Journal of Infectious Diseases & Immune Therapies

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Georgi Abraham Author

Subjects of specialization
Nephrology

Affiliation
Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India

Biography

Dr Georgi Abraham is an Associate professor in the Department of Nephrology, University of Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission,  located in  Chennai, India. Currently , Dr Georgi Abraham is the author/editors/reviewer in several international journals. He published 10 articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.


Publications

Case Report Open Access

Long Term Renal Allograft Survival with Active Hepatitis B Infection in a Sibling-To-Sibling Transplant Recipient: a Case Report

Author(s):

Deepu Sabu George, Georgi Abraham, Kuyilan Karai Subramanian, Milly Mathew and Madhusudan Vijayan

Here we report on a 69-year old man with a well-functioning kidney transplant 25 years post-transplant, with active hepatitis B viral replication. The recipient was not inducted and received oral prednisolone, azathioprine and cyclosporine as maintenance therapy. He was detected to be hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive on routine screening in the early period following transplantation and his donor younger brother was also detected to be HbsAg positive. Recipient could not afford anti-viral drugs initially. Hepatitis B viral load was detected to be 2.2 × 1010 viral copies/ml 21 years after transplantation with good allograft function. He took lamivudine 100 mg once a day for the next 6 months, and then discontinued and was followed up with ye... view moreĀ»

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