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- 1From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter a print-run of some 340 years, the scholarly journal has novw assumed a parallel digital life. What began in 1982, when Bibliographic Information Services issued its first electronic edition of the Harvard Business...
- 2From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSir, The article on assessment of subjects asked to participate in a proposed clinical trial by Gitanjali et al, (1) has, as a corollary, scientifically confirmed what I have found in non-research clinical practice. Most...
- 3From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSir, Involuntary, rhythmic or dysrhythmic movements characterized by rapid contractions in the extremities, which develop as a result of the stimulation of the medulla spinalis by several ways is called spinal...
- 4From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA famous surgeon once proclaimed: "There can be a structure with no function; but there cannot be a function with no structure." Surgeons can be excused for their bias towards Anatomy, but what the dramatic statement...
- 5From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGeorge Washington Crile (1,2) was born in a family of Dutch and Scottish-Irish descent, the fifth of eight children. He grew up on a farm near Chili, Ohio, and received his first schooling in a one-room schoolhouse two...
- 6From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSir, Potassium dichromate, a hexavalent compound of chromium, is used as a furniture stainer and as a disinfectant for cleaning swimming pools.(1) Ingestion of this compound is fatal but a few patients have survived. (1)...
- 7From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSir, Seizures may be one of the manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) in about 20% of patients. (1, 2) Since patients in porphyric crisis may develop generalised convulsions, safe anticonvulsant therapy is...
- 8From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's (AD) are major progressive neurological disorders, the risk of which increases with advancing age (65 years and over). In familial cases, however, early onset of...
- 9From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn this age of evidence-based medical treatment, clinicians seek guidance from prospective randomized double-blind trials for treatment decisions. Randomised controlled trials often have drawbacks like fixed dose of...
- 10From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND: Malaria is of immense importance amongst the tropical diseases in India. There is a need to develop newer diagnostic aids and research is necessary to identify new prognostic markers for...
- 11From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA 27-year-old male was admitted to our hospital due to sudden onset of right abdominal pain. Reviewing his history, h had several episodes of epilepsy since the age of 3 years. At the age of 17 years, he had presented...
- 12From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The role and functions of antioxidant micronutrients such as ascorbate (vitamin C), [alpha]-tocopherol (vitamin E) and carotenoids that are provided through the diet in aging and in the prevention of...
- 13From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) is known to be associated with malignancies. Urticarial vasculitis has been linked to lymphomas, but to our knowledge, the association of HUV and non-Hodgkin...
- 14From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND: A retrospective analysis of 28 cases of duodenal tuberculosis (TB) was done to evaluate radiological findings and their value in the diagnosis of the disease. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Upper...
- 15From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA 54-year-old patient was found to have raised bilateral optic nerve heads along with haemorrhage on his right optic disc on routine screening for diabetic retinopathy, by his optician. He was referred to the eye...
- 16From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe world is increasingly becoming aware of the role of intrauterine nutrition on fetal health and its subsequent sequelae in the new born. The issue of peri-conceptional folic acid intake and its effects on the fetus...
- 17From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mental stress is considered to be a precipitating factor in acute coronary events. We aimed to assess the association of subjective of 'perceived' mental stress with the occurrence of...
- 18From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA 35-year-old female presented with pain in the right eye since 6 months with gradual diminution of vision in that eye since the last 2 months, which had progressed to a complete loss of vision since 15 days. The pain...
- 19From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHistorical Background Adams and Foley first described asterixis in 1949 in patients with advanced hepatic encephalopathy. (1) It is a disorder of motor control characterised by brief, arrhythmic interruptions of...
- 20From: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The anaesthetic potency of volatile anaesthetic agents is measured by the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) required to suppress response in 50% of subjects. We studied the effect of...