Changing Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Factors Affecting them and the Related Problems.

Sleep affects physical growth, behavior and emotional development besides determining cognitive functioning, learning and attention especially of a growing child. Adolescence represents one of the critical transitions in the life span and is characterized by a tremendous pace in growth and change that is second only to that of infancy. Adolescent sleep patterns deserve particular attention because of the potential impact on school performance.

To study the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance in patients with hepatitis C virus related chronic liver disease.

Background: Hepatitis C infection is a major cause of Chronic Liver Disease and the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus is also high. Diabetes has been hypothesised as one of Extrahepatic manifestations of Hepatitis C.

Aims And Objectives: The objective of our study was to study the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance in patients with HCV related liver disease.

Hepatic vascular injury: clinical profile, endovascular management and outcomes.

Background: Endovascular management using angiographic embolization (AE) has been widely used with success as non operative management (NOM) in blunt hepatic trauma. We, in a tertiary care hospital in North of India, assess our use of endovascular management in patients of blunt and post operative trauma with active hepatic vascular bleeding and unstable hemodynamics in controlling bleeding.

Methods: A retrospective review of inpatients from January 2006 to July 2012 requiring transarterial embolization/stenting for active hepatic vascular bleeding was done.