13 articles in this issue
Shankar Laudari, Sachin Dhungel, Laxman Dubey, Rajesh Panjiyar, Madhu Gupta, Gagnapatnam Subramanyam, Pawina Subedi, Bindesh Ghimire
Background & Objectives: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an emerging cardiac problem in the young population in Asia and Nepalese population is not an exception to this. Early ACS in young age imparts huge familial and social economic burden. Early ident... see more
Ashish Shrestha, Sushmita Shrestha, Vinay Marla, Navin Agrawal
Background & Objectives: The current study was conducted to identify and determine the association between gender and characteristics of palatal rugae in Nepalese population. Materials & Methods: Characteristics of palatal rugae including number, le... see more
Bikash Sah, Bishwanath Yadav, Shivendra Jha
Background & Objectives: Blunt trauma is more likely to be missed because clinical signs are less obvious in many regions of the body. This study was done with an objective to compare external and internal injuries of autopsy cases with fatal blunt trauma... see more
Diptesh Aryal, Renu Gurung, Moda Nath Marhatta
Background & Objectives: Gabapentin has been used successfully as a non-opioid analgesic adjuvant for postoperative pain management. We hypothesized that the preoperative use of gabapentin prolonged the analgesic effect of epidural morphine without an inc... see more
Khem Raj Bhusal, Rabindra Simkhada, Pramod Nepal
Background & Objectives: This study was conducted with objective of studying the lipid abnormalities in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosed on the basis of ultrasound.Materials & Methods: Total 100 patients consisting of 67 males and... see more
Rajesh Gyawali, Varun Pratap Singh
Background & Objectives: Maxillary anterior tooth to tooth proportion has a special value in dental esthetics. This study aimed to assess the apparent proportion of maxillary anteriors and possible association with lower anterior facial height and maloccl... see more
Sajeev Shrestha, Shivalal Sharma, Nidesh Sapkota, Dhirendra K Giri, Dharanidhar Baral
Background & Objectives: It is thought that chronic stress negatively affects immune response efficacy which in turn cause an imbalance between host and parasite leading to periodontal breakdown. The study aims to investigate the association bet... see more
Sunita Khanal, Rosina Bhattarai, G Nagaraja Rao, Sujita Shrestha
Background & Objectives: Worldwide, 60 to 90% of school children have experienced dental caries with higher prevalence in Asian and Latin American countries and poor dental and oral health and untreated oral disease can have a significant impact on ... see more
Rajesh Panjiyar, Rajeev Sharma, Shankar Laudari, Madhu Gupta, Madhav Ghimire, Pawina Subedi, Gagnapatnam Subramanyam
Background & Objectives: The cardiovascular complications including morbidity and mortality remains alarmingly high in all stages of chronic kidney disease. Although patients with chronic kidney disease share many of the similar risk factors for cardiovas... see more
Sabita Paudel, M Sudarsana Chetty, Shankar Laudari, Nuwadatta Subedi
Background & Objectives: Acute Hypertension is the most common condition seen in primary care and leads to myocardial infarction, stroke, renal failure, and death if not detected early and treated appropriately. The study was conducted with the obje... see more
Pragya Regmee, Jyotsna Rimal, Iccha Kumar Maharjan, Sushma Pandey, Deepa Niroula, Abhinaya Luitel
First described by Hullihen in 1844, Pyogenic granuloma (PG) is a benign, exophytic vascular tumor. It is not infective, purulent or granulomatous but a reactive inflammatory mass of blood vessels with few fibroblasts within the mucosa or skin. Without an... see more
Deepika Kapoor, Deepanshu Garg
Orofacial clefts (OFC) are one of the most common congenital problems seen with a very high incidence. It imparts a negative effect on the overall health of the child by hindering in his feeding practices, normal facial growth, development of dentition an... see more
Anbreen Iqbal, Muhammad Imran Qadir, Muhammad Asif
Diabetes is not one disease but rather is a heterogeneous group of syndromes characterized by an elevation of fasting blood glucose caused by a relative or absolute deficiency in insulin. The two main types of diabetes occur, type-1 is insulin dependent d... see more