Dr. Saurabh Gaba

Work experience

Consultant (2018) – Eden Critical Care Hospital, Chandigarh
Senior Resident (2018 – 2021) – Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh
Associate Consultant (2021 – 2022) – Paras Hospital, Panchkula

Education and Training

MBBS (2009 – 2015) – Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Chandigarh
MD (2015 – 2018) – GMCH
MRCP-UK ( 2021)
EULAR course and exam on connective tissue diseases (2019 – 2020)
BMJ acute coronary syndrome course (2020)

Memberships

Indian Medical Association
Membership of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom

Research/Publications

1. Acute kidney injury and hyperkalemia with precarious electrocardiographic changes caused by concurrent use of telmisartan and diclofenac.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

2. Acute presentation of atherosclerotic total distal abdominal aorta occlusion.
Annal of Clinical and Experimental Research

3. Advances in the treatment of Polycythemia Vera: Trends in disease management.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

4. Atypical mucormycosis masquerading as non-resolving cavitatory pneumonia: A frequently misdiagnosed entity.
Tropical Doctor

5. Bilateral complete oculomotor palsy in tubercular meningitis.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

6. COVID-19 presenting as complete heart block: A case report.
Journal of Acute Disease

7. Clinical outcome and predictors of severity in scrub typhus patients at a tertiary hospital in Chandigarh.
Journal of Vector-Borne Diseases

8. Concurrent gingival hyperplasia, hirsutism, and megaloblastic anemia due to phenytoin use.
Apollo Medicine

9. Constrictive pericarditis as an initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

10. Endometriosis at cesarean scar presenting as an acute abdomen.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

11. Etiology and fetomaternal outcomes of thrombocytopenia during pregnancy.
Perinatology

12. From psychiatry to neurology and endocrinology: A case of hypoparathyroidism.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

13. Fulminant paraquat poisoning leading to spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a rare but catastrophic complication.
APIK Journal of Internal Medicine

14. Haemorrhagic encephalitis in the garb of scrub typhus.
BMJ Case Reports

15. Helminthic infection in the background of active pulmonary tuberculosis: An underreported co-Infection.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

16. Hepatic and renal profile of scrub typhus patients at a tertiary care center in India.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

17. Hirayama disease: Re-appraisal of a benign and non-progressive anterior horn cell disease.
APIK Journal of Internal Medicine

18. Insights into the emerging role of myocarditis in Dengue Fever.
Current Tropical Medicine Reports

19. Intrahepatic pseudocyst following acute pancreatitis.
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth

20. Isolated splenic tuberculosis: A diagnostic conundrum.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

21. Livedo reticularis in Graves’ disease: Just a coincidence?
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth

22. Marchiafava-Bignami disease: A case report.
Journal of Acute Disease

23. Neurologic and psychiatric syndromes associated with pregnancy: A review.
Perinatology

24. Novel infectious causes of acute pancreatitis: A comprehensive review.
Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine

25. Omental infarction imitating acute appendicitis.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

26. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in scrub typhus fever.
BMJ Case Reports

27. Pseudohyperphosphatemia: A prelude to multiple myeloma.
Journal of Medical College Chandigarh

28. Pulmonary thromboembolism: A rare vascular complication of amebic liver abscess.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

29. Purpura fulminans in granulomatosis with polyangitis.
Journal of Medical College Chandigarh

30. Rasmussen’s encephalitis: A case report.
Journal of Medical College Chandigarh

31. Revisiting a case of parathyroid adenoma with a bilateral staghorn calculus.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

32. Scrub typhus leading to acute liver failure in a pregnant patient.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

33. Scrub typhus: An update.
Current Tropical Medicine Reports

34. Scrub typhus manifesting as electrocardiographic disturbance: A case report and review of the literature.
Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine

35. Sea blue histiocytosis concordant with immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

36. Splenic Infarction in Plasmodium vivax malaria.
Journal of Medical College Chandigarh

37. Study of liver dysfunction in hyperemesis gravidarum.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

38. Suppurative thyroiditis.
Clinical Case Reports

39. Transient bradyarrhythmia: A sole presentation of amiodarone-induced hypothyroidism.
Amrita Journal of Medicine

40. Tubercular retropharyngeal abscess with Pott’s disease in an elderly male patient.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

41. Tuberculosis presents as hepatic and splenic microabscesses.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

42. Type 2 autoimmune polyglandular syndrome presenting with hyperpigmentation and amenorrhea.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science

Languages Spoken

English, Hindi, Punjabi

Areas of Interests

• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Dyslipidemia
• Thyroid disease
• Coronary Artery disease
• Dyselectrolytemia
• Hepatic diseases
• Renal diseases
• Vitamin D deficiency
• Metabolic diseases
• Gastro-Intestinal diseases