Choithram Hospital

About Me:

Biography

Dr Sumit has received extensive training in Pediatric Gastroenterology from India’s top Medical Institute (Sanjay Gandhi PGI, Lucknow). He has specialized in care of various liver, gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary diseases in children like neonatal cholestasis, recurrent and chronic hepatitis, portal hypertension, ascites, gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic diarrhea, celiac disease, cow’s milk protein allergy, inflammatory bowel disease, acute and chronic pancreatitis. Dr. Sumit has a vast experience of performing more than a thousand of various gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures including diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI endoscopy, variceal band ligation, glue injection, colonoscopy, polypectomy, foreign body removal, stricture dilatation etc. He has special interest in pediatric constipation and Celiac disease and metabolic liver diseases. He has also been performing various skilled Gastrointestinal laboratory procedures like esophageal manometry, 24h pH study and anorectal manometry on a regular basis. He has published several research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals and has many awards to his credit.
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Speciality

- Pediatric Gastroenterology.
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Experience (In years)

11 years
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Fields of Expertise

- Neonatal and Pediatric endoscopic procedures:
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: Variceal band ligation, endoscopic sclerotherapy and glue injection in varices, foreign body like coin, battery, screw, Pins etc. removal;
- Diagnostic Colonoscopy in children with colitis, blood in stool inflammatory bowel disease, eosinophilic colitis etc;
- Endoscopic polypectomy in children with colonic polyps;
- Endoscopic dilatation of oesophageal stricture due to corrosive ingestion or post TEF repair, pyloric stricture;
- Capsule endoscopy;
- Gastrointestinal laboratory procedure
- Anorectal manometry in children with chronic constipation;
- Esophageal manometry in children with dysphagia, Achalasia cardia c. 24-h pH metry in children with gastroesophageal reflux disease;
- Biofeedback sessions;
- Colonic marker study in children with chronic constipation f. Breath hydrogen test;
- Special interests:
- Celiac disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chronic liver disease, metabolic liver diseases.
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Fellow Membership

- Life Member of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP): L/2019/K-2907; - Life Member of Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHAN), India. Membership number: 2014LM10037.
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Past Positions

- Research Faculty at Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow from Nov 2017 to Oct 2019.
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Publications


- Original Articles:

- Singh SK, Poddar U, Mishra R, Srivastava A, Yachha SK. Ascitic Fluid Infection in Children with Liver Disease: Time to Change Empirical Antibiotic policy: Hepatol Int. doi.org/10.1007/s12072-019-09968-x. E-pub ahead of print. (Impact factor: 5.490);
- Singh SK, Sen sarma M, Yadav R, Kumar S, Prasad R, Yachha SK, Srivastava A, Poddar U. Prognostic scoring systems and outcome of endovascular radiological intervention of chronic Budd-Chiari Syndrome in children. Liver Int. 2018;38:1308-1315 (Impact factor: 5.542);
- Singh SK, Srivastava A, Rai P, Yachha SK, Poddar U. Yield of endoscopic ultrasound in children and adolescent with acute recurrent pancreatitis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2018; 66:461-65 (Impact factor: 3.015);
- Singh SK, Srivastava A, Kumari N, Poddar U, Yachha SK, Pandey CM. Differentiation Between Crohn Disease and Intestinal Tuberculosis in Children. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2018; 66:e6-e11 (Impact factor: 3.015);
- Singh SK, Borkar B, Srivastava A, Mathias A, Yachha SK, Poddar U. Need for recognizing atypical manifestations of childhood sporadic acute viral hepatitis warranting differences in management. Eur J Pediatr 2018;178:61-67 (Impact factor: 2.24);
- Poddar U, Singh S, Pawaria A, Srivastava A and Surender K Yachha. Aetiological spectrum, clinical differentiation and efficacy of polyethylene glycol over lactulose in children with constipation:Experience of 316 cases. J. Paediatr. Child Health 2018 (doi:10.1111/jpc.14099) (Impact factor: 1.688);
- Singh SK, Kumar R, Koonwar S. Epidemiology and outcome of pediatric in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Northern India. Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care 2013;2:55–61;
- Singh SK, Sen sarma M, Yachha SK, Srivastava A, Poddar U. Late-onset Hepatic Failure in Children: Risk Factors that determine the outcome. Dig Dis 2020. DOI (Impact factor: 2.908);
- Ajay Kumar Jain, Sumit K Singh, Suchita Jain, Praveen Agrawal. Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Pancreatic Pseudocyst Drainage in Children: A Case Series. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2022 Jul-Aug;27(4):478-480;
- Surender Kumar Yachha, Mridul Chandra Das, Praveen Kumar, Lokesh Sharma, Sumit Kumar Singh et al. Development of integrated neonatal cholestasis card for early recognition and referral of neonatal cholestasis. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2020 Dec;39(6):584-590;
- Ajay K Jain, Arun Singh, Amit Joshi, Rushi Pipawat, Sumit K Singh et al. Abdominal pain caused by lead toxicity due to over the counter herbal medicines: A case series. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2022 Apr;41(2):198-202;
- Jayendra Seetharaman, Anshu Srivastava, Rajanikant R Yadav, Sumit K Singh et al. Visceral fat indices: Do they help differentiate Crohn's disease and Intestinal tuberculosis in children? J Crohns Colitis. 2023 Jun 30: jjad109.

- Review article:

- Sumit Kumar Singh, Moinak Sen Sarma. Hereditary fructose intolerance: A comprehensive review. World J Clin Pediatr. 2022 Jul 9;11(4):321-329;
- Sumit K Singh, Anshu Srivastava. Transition of Care in Celiac Disease. Indian J Pediatr. 2023 Nov;90(11):1142-1148;
- Singh SK and Yachha SK. A review of constipation in children. Indian Journal of Practical Pediatrics 2018;20:6-10;
- Book Chapters: 4
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Awards and Recognitions

- 2nd prize in an oral presentation at 4th National conference of Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHANCON 2017) at Guwahati, India;
- 3rd prize in oral paper presentation at 3rd National conference of Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHANCON 2016) at Kolkata, India;
- 3rd prize in an abstract presentation at 14th Scientific meeting of Commonwealth Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN 2015) at New Delhi, India.
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Appointment Days and Timings

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY (11:30 AM – 2:30 PM)

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