12 articles in this issue
Shobitha Rao, Guruprasad Bhat
Background: Chemotherapy and immunotherapy are the backbone for treatment of most NSCLC (non small cell lung cancer). But many patients are not able to tolerate chemotherapy and not able to afford immunotherapy in our scenario. Objective: The aim of this ... see more
Ekram Wassim Abdelwahab
Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) is a grouping of many unrelated medical conditions that share the feature of persistent unexplained fever that does not resolve spontaneously within the period for self-limited infections and whose cause can not be ascertai... see more
Kalpana Singh, Bhawna Mahajan, Neha Srivastava, Nisha Singh
Introduction: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as the raised plasma glucose level detected first during pregnancy. A simple blood sugar test can detect gestational diabetes and to interpret the value various criteria are available like ADA (... see more
Gauri Pathare, Sunila Raju, Manoj Mashru, Vinod Shah, Kavita Shalia
Background: Oxidative stress has been implicated in pathogenesis of hypertension, a major cardiovascular risk factor. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are primary contributors to systemic reactive oxygen species (ROS). The impact of ROS-products... see more
Sneha Singh; Shalendra Singh; Amit Sharma, Priya Taank; Deepak Dwivedi
Background : Literature established the role of pregabalin in the pain management. However, there are limited studies in attenuating postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LAC). So, we evaluate the analgesic effect of two different doses o... see more
Elias Sharma, Jaideep M Ratkal
Ureter due to its proximity to the female genital tract and involvement in local pathologies is susceptible to inadvertent iatrogenic injury during pelvic surgeries. The risk of ureteral injury is highest during gynaecological surgeries and lowest during ... see more
Nayani Radhakrishna, Shalendra Singh, Ritesh Sharma, Varun Bajaj, Priya Taank
Background: Venous pressure can be measured by placing Central venous catheter (CVC) and Peripheral venous catheter (PVC). Venous pressure recording obtained from CVC is called central venous pressure (CVP) and that obtained from PVC is called peripheral ... see more
Nirmal Famila Bettie, Suganya R, Dr. Suryaprabha, Dr. Subalakshmi
Temporomandibular disorder is a very common problem encountering up to 33 of individual in their lifetime. These disorders include muscular conditions, such as myofacial pain and disorders affecting the temporomandibular joint complex, such as disc replac... see more
Amjad Tarsisi, MD, Taym Darwish, MD, Fadi Kassem, MD, Ali Moualla, MD
Purpose: To compare changes in the value and location of the corneal thinnest point, anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber volume (ACV) and iridocorneal angel after myopic transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (tPRK) by CSO Sirius imaging d... see more
Topiramate is sulfamate-substituted monosaccharide anti-epileptic and migraine drug, recently FDA approved as an anti-obesity medicine. Many reports of symptomatic urolithiasis with Topiramate usage as anti-epileptic and migraine drug are available includ... see more
Ofonime E. Johnson, Assi E. Assi, Ibienebari J. Bakpo, Ubokobong E. Harrison, Freda E. Angba, Martin A. Okon
Background : Health care workers are at risk of acquiring infections from blood borne pathogens in healthcare settings. Objectives : This study was carried out to assess the knowledge and practice of standard precautions (SP) among healthcare workers in a... see more
Vaishali C. Shelgaonkar, Medha A. Sangawar, Himani Baxy
Background: With the increasing number of surgeries being performed on elderly people worldwide each year, it has become important to study and manage the complications related to them. Post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is an age-related complic... see more