Nutrition-related parameters of maintenance haemodialysis patients.

Background & Aim: Maintaining good health in haemodialysis patients is a challenging task that helps to reduce morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of nutrition-related complications is uncertain in Sri Lankan maintenance haemodialysis population. This study was carried out as a baseline study to identify the common nutrition-related complications in maintenance haemodialysis patients.

Frequently Relapsing Anterior Nodular Scleritis as the Initial Presentation of a Lethal Systemic Infection: Disseminated Tuberculosis with HIV Coinfection.

Background: Scleritis is a painful inflammatory ocular disease often associated with an underlying systemic illness mostly having an autoimmune aetiology. Tuberculosis usually presents as pulmonary infection, and the ocular presentation is considered to be rare. .

Comparative study on skill and health related physical fitness characteristics between national basketball and football players in Sri Lanka.

Objective: To compare health and skill related physical fitness profiles between healthy, male, basketball and football players of Sri Lankan national teams.

Results: Thirty basketball players (mean age 24 ± 4.5 years) and 30 football players (mean age 23 ± 4.

Bilateral Sensorineural Deafness in a Young Pregnant Female Presenting with a Fever: A Rare Complication of a Reemerging Disease-Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses.

Background: Rickettsial illnesses are a group of arthropod-borne remerging diseases. They are subdivided into three groups as typhus, spotted fever, and scrub typhus group. Complications such as reversible bilateral deafness due to spotted fever rickettsioses are infrequently reported in the literature.

Corrigendum to "Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting as Prolonged Pyrexia and Stauffer's Syndrome: Can a Routine Ultrasound Scan Fail to Detect a Renal Cell Carcinoma?".

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2018/4215041.].