45 articles in this issue
Fahad Algithami,Hassan Algithami,Abdulmajid Algithami,Manal Algithami,Khalid Algithami,Ghazwa Algithami,Doaa Ghaleb
This is a concise letter on the observation of a patient with large bilateral asymmetric ulcerative cutaneous metastasis from rectal carcinoma.Keywords: anal cancer, Buttocks, Colon cancer, Cutaneous metastasis, Rectal cancer
Ajay Daphale,Pranjal Jagtap
Background: With the rising mortality rate, worldwide liver cirrhosis has been ranked as the 13th leading cause of mortality. Portal hypertension is one of the common consequences of liver cirrhosis. Further, portal hypertension has its own comp... see more
Kirtee Meshram,Sushil Pande,Nilesh Andhorikar,Milind Borkar
Introduction: Nowadays with increasing use of social media platforms for each and everything, there is an increasing trend for use of whatsapp based consultation for many diseases. But what’s app base impression has many limitations and may resu... see more
Megha D Sheth,Sushil Gawande,Vivek Kirpekar,Sudhir Bhave,Rahul Tadke,Abhijeet Faye
Background: The first laboratory-confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported in India on 30 January 2020. Since then, there has been exponential growth in cases, with India now ranking second in the global burden of COVID-19.... see more
Balaji G Tuppekar,Sanjay G Mutyepod,Abhinand S Kumbar
Background: The use of Isoniazid Prevention Therapy (IPT) helps normalize the health issues of patients with TB. The majority of patients suffering from these diseases are from a low-income group with poor education. They do not have adequate kn... see more
Purnima Dey Sarkar,Vandana Verma,Ajay Bhatt,Shiv Narayan Lahariya
Background: Diabetes is a systemic disease with several complications affecting both the length and quality of life. One of these complications is periodontal disease (periodontitis). The periodontal diseases are considered as the “sixth complic... see more
Balaji G Tuppekar,Shahid M Patel,Girija P Nair,Abhay G Uppe
Background: COPD is the major cause of morbidity and mortality across the world. In addition to this, the major factor that is contributing in this disease is smoking. This kind of problem occurs due to airflow obstruction that influences the pr... see more
Lavanya S Peter
Background: Obstructive Lung Disease (OLD) becomes global health issues that influencing the physical health and economic conditions of people. Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD) is the disease of airways characterized by obstruction and influenc... see more
Ravindra J Shinde,Sushama Dugad,Gauri Kulkarni,Kappagantu Surya Chaitanya Neeladrirao Subbarao
Background: Global pandemic started in early December 2019 from Wuhan, China and this didn’t spare any part of the world. Millions of deaths have been reported and the disease treatment has been itself challenging due to varied clinical presenta... see more
Ritesh Jaiswal,Venkata Sivaram G V,S.V.L. Narasimha Reddy,Daruru Venkata Srinath
Background: Closed reduction used for management of ankle fractures usually result into delayed healing. It inhibits the healing of the ankle fractures. On the contrary, open reduction and internal fixation helps to preserve the supply of blood ... see more
Chhabi Satpathy,Nirmal Kumar Mohanty,Satya Narayan Routray,Bijay Kumar Dash,Ashirbad Parhi
Aim: To study the prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Coronary Artery Disease patient and the correlation of Coronary Artery Disease severity in patients of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseMaterials and Methods: Study included 124 pat... see more
Ganeswar Sethy,Biswajit Pattanaik,Abinash Panda,Prasanta Purohit,Geetanjali Sethy
Introduction: Fever is one of the common presentation of children to paediatric emergency. Fever is defined as axillary temperature of 99.5 ?F. A young febrile child without definite localizing sign of infection may develop bacteraemia and seri... see more
Lincoln Kumar Patel,Koresh Prasad Dash,Sworupa Nanda Mallick,Anupam Mishra
Background: Multiple scoring systems have been addressed to identify those patients who need emergency appendicectomy as the risk of delay could be avoided. Of these, the consideration of both sore related to the Alvarado and Tzanakis is essenti... see more
Manoj Kumar Sethy,Manita Tamang,Dhirendra Nath Soren,Jaganath Subedhi,M Sivarama Krishna
Background: Acute Pancreatitis (AP) is a very common cause of acute abdomen in emergency department. The disease may vary from mild self-limiting symptoms to multi organ failure and has high mortality rate. Although most of the cases are treated... see more
Surender Kumar,Kamala Verma,Girish Chandra Baniya
Background: Depression is a common psychiatric disorder in trauma patients. Early detection of depression in a traumatized patients can help alleviate long-term symptoms and adverse effects associated with depression. This study aimed to determi... see more
Vinod Kumar Mandala,Murali Krishna Thummakomma,Siddhartha Gangadhari,Sireesha Patibandla,T Jaya Chandra
Introduction: Seizures are the most common neurologic disorder of childhood. A study was undertaken to find the correlation between serum Calcium and Magnesium levels and seizure disorders in pediatric age.Materials and Methods: It was a prospective ... see more
S Arunkumar,V Sakthivel,R Praveen Babu,Naveen Sathish.V
Introduction: According to the World Health Organization, hypertension is responsible for 13% of all deaths worldwide, making it a critical public health problem in developing and developed countries. Economic development, affluence, urbanizatio... see more
M Sornaranjani,CP Ramani,K Karuppasamy
Background: Peritonitis is a serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). It is the primary reason for hospitalization and switching over to hemodialysis. In the present study, we aimed to determine the microbiological profile of peritoneal... see more
Tushar Kambale,Kanika Jain,Komal D Sawaimul,C R Gore
Background: Leprosy is a chronic infectious granulomatous disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, with a prevalence rate corresponded to 0.2/10000. Skin and peripheral nerves are mainly affected exhibiting spectrum of clinical and histopathologi... see more
Sakthi Surya P,Selvaraj Nallusamy,Balamurugan G
Introduction: Head and neck cancers (HNC) constitute about one-third of all cancers in India. A combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy is used to manage them. There is a high incidence of PPCs following head and neck surgeries. Th... see more
Snehlata Hingway,Niranjana Sakhare
Background: Liver is the principal site of many metabolic activities and is vulnerable to many metabolic, toxic, microbial and circulatory insults. It is frequently involved in metastatic spread of malignancies fromall parts of body.Aims: This study ... see more
Poonam Sharma,Deepa Hans,Navneet Naz
Background: Leucoerythroblastosis was considered as a circulating expression of haematological and non-haematological malignancies. However many benign conditions are also associated with leucoerythroblastosis such as hemolytic anaemia, marked i... see more
Sumita Mohapatra,Suresh Chandra Swain,Debasmita Jena
Background: The Primary open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma causing irreversible blindness. Myopia is one of the risk factor responsible for pathogenesis of glaucoma. The association between myopia and primary open angle glau... see more
Prashant J Hisalkar,Anupama Patne,Akanksha Dubey
Background: India leads the world with the largest number of Diabetic subjects, hence can be called as Diabetic Capital ofWorld. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder resulting from insulin insufficiency or function. The resear... see more
Prejeesh Balan,Santhosh Kumar
Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a comorbidity among pulmonary tuberculosis patients is less studied in south India.Objective: To determine the proportion of Pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Manjeri Tuberculosis Unitwho have C... see more
Shamrendra Narayan,Hemant Kr Agarwal,Arvind Kr Singh,Dipti Agarwal,Manoj Pandey
Background: Interpretation of Chest X Ray (CXR) in relation to sputum smear microscopy can be useful in early diagnosis of pulmonary TB. The study aimed to compare the CXR findings in pulmonary TB cases with positive sputum microscopy and negati... see more
Arun Suresh,Vishnu Vijay,Ruchi Tandon
Background: The study was conducted to assess the prevalence of hypokalemia in COVID 19 patients and its correlation with severity of infection and requirement of invasive mechanical ventilation. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective stu... see more
Abhinav Kumar,Srikanth N
Background and Aim: The nicotine present in the cigarette smoke induces conduction block, acts as a cardiac A-type potassium channels blockers and increase the ventricular fibril formation which also changes the cardiac electric impulses usually... see more
Shivaleela C,Kumar GV,Chethan ST,Lakshmiprabha S
Background: The dermatoglyphic patterns of dermal ridges that constitute human fingerprint are formed during the early intra-uterine life, between 7th and 21st week of gestation and mature at about seventh month of fetal development. Dermatoglyp... see more
Pooja Agrawal,Aditya Singhal,V K Agrawal
Objectives: This study was conducted to study prescribing pattern of drugs amongst mild to moderate COVID-19 patients in COVID dedicated medical college hospital in northern India.Materials and Methods: A retrospective, descriptive study was conducte... see more
Rashmi Joshi,Dinesh Kumar Yadav,Lakshita Maherda,Poonam Bhargava,Gargi Sharma,Shilpa Jangir
Introduction: India has witnessed severe complications after the second wave of global covid 19 pandemic. The new covid virus variant is so much lethal that it causes severe immunodepression in the covid survivors, and makes them prone to the op... see more
D Prashanth,D Sharath Kumar,M Harikrishna Reddy,Ch Subhash Kumar
Introduction: What has to be stressed is the need to be cautious with such individuals and to broaden our differentials to include P. vivax as a possible cause of severe malaria. Patients who are aggressively handled and treated can have a bette... see more
Priyanka Chintaram Sahu,Inamdar I F,Ajaykumar Chintaram Sahu
Context: Rural population of India is grossly underserved by healthcare professionals. Gap exits between health services for urban and rural communities.Aims: 1) To determine the attitude of medical students towards serving rural areas and factors af... see more
Rima Kamat,Shilpa Gatlewar,Sangeeta Kini
Background: Thalassemia being one of the commonest causes of anaemia, screening remains is the backbone for diagnosing traits. Considering expensive confirmatory diagnostic tests, aim of this study was to study utility of haematological paramete... see more
Kapil Raghuvanshi,Swati Agarwal,Rajeev Lohokare,Purnima Dey Sarkar,Rohit Manyal
Introduction: Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by depressed mood, loss of interest in activities and loss of energy that lasts for two weeks or more. Depression affects individual emotional and psychological well-being with low... see more
Sirish Kumar Shenkeshi,Banna Kiran Kumar,B Vishwanath Naik,Sindhuja .
Introduction: There is an increasing trend of ankle fractures in young as well as elderly patients recently. This study aimed to compare the advantages and disadvantages of tension band wiring with screw fixation for medial malleolar fractures.M... see more
Deepak Pankaj,Nitesh Kumar,Sweta Muni,Kalpana Singh,Vibhuti Bhushan,Bipin Kumar,Nirupam .,Santosh Kumar
Introduction: Chronic pelvic pain in females is one of the most bemusing problems that are faced by doctors in day to day practice as physical signs are nonspecific. Laparoscopy is one of the worthy tools in cases of chronic pelvic pain as not o... see more
Roopali Gunjal,Deepa S,Ravindranath C,Sakuntala Mundary,Kiran Kavatagi,Sonal Sonawane
Background: Asymptomatic bacteriuria, UTI and pyelonephritis increase risk of preterm labour and premature rupture of the membranes which results indirectly in worse foetal outcome which was highlighted in this study. Also, the number of drug re... see more
Vijay C. Popat,Shamim Sheikh,Neeru Dave
Background: SARS COV2 is the third known corona virus responsible for fatal respiratory illness in humans. The initial clinical features of the disease are quite often non-specific & not all suspected patients can be tested to exclude or con... see more
Subrata Das,Ajit R. Bhattacharyya
Background: It has been since long, that severe postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) was surgically treated by peripartum hysterectomy. Bilateral ligation of Internal iliac artery is an emerging technique by which we can control PPH efficiently and can ... see more
Shubha H.V
Background: The issue of laboratory critical value (CV) reporting has gained importance in the recent times due to the national focus on patient safety. Critical value notification (CVN) has become an essential part of accreditation procedures f... see more
Priyanka Gupta,Santosh Kumari,Renu Chauhan,Parminder Singh Bhatia
Introduction: Etomidate’s haemodynamic stability is due to its unique lack of effect on the sympathetic nervous system and on baroreceptor function. Even in cardiac patients an induction dose of etomidate results in very stable haemodynamics. Et... see more
Athira Sasidharan,Ramesh Bhaskaran,Nithya M Baiju,A.M Rafi,Chithra Valsan
Introduction: Traditional testing algorithm for syphilis begins with screening non-treponemal test followed by confirmatory treponemal test. Reverse algorithm first screens with a treponemal test; reactive samples are then tested by Rapid plasma... see more
Rajesh Verma,Narendra Bordiya,Monica Razdan,Bhupendra Chouhan,Shiv Shankar Sharma,Pankaj Bansal
Background: Thyroid hormone has many recognized effects on the cardiovascular system that results in significant comorbidity and may also affect the quality of life of diseased person. Objectives: To assess the ECG changes in thyrotoxicosis with... see more
Madhur Gupta,Saumya Awasthi,Arti Kasulkar
Background: The COVID pandemic has caused drastic changes in education systems in the world. The government enforced the restriction of all the educational institutions all over the country and also throughout the world. Due to shut down of inst... see more