Dr. Prashant Bafna
Consultant
12 Years of ExperienceRheumatologist
MBBS, MD, DM
Reg. No.:94605, Karnataka Medical Council
Manipal Hospitals, Jayanagar, Bangalore
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
Consultation Fee ₹ 900
About Dr. Prashant Bafna
- Dr. Prashant Bafna is a well-esteemed rheumatologist with 12 years of expertise.
- His expertise lies in arthritis and related diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout, osteoarthritis, and spondyloarthritis.
- He also has expertise in treating systemic connective tissue diseases, including
- SLE
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Scleroderma
- Myositis
- He treats a wide range of rheumatology conditions, such as myofibrillar myopathies, polyarteritis nodosa, multiminicore disease, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, and systemic lupus erythematosus.
- He graduated in 2012 with an MBBS from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and in 2016 with an MD in General Medicine from JIPMER, Pondicherry. He went on to earn a DM in Rheumatology from King George's Medical College at Lucknow University in 2020.
- He has made significant contributions to rheumatology through his research, authoring and co-authoring 12 publications in esteemed journals like Clinical Rheumatology and the Indian Journal of Rheumatology.
- He is a notable member of the Karnataka Medical Council.
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Education
- MBBS, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 2012
- MD in General Medicine, JIPMER, Pondicherry, 2016
- DM in Rheumatology, King Georges Medical College, Lucknow University, 2020
Past Experience
- Rheumatology Consultant, Sparsh Hospital, Bengaluru
Awards
- Best Oral Presentation (2nd), INDO-UK Rheumatology Summit, March 2019, Gurgaon
- Best Poster Presentation, MyoIN Summit, SGPGI, Lucknow.
- Dr. Siddharth Das Gold Medal (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology), KGMU
Associations/Membership
- Karnataka Medical Council
Paper Published
He has authored and co-authored 12 research publications.
- Bafna, P., Sahoo, R. R., Manoj, M., & Wakhlu, A. (2020). Ganglionitis and myelitis: myriad neurological manifestations of Hansen’s disease. BMJ Case Reports, 13(8), e236813. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-236813
- Bafna, P., Deepanjali, S., Mandal, J., Balamurugan, N., Swaminathan, R. P., & Kadhiravan, T. (2020). Reevaluating the true diagnostic accuracy of dipstick tests to diagnose urinary tract infection using Bayesian latent class analysis. PloS One, 15(12), e0244870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244870
- Bafna, P., Sahoo, R. R., Hazarika, K., Malhotra, K. P., & Wakhlu, A. (2020). Clinical Image: Multiple pathological fractures in a middle?aged woman: A rheumatologist’s challenge. ACR Open Rheumatology, 2(11), 681–682. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr2.11193
- Manoj, M., Sahoo, R. R., Hazarika, K., Bafna, P., & Wakhlu, A. (2019). Drug-induced myopathy. Indian Journal of Rheumatology/Indian Journal of Rheumatology, 14(5), 27. https://doi.org/10.4103/0973-3698.272157
Field of Expertise
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Pemphigus
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Raynaud's Syndrome
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