15 articles in this issue
Sumit Kumar, S P Singh, Ambrish Gupta, Yaswant Rao, Sunil Taneja
Worldwide reporting of vaccines adverse event following immunization is a challenging problem because of absence of well framed reporting system in maximum countries of the world. In Past ten years fear of disease like polio, measles, tetanus, diphtheria ... see more
Mohammed Shahana, A Padma, P. Mahaboob Khan
Introduction: Pigmentary disorders of the skin are a great concern to the patient, more so when it involves the face. It is one of the common clinical presentations to the dermatology OPD. Facial pigmentation may be multifactorial and in some etiology may... see more
Sreejith Hariharan, Biju M. L., P. Parukutty
Introduction: Haemodynamic instability during intubation is a well documented fact. These responses may produce myocardial ischemia or infarction in susceptible cases. Dexmedetomidine is a newly introduced is a highly selective alpha 2 adrenergic agonist ... see more
Shrirang N. Patil, Vinayak Viplav
1)Assessment of physical fitness, Cardio-respiratory fitness 2) To assess the chances of developing obesity in medical students 3) If their fitness is already affected, suggest interventions to improve it and to prevent further harm. Methods: Present stud... see more
Bhupesh Jain, Suresh Goyal
Objective : To study the clinical and etiological profile of Acute Febrile Encephalopathy (AFE) in South Rajasthan. Methods : Children in the age of 1 month to 18 year with acute febrile encephalopathy were enrolled in the study. The investigations includ... see more
Deepti Kumari, S. K. Kailwoo
Objective: Present study was done to assess the effect of Intravitreal injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide on visual acuity in patients with diabetic macular edema. Method : This prospective study was conducted on 30 eyes of 30 patients attending the Out... see more
Dr. Ashok Chaudhari, Dr. Devavrat Vaishnav
Background: Propofol has the disadvantage of causing pain or discomfort on injection. The aim of the study was to assess the efficacy of ketamine pretreatment to alleviate the propofol injection pain. Methods: One hundred ASA I and II adults, scheduled fo... see more
Madhavan C, Subhasis Das, Suganthi B, King Herald Kisku
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) remains a highly under diagnosed clinical entity since many clinicians use sleep questionnaires for diagnosis, instead of the gold standard, albeit expensive test, polysomnography. This study compared th... see more
Tanmay Nag, Arnab Ghosh
Background: This study was aimed to investigate cardiometabolic risk factors by fasting blood glucose (FBG) tertiles in a rural community of Asian Indian origin. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 1007 participants (645 males and 36... see more
Mohita Singh, Indu Khurana, Z. S. Kundu
Background- Cervical spondylosis(CS) is a broad term which describes the age related chronic disc degeneration which starts in the intervertebral disc with osteophyte formation and lead to physiological degenerative cascade that contributes to biomechanic... see more
Karthika Jyothish, Subhasis Das
Background: The nasal cycle, an ultradian rhythm, leads to an alternating lateralized vasodilatation and vasoconstriction of the nasal mucosa. Left nostril predominance is associated with parasympathetic activity and right nostril with sympathetic activit... see more
Rosmee Mahajan, Shyamal Koley
Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes have an increased prevalence of dyslipidemia. A timely intervention to normalize circulating lipids could reduce the chances of cardiovascular diseases. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is the indicator of glycemic sta... see more
Neeta Verma, Kaurna Taksande, Devavrat Vaishnav
Alpha-2-adrenergic agonists have peripheral analgesic effect, We have assessed the potential analgesic effect of intraarticular clonidine after intraarticular administration in arthroscpic knee surgery. Intraarticular (IA) local anaesthetics are often use... see more
Suchismita Chakrabarti, Urvee Sarkar, Sujata Sarangi
Polyembryoma in pure form is a rare entity, more often associated with other germ cell tumor components, commonly observed as a part of malignant mixed germ cell tumor with predominant yolk-sac component. We report a case of a 23 year old male having mali... see more
Mariappan Shanthi, Mohini Singh, Uma Sekar, Rajkumar M, Sridharan Kopula Sathyamurthy
Disseminated Cryptococcosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. The respiratory tract is the primary site of infection from where it disseminates hematogenously to the central nervous system and skin. Timely dia... see more