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CHENNAI: An endocrinologist who had prescribed medicines to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa in 2015 appeared before the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission on Thursday. The commission is probing the circumstances surrounding the hospitalisation and eventual death of Jayalalithaa in December 2016.Dr Sivagnana Sundaram, sources said, had a short deposition before the judge. He had not met Jayalalithaa during her hospitalisation.On Wednesday, Dr U Meenakshisundaram, a neurologist with Apollo Hospitals , appeared before the commission.The commission wanted to know the protocol for the diagnosis of brain death from Dr Sundaram, sources said. He was posed questions pertaining to the same subject. Doctors have testified stating that the process, which was part of setting up the ECMO, is like a synchronised dance and no blood supply would have been stopped to the brain.The doctor told the commission that two neurological examinations are conducted in intervals of six hours each which would determine brain death..