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- 1From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn India, kala-azar (Visceral leishmaniasis; VL) affects millions of people, and the state of Bihar accounts for nearly 90% cases, followed by West Bengal and Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Neighboring countries like Nepal...
- 2From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe disease associated with infection of the reticuloendothelial system by Leishmania species. The infection is acquired through sandfly bites. Recent large scale epidemics...
- 3From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Immunocompromised individuals are susceptible to pulmonary aspergillus infection, but invasive aspergillus infection is extremely rare in the presence of normal immunity. We report a case of invasive...
- 4From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir, Olanzapine is a thienobenzodiazepine that is a serotonin and dopamine receptor antagonist. Commonly observed adverse effects include orthostatic hypotension, constipation, weight gain, somnolence, extrapyramidal...
- 5From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND: To study whether Pseudomonas aeruginosa may directly trigger peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids, since lipid peroxidation is a mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of sepsis. METHODS:...
- 6From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe report a male with harlequin foetus (HF) a product of consanguineous union. The maternal age was 37 years and paternal age was 42 years. This baby born at 29 weeks of gestation was weighing 1300g at birth. He died 15...
- 7From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir, We recently had a patient aged 30 years who was 7 months' pregnant with complaints of labour pains. There was no history of leaking or bleeding per vaginum and she had no symptoms suggestive of heart disease. On...
- 8From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Currently, glaucoma is recognised as an optic neuropathy. Selective death of retinal ganglion cells (RGC) is the hallmark of glaucoma, which is also associated with structural changes in the optic nerve...
- 9From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Leishmaniasis is a major world health problem, which is increasing in incidence. In Northern Europe it is seen in travellers returning from endemic areas. The protozoa is transmitted by sandflies and may...
- 10From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA 30 years old female, mother of a three-year-old child, presented with breathlessness and chest pain for four days and orthopnoea for last two days. She had no past history of cardiac, renal or thyroid disease. On...
- 11From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir, A 57-year-old, normotensive man presented with a one month history of throbbing headache in the right frontal region and three episodes of epistaxis. His otolaryngologic, ophthalmic and systemic examinations...
- 12From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrom fishes to man, sound reception and balance are combined in one sensory organ and in a single cranial nerve; nobody knows why this should be, or what connection (if any) sound reception has with balance. It is a...
- 13From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIonized calcium estimation http://www.ncemi.org/cgi-ncemi/edcalc.pl?TheCommand=Load&NewFile= ionized_calcium_estimation&BlankTop=1 IV Infusion Rate http://www.medcalc.com/ivrate.html IV Medication Drip...
- 14From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDistal locking of intramedullary nails can be problematic. We present a simple technique to aid freehand locking of an intramedullary nail. Technique A Steinmann pin is pushed through the spout of a 50 ml bladder...
- 15From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA 73-year-old lady was admitted with abdominal pain, vomiting and significant weight loss. Her initial biochemical profiles were normal. Plain radiographs of the chest and abdomen were normal. An abdominal ultrasound...
- 16From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND: Lidocaine, an antiarrhythmic drug has been shown to be effective against post-ischaemic reperfusion injury in heart. However, its effect on pulmonary reperfusion injury has not been...
- 17From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir, An eighty five year old man presented with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to prostatic enlargement. The total prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels were 2250 ng/ml. Histopathology examination of the...
- 18From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed'There is perhaps no phenomenon in the field of biology that touches so many fundamental questions as the union of the germ cells in the act of fertilisation; in the supreme event all the strands of webs of two lives...
- 19From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder is treated with rapid decrement of immunosuppressive therapy. This cannot be achieved with ease in patients on long-term glucocorticoid therapy, as chronically...
- 20From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of some species of sandflies affects various age groups depending on the infecting Leishmania species, geographic location, disease reservoir, and...