16 articles in this issue
Shyamal Koley, Ritu Atri
Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to estimate the handgrip strength of 129 purposively selected pregnant and non-pregnant women (63 pregnant and 66 non-pregnant women) aged 20-35 years and to search its correlations with selected anthro... see more
Prasad Panbude, Manish Sonkusale, Rashmi Deshpande, Anand Sancheti, Manish Khare
Introduction: Sickle cell hemoglobinopathies spectrum varies from benign sickle cell trait to fatal sickle cell disease. It is recessively inherited genetic disorder, results from mutation chromosome 11 which further ends up matching with valine rather th... see more
Preeti Singh, Vijay Kumar Jaiswal, Priyanka Garg
Background: Abnormal utrerine bleeding is the direct cause of significant health burden for women. Examination of endometrial biopsy is a challenge to pathologists , due to wide range of morphologic patterns. Aims and objectives: The present study was und... see more
Rosmee Mahajan, Shyamal Koley
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases and has become epidemic worldwide. The present study was conducted to find the LH status of patients with diabetes mellitus with the anti-LH lectin Erythrina lithosperma . Methods: A confirmed... see more
Bhupendra Patil, Vilas Malkar, Vivek Karale, Madhuri Ugalmugle, Suwarna Patil
The study was carried on 85 newborns to establish a relationship between umbilical cord serum prolactin levels and gestational age, neonatal lung function and maternal complication. Serum cord prolactin level increased from 166.33ng/ml to 379.36ng/ml from... see more
Gaurav Jagrawal, Vivek Arora, Maheshwar Gunawat, Pankaj Malik
Objective : To find out the prevalence, associate factors and outcome of acute kidney injury in neonatal sepsis. Methods : An observational hospital based prospective study was conducted at outborn NICU, Bal Chikitsalya, RNT Medical College, Udaipur (Raj.... see more
Bharat Lal Sharma, Rameshwar Lal Suman, Suresh Goyal, Anuradha Sanadhya
Objective : To Study the serum albumin levels in edematous severe acute malnutrition children aged 6months to 5 years. Methods: An observational hospital based prospective study was conducted at Malnutrition Treatment Center (MTC), Bal Chikitsalya, RNT Me... see more
Navneet Kumar Kaushik, Kiran Singh
Background and Aim: Visual evoked potential (VEP) is a useful noninvasive neurodiagnostic tool which permits assessment of functional integrity of visual pathways. It is affected by certain physical and physiological parameters. To date, only few baseline... see more
Vivek Sharma, Rashid Anjum, Vikas Choudhary, Tarun Pratap Singh
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death from infectious disease world-wide. In India every year almost twelve lakh patients are notified as having newly diagnosed TB and the percentage of notified cases is only about 58%. This st... see more
Manjusha K. Borde, Ipseeta Ray Mohanty, Ujwala Maheshwari, Rajesh Kumar Suman, YA Deshmukh
Background: Morbidity, mortality and re- infarction rate are higher following myocardial infarction in diabetics than non-diabetic subjects. Recently, glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 was shown to have cardioprotective effects, but treatment with GLP-1 is li... see more
Sangeeta Gupta, Gaurav Gupta, Surjit Singh
Background and objectives: Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) have widespread clinical utility. BAEP responses exhibit a normal variability due to various non-pathologic factors and age is one of the variables suggested to have considerable infl... see more
Peddiraju Vidyadhara Rani, Naveen Kumar S., Ravinder T
Introduction: Lymphadenopathy can be due to any disease process involving lymph nodes. Enlargement of lymph node is a very common clinical symptom seen in outpatient department of any hospital. Lymphadenopathy can occur at any age group and at any site of... see more
Swapnil B Kaikade, Nitin D. Pise
Aim: The present questionnaire survey was conducted with an aim of assessing the knowledge, attitude, and awareness related to pharmacovigilance among the final year students of MBBS and BDS in a teaching hospital. Materials and Methods: To assess the kno... see more
Nitin C. Kotwal
Spinal Anaesthesia Technique required for Radical Mastectomy is the same as routine spinal anaesthesia. The table tilt should be head low 1520 (Kotwal Tilt), diseased side should be dependent (e.g. left lateral for left radical mastectomy) L3L4 space.
Meenakshi Sindhu, Ravi Kant Bamotra, Shazia Qayum
Introduction: Fungal keratitis is a commonly encountered infection of the cornea which may lead to moderate to severe visual loss. Aim: To report the result of intra-stromal voriconazole in refractory keratomycosis. Method: Fungal keratitis is a commonly ... see more
Gauri Arora
This is a case of anaesthetic management of multiple post-burn contractures involving the neck and Rt. Elbow. An unconventional approach of central neuraxial block was used in this case. The feasibility, safety and advantages of this anaesthetic strategy ... see more