Acute Transverse Myelitis and Nicolau Syndrome after Benzathine Penicillin Injection.

Rare complications have been documented due to inadvertent intravascular administration of penicillin such as Nicolau syndrome (lipoatrophy), transverse myelitis, injury to sciatic nerve as well as Hoigne syndrome (transient central nervous system dysfunction).1 We present a case report where a young male developed Nicolau syndrome and transverse myelitis after receiving benzathine penicillin injection.

Awareness about Ethics Committee amongst the Medical Teachers in a Medical College.

Introduction: The Ethics Committees (EC) are established to safeguard the safety and rights of the subjects participating in a research study. No formal training about Ethics Committee is given to the medical students in undergraduate and post graduate education as a part of curriculum.

Aims And Objectives: To study the awareness about the composition and functioning of EC amongst the medical teachers.

The study of complications of vivax malaria in comparison with falciparum malaria in Mumbai.

Introduction: Severe malaria due to P. vivax infection is increasingly observed now a days. Organ failure in vivax malaria is caused by mechanisms of inflammation as well as sequestration.

Moyamoya disease with hypertension in a young adult.

A 13 year old boy presented with recurrent TIAs and was found to have high blood pressure. On investigations he was detected to be Moyamoya disease. Hypertension is known to be associated with Moyamoya disease; the cause being renal artery stenosis.