13 articles in this issue
Omair Aziz Wani, J. S. Gothankar, Arunesh Kumar, Sachin Gupta
Introduction: Rabies is common in most parts of India. The incidence of animal bite in India is 17.4 per 1000 population. Although cases of animal bite constitute a problem of considerable magnitude, not all the victims seek medical help. There is a need ... see more
Avinash Kumar Boyat, Amrinder Singh, Jaspal Singh Sandhu
Background: Taekwondo is the technique of unarmed combat for self defense that involves the skillful application of techniques that include punching; jumping kicks, blocks, dodges, parrying actions with hands and feet. The stance position has been pointed... see more
Ashalatha P R, Padmini Hannah Noone
Objectives: The human pulmonary valve is an important structure and knowledge about its normal anatomy is essential in detecting valve diseases and in valve replacement surgeries. The normal pulmonary valve has three semilunar cusps or leaflets. The valve... see more
B. Poornima, Sanigala K Anusuya, Sudha Patil, Veerabhadra Goud GK
Introduction: As India has become diabetic hub of the world, we made an attempt to know the prevalence of GDM at Akash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS and RC), Devanahalli, which is a tertiary care center in rural setup. Materials ... see more
Venkatesh Moger, Arun B S, Suresh H, Sagar Reddy S L
Introduction: Diseases of the kidneys can intimately affect lungs by multiple pathological mechanisms, and adversely affect outcome in these patients. Objectives : To study the prevalence of various respiratory diseases in the patients with CKD. Methods: ... see more
Akriti Agarwal, Ruchee Khandelwal, S. N. Singh, Hema Pant, Piyush Kumar, Ashish Kumar Gupta
Objectives: To categorize the lesions of liver observed on FNAC into malignant or benign, to correlate the radiological observations with cytology findings and to perform histopathological correlation wherever possible. Material and methods: A total of 15... see more
Ratna Baral, Basudha Khanal
Background: Staphylococcus aureus is commensal flora but it can lead minor skin infections to life threatening conditions such as endocarditis, pneumonia and septicemia. Spread of multi drug resistance MRSA, therapeutic options become severely limited. Cl... see more
Kusum Kumari, Prakash Kumar
Background: In India irrational prescription of drugs is very common. So audit of prescription must be done time to time to improve its quality. The prescriptions were analyzed based on the objective of the study for promoting rational use of drugs in a p... see more
Rajashekhar Dundaraddy, Sumana R
The Recurrent laryngeal nerve being the main motor nerve of the larynx supplying all the intrinsic muscles of larynx except the cricothyroid, is extremely sensitive to trauma with slight traction of the nerve leading to either temporary or permanent paral... see more
Sadanand G, Nanda K, Muralidhara Krishna CS, Veerabhadra Goud GK
Hypertension is one of the most prevalent diseases of the world and is an unequivocal risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Hypertension is known to be associated with oxidative stress. The enzyme paraoxonase being antiatherogenic and se... see more
Ravindra Nath Sahay, Kavita S Joshi, Amar P Pandit, Kavita J Rawat
Purpose: Incidence of Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is increasing as prevalence of HIV, long term steroids use and organ transplant increase. The study was done to analyze demographic, clinical and biochemical parameters and to correlate these parameters w... see more
Dr. Mahtabuddin, R. C. Sharma, Rashmi Tiwari, Qazi Rais Ahmed
Waist circumference (WC) has been reported as an index of measurement of abdominal obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Recent studies suggest the measurement of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) as an index to predict the amount of visceral fat. Present... see more
Cesar Reis, Haley Reis, Camila Araujo, Charity Russell, Sean Welsh, Akbar Sharip, Paul Kim
Introduction: Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a relapsing and remitting disease that may be caused by exposure to environmental toxins. In this report, we discuss a case of an individual who was occupationally exposed to chemical carcinogens over a period... see more