Cabalak, Mehmet Bal, Tayibe Onlen, Yusuf Demir, Mehmet
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Evaluation of the incidence and predictors of failure of direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus genotype 1b patients is important. Our retrospective cohort study assessed 172 Turkish patients who had received a full course of such treatment and could be checked for sustained virologic response. The overall treatment failure rate wa...
Vikram, Kumar Agarwala, Pragya Bhargava, Anudita Jain, Yogesh Jagzape, Tushar Wasnik, Pritam
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Scrub typhus and leptospirosis are bacterial zoonotic diseases reported from different parts of India, whose prevalence in Chhattisgarh is unknown. Our study was carried out to delineate the prevalence of these illnesses there and to assess the clinical profiles of rural and urban patients. A total of 169 patients with acute febrile illnesses (AFI)...
Velev, Valeri Popov, Metodi Tomov, Latchezar Golemanov, Branimir
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The course of acute hepatitis A (AHA) in childhood is most often benign. There are relatively few reports of gallbladder involvement during such infection and its consequences. We discuss the cases of 75 children (mean age = 4.5 years) with confirmed AHA. Clinical and laboratory evaluation upon admission were classical for AHA. Only two children ha...
Armstrong, Lois J Cynthia, Sharon George, Miriam Zachariah, Anand
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In Bihar, an estimated 4500 snakebite deaths occur per year, but community data are scarce. Using a multi-stage cluster design, 4159 households were interviewed across six Community Development (CD) blocks in North Bihar, identifying 206 snakebites and 254 deaths between the Chhaat festivals of 2014 and 2015. Concurrently, 357 snakebite victims pre...
Budhiraja, Richa Bhargava, Siddharth Sood, Neena
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Mucormycosis is generally considered to be an acute, rapidly progressing, opportunistic fungal infection. Chronic manifestations are extremely rare. Mucormycosis affecting the jejunum is very rare and few cases have been reported. We report a case of mucormycosis causing jejunal stricture in an infant aged six months.
Veraldi, Stefano Schianchi, Rossana Esposito, Luigi Pontini, Paolo Nazzaro, Gianluca
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Postscabies prurigo (PSP) is caused by a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to antigens of the mite. Treatment is based on potent topical or intralesional corticosteroids. We present the results of a study on the effectiveness of a topical combination of diflucortolone and chlorquinaldol. Eighteen African patients who had been previously affected by...
Bansal, Mohit Dalal, Poonam Kadian, Yogender Malik, Navneeti
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Liver abscesses, either pyogenic or amoebic, with or without the involvement of the pleura, are not infrequently encountered in children. Isolated tubercular liver abscess without active pulmonary, gastrointestinal or other clinical evidence of tuberculosis is, however, rare and more so its rupture into the pleura. We report a case of a 14-year-old...
Bhattacharya, S S Satapathi, S
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Alsebaey, Ayman Elhelbawy, Mostafa
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Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) patients commonly have insulin resistance which is a risk factor for disease progression. Oesophageal varices may bleed with high mortality. We aimed to assess the relationship between insulin resistance and oesophageal varices. HCV-related compensated liver cirrhosis patients (n = 146) underwent gastroscopy and homeostasi...
Williams, Vijai Iyer, Rajalakshmi Reshma, Aramanadka Jayashree, Muralidharan Mohindra, Satyawati Verma, Sanjay
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Mucocoeles are slow-growing, locally aggressive, mucus-containing cysts, lined by epithelium, which, when infected, are called pyomucocoeles. We present the case of a five-year-old girl who presented with a frontal pyomucocoele requiring decompression and adequate antibiotics.
