Rajan, Remya Kapoor, Nitin Asha, Hesarghatta S Paul, Thomas V Thomas, Nihal
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Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (ISCLS) is a potentially fatal disorder characterised by 'attacks' of varying intensity of hypovolemic shock in association with haemoconcentration and hypoalbuminaemia. It is a disease of exclusion, and the severity of attacks may mimic sepsis at presentation. We report a case of a lady with recurrent at...
Aschale, Yibeltal Worku, Ligabaw Addisu, Ayenew Alemu, Mekuannint Alemu, Abebe
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Hookworm infection is a neglected parasitic disease. Direct wet mount is the usual method for the diagnosis of hookworm in Ethiopia, but its sensitivity is unsatisfactory. A cross-sectional study was therefore conducted from January to February 2018 among 192 study participants in Debre Elias district. Stool samples were processed by three methods:...
Arora, Shalabh Abhilash, Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Mitra, Shubhanker Hazra, Darpanarayan Gunasekharan, Karthik Yesudass, P
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Scrub typhus is one of the most common causes of meningo-encephalitis in endemic areas of the Indian subcontinent. Numerous studies have established the reliability of cerebrospinal fluid lactate for differentiation of bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis. However, there are no reported data on the predictive value of cerebrospinal fluid la...
Gupta, Saurabh Gupta, Shikha
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The majority of malarial neurological manifestations are due to plasmodium falciparum and the most dreaded is cerebral malaria. Post-malarial neurological syndrome (PMNS) is rarely reported in adults (10%) and includes a wide variety of neuro-psychiatric manifestations including the rare delayed cerebellar ataxia. We report a case of 60-year-old wo...
Topluoglu, Seher Aktas, Dilber Celebi, Bekir Kara, Fatih Doganay, Mehmet Alp, Emine
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Anthrax is a notifiable disease in Turkey. In order to control the human disease, animal foci are being monitored and prevention and control activities are being implemented by the Ministry of Health in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The objective of our study was to evaluate the national surveillance data and control a...
Bhalla, Kapil Verma, Anjali Nanda, Sanjiv
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Singaravelu, Krishnan P Pandit, Vinay R Chinnakali, Palanivel Bammigatti, Chanaveerappa
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Most snakebite victims in low- and middle-income countries continue to seek many forms of first aid therapy before reaching hospital, the commonest being the application of a tourniquet. Our study looked at a prospective cohort of 382 such patients to ascertain the association of pre-hospital care with clinical outcome, and found that 60% developed...
Aggarwal, Phiza Subramanian, Saravanan Saini, Varinder Aggarwal, Deepak
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Isolated pleural effusion is a rare manifestation of filariasis that mimics tuberculosis, especially in endemic regions. We describe a case of lymphocytic and exudative pleural effusion showing microfilaria on pleural fluid cytology. A retrospective review of all cases of filarial pleural effusion reported after 2000 was conducted to evaluate the a...
de Santana Ferreira, Eric de Souza Júnior, Valter Romão de Oliveira, Jefferson Filipe Silva Costa, Manuela Freire Hazin da Conceição de Barros Correia, Maria de Sá, Alessandra Ferraz
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Visceral leishmaniasis is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the species of the genus Leishmania infantum. The clinical picture includes fever, splenomegaly, leucopenia, anaemia and hypergammaglobulinaemia. There may also be a drop in plasma fibrinogen levels or an increase in plasma fibrinolytic activity. Furthermore, visceral leishmaniasis ma...
Poojari, Vishrutha Shah, Ira Shetty, Naman S Mirani, Sonal Tolani, Drishti
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We aimed to determine the clinical profile and outcome of Indian children with glycogen storage disorders. Ours was a retrospective study from 2005 to 2018 in 36 children diagnosed on the basis of a liver biopsy. Most (77.7%) presented with abdominal swelling but a quarter with convulsion, four of whom had documented hypoglycaemia associated, doll-...