyelonephritis requiring hospitalization: A randomized non-inferiority trial. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0197302.
Rudrabhatla PK, Sabarish S, Ramachandran H, Nair SS. Teaching Neuro Images: A rare adult-onset genetic leukoencephalopathy. Neurology. 2020 Nov 18:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011233.
Sekar S, Rudrabhatla PK, Selvadasan V, Thomas B, Kesavadas C. Teaching Neuroimages: Ohtahara Syndrome Due to Unilateral Perisylvian polymicrogyria. Neurology. 2021 Jan 5:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011497.
Rudrabhatla PK, Sunesh ER, Radhakrishnan A, Menon RN. Unmasking the entity of 'drug-resistant' perioral myoclonia with absences: the twitches, darts and domes! Epileptic Disord. 2021 Apr 12.
Rudrabhatla PK, Nair SS, George J, Sekar S, Ponnambath DK. Isolated Myelitis and Intramedullary Spinal Cord Abscess in Melioidosis—A Case Report. The Neurohospitalist. June 2021.
Boddu VK, Rebello A, Chandrasekharan SV, Rudrabhatla PK, Chandran A, Ravi S, et al. How does ‘‘locus of control” affect persons with epilepsy? 2021;6.
Rudrabhatla PK, Sabarish S, Nair SS, George T, Divakar G, Sylaja PN. Superficial Siderosis Due to Spinal Myxopapillary Ependymoma Mimicking Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2022;25(1):156-157.
Rudrabhatla PK, Reghukumar A, Thomas SV. Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients: predisposing factors, prevention and management. Acta Neurol Belg. 2022;122(2):273-280.
Rudrabhatla PK, Balasubramanian AP, Sundaram S, Nair SS. Dramatic response to plasma exchange in lupus myelitis-a case report and review of literature. Neuroimmunology Reports. 2022;2:100060.
Fazal A, Jose M, Rudrabhatla PK, Chandrasekharan SV, Sundaram S, Radhakrishnan A, et al. Visual-sensitive epilepsy in GLUT-1 deficiency syndrome: Expanding the phenotype. Epileptic Disord. 2023; 00: 1– 4.
Rebello A, Chandrasekharan SV, Rudrabhatla PK, Vincent SJ, Menon RN, Radhakrishnan A. Satisfaction among persons with epilepsy towards physical consultation versus online video consultation for follow-up. Epilepsy Behav. 2023;140:10908.
Rudrabhatla PK, Mehnaz F, Metta S. Atypical Rasmussen's encephalitis presenting
as focal status epilepticus and periodic generalised myoclonus. Acta Neurol Belg. 2023;10.1007/s13760-023-02267-1.
Jose M, Fasaludeen A, Pavuluri H, Rudrabhatla PK et al. Metabolic causes of pediatric developmental & epileptic encephalopathies (DEE)- genetic variant analysis in a south Indian cohort. Seizure.
Rudrabhatla PK, Divya KP, Fasaludeen A, et al. Generalized Stiffness in Hereditary Hyperekplexia Responsive to Trihexyphenidyl: A Novel Finding. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2024;63(7):885-888.
Jose M, Fasaludeen A, Pavuluri H, Rudrabhatla PK et al. Challenges in genetic testing for metabolic causes of developmental epileptic encephalopathy- relevance of genotype-phenotype correlations. Seizure. 2024;117:307-308. doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2024.02.012.
