Departments

St John's Medical College Hospital

Dr. Vineeta Shobha
Designation :Professor and Head
Department :Immunology


MD, DM (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology)
Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology,
St John’s Medical College Hospital,
Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

1. "Identification and Stratification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients into Two Transcriptionally Distinct Clusters Based on IFN-I Signature"; Manuscript-2020

2. "Non-digital skin ulcers in systemic sclerosis- a neglected entity" has been successfully submitted online and is presently being given full consideration for publication in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases; Manuscript-2020

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3. Clinical phenotype and long term outcomes in Immune-mediated Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis - A single centre experience; Manuscript-2020

4. Auto-immune rheumatic diseases and risk of COVID-19: Initial results from the Karnataka Rheumatology Association COVID Cohort study (KRACC); Manuscript-2020

5. SujataGanguly, SanjuktaMajumder, Sandeep Kumar,Ranjan Gupta, VineetaShobha,et al Urinary C3d is elevated in patients withactive Lupus nephritis and a fall in its levelafter 3 months predicts response at6 months on follow up; Journals.sagepub 2020; https://doi.org/10.1177/0961203320950019

6. Chopra A, Shobha V, Chandrashekara S, et al. Tofacitinib in the treatment of Indian patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A post hoc analysis of efficacy and safety in Phase 3 and long-term extension studies over 7 years. Int J Rheum Dis. 2020;23(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13853

7. RamyaJanardana , VikramHaridas , Vishnu Priya , VasudhaBhat , Yogesh Singh , Vijay K Rao , Ramesh Jois, ChandrashekaraSrikantiah , Benzeeta Pinto and Vineeta Shobha. Maternal and fetal outcomes of lupus pregnancies: A collective effort by Karnataka Rheumatologists. Lupus journals.sagepub.com, 2020; 0(0)1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961203320944503 .

8. Desai A, Chandy S, Pakalomattom S, Shobha V. Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A descriptive cross sectional study. Indian J Rheumatol. 2020;15(2). https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_165_19

9. Shobha V, Desai AM, Matthew T. Etanerceptbiosimilar associated with Guillain-Barrésyndrome: insights from a case. Reumatismo. 2019;71(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2019.1115

10. Joseph Sushil Rao, Vineeta Shobha, Tinku Thomas, UshaKini Determination of cut off dilution titres for Antinuclear Antibodies by Indirect Immunofluorescence for a diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Year : 2019 | Volume : 14 | Issue : 3 | Page : 211-217

11. Shobha V, Desai AM. Poncet’s disease diagnostic criteria decodes conundrum: Poncet’s vs pseudo poncet’s. Reumatismo. 2019;71(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2019.1114

12. Shobha V. Pulmonary sarcoidosis-Predictors of relapse: Are we there yet? Indian J Rheumatol. 2019; 14(4). https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_168_19

13. van der Heijde D, Strand V, Tanaka Y, et al. Tofacitinib in Combination With Methotrexate in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinical Efficacy, Radiographic, and Safety Outcomes From a Twenty-Four–Month, Phase III Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019;71(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/art.40803

14. Bharthi P, Shobha V, Subramanya A, Patterns of drug use and factors affecting adherence to medication in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A prospective, observational, hospital- based study. IJRCI. 2019;7(1):OA1 Accepted: 28 October 2019, Published: 12 November 2019 © IJRCI

15. Vineeta Shobha, Sandra Sanil, RashmiRoongta, Eltrombopag Efficacy and Safety in Steroid Refractory Lupus-Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia. JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology: June 3, 2019 - Issue - phttps://doi.org/10.1097/RHU.0000000000001083

16. Shobha V, Chandrashekara S, Rao V, et al. Biologics and risk of tuberculosis in autoimmune rheumatic diseases: A real-world clinical experience from India. Int J Rheum Dis. 2019;22(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13376

17. Chandrashekara S, Shobha V, Rao V, et al. Incidence of infection other than tuberculosis in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases treated with bDMARDs: a real-time clinical experience from India. Rheumatol Int. 2019;39(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-019-04245-4

18. Chandrashekara S, Shobha V, Dharmanand BG, et al. Influence of disease duration and socioeconomic factors on the prevalence of infection and hospitalization in rheumatoid arthritis: KRAC study. Int J Rheum Dis. 2019;22(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13562

19. Shobha V, Rao V, Desai A, et al. Prescribing patterns and safety of biologics in immune-mediated rheumatic diseases: Karnataka biologics cohort study group experience. Indian J Rheumatol. 2019;14(1). https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_79_18

20. Gupta L, Appani SK, Janardana R, Vineeta Shobha et al. Meeting report: MyoIN-Pan-India collaborative network for myositis research. Indian J Rheumatol. 2019;14(2). https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_40_19

21. Pinto B, Janardana R, Nadig R, Vineeta Shobha et al. Comparison of the 2017 EULAR/ACR criteria with Bohan and Peter criteria for the classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. ClinRheumatol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04512-6

22. Joseph Sushil Rao, Vineeta Shobha, Tinku Thomas, Usha Kini. Standardizing initial dilution titers of antinuclear antibodies for the screening of systemic lupus erythmatosus. Indian J Rheumatol. 2019;14(3). https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_172_18

23. Shobha V, Fathima S, Prakash R. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: clinical course and outcome of 60 patients from a single center in South India. ClinExp Med. 2018;18(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10238-018-0492-7

24. Agarwal V, Agrawal V, Aggarwal A, et al. Arthritis in sarcoidosis: A multicentric study from India. Int J Rheum Dis. 2018;21(9). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13349

25. Chandrashekara S, Shobha V, Dharmanand BG, et al. Factors influencing remission in rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from Karnataka rheumatoid arthritis comorbidity (KRAC) study. Int J Rheum Dis. 2018;21(11). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.12908

26. Anoop J, Geetha F, Jyothi I, Rekha P, Shobha V. Unravelling thyroid dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis: History matters. Int J Rheum Dis. 2018;21(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13040

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