Compliance to the secondary prophylaxis and awareness of rheumatic heart disease: A cross-sectional study in low-income province of India.

Background: Rheumatic heart disease is a preventable problem and regular secondary prophylaxis and proper awareness about this disease among common people may reduce the burden of this disease in any region.

Objectives: To find out compliance to the secondary prophylaxis of Rheumatic heart disease and awareness about this disease among common people of Bihar.

Methodology: This was a questionnaire based cross sectional study to find out compliance to the secondary prophylaxis and awareness of Rheumatic heart disease, conducted at two tertiary care referral hospitals of Bihar.

Post-traumatic Pseudoaneurysm of Hepatic Artery: An Unusual Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Pseudoaneurysm of hepatic artery with upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a rare but life-threatening complication of blunt trauma to the abdomen. An 8-year-old child with this condition was treated successfully with percutaneous coil embolization of the pseudoanysm.

Individualized dosing of oral propranolol for treatment of infantile hemangioma: a prospective study.

Introduction: infantile hemangioma is the most common benign tumor in infancy. Currently, oral propranolol is the treatment of choice for infantile hemangioma, but there is no consensus when it comes to its recommended dosage for this condition. Hence this study was conducted to find out the appropriate dosage of oral propranolol for treatment of infantile hemangioma.

FishMap: a community resource for zebrafish genomics.

An enormous amount of information on a genomics scale is available for zebrafish (Danio rerio), which is a well-studied model organism for human diseases. However, a majority of this annotation is scattered in obscure data sources. There have been limited efforts to present it on a unified and integrated platform, which would help to understand the biological processes in this organism better.