Histomorphological Spectrum of Duodenal Pathology in Functional Dyspepsia Patients.

Introduction: Functional Dyspepsia (FD) is one of the most common causes of gastrointestinal symptoms aetiology of which is poorly understood.

Aim: To study duodenal histomorphological features and their relationship with () infection in patients of FD.

Materials And Methods: This case control study included 50 cases of FD patients selected according to Rome III criteria and 30 age and sex matched controls.

Absolute Lymphocyte Count as a Surrogate Marker of CD4 Count in Monitoring HIV Infected Individuals: A Prospective Study.

Introduction: CD4 cell count has been proposed to be substituted by Absolute lymphocyte count in monitoring HIV infected individuals as methods of CD4 cell count and plasma viral estimation require expensive, specialized equipments and highly trained personnel.

Aim: To assess the clinical utility of the Absolute Lymphocyte Count (ALC) to serve as a surrogate marker for predicting a CD4 count < 200 cells/μl in patients with HIV infection in resource poor countries.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study of 61 patients with HIV/AIDS was conducted.

Gaucher's disease: report of 4 cases.

Review of records for last 5 years has shown 4 cases of Type I Gaucher's disease in our institute. The cases were diagnosed on bone marrow aspiration, examination of splenectomy specimen, liver biopsy and post mortem in one case. The age range was 2 years to 22 years.

Pleural fluid analysis with traditional and additional parameters.

36 patients with pleural effusion were studied clinically with pertinent investigations and pleural fluid analysis. The pleural fluid analysis was done with routine protocol including study of traditional parameters like protein and cell count and additional parameters like pleural LDH, GOT(AST) and their ratio with serum LDH and GOT respectively. The utility of these parameters was studied critically.

Aortic dissection and bicuspid aortic valve: an autopsy study.

Medico-legal post-mortems referred to the Department of Pathology, for the histopathological examination, revealed six cases of acute aortic dissection--two in isolation, three in combination with congenital bicuspid aortic valve; and one isolated case of congenital bicuspid aortic valve. One case of isolated aortic dissection was associated with Marfan's syndrome; and one case of aortic dissection with bicuspid aortic valve was associated with polycystic kidneys. History of hypertension could be elicited in two cases.

Tay Sachs disease: an autopsy case report.

This report describes a case report of a postmortem performed on a 5-year old patient of Tay-Sachs disease, presenting with failure to thrive, muscular flaccidity, and cherry-red spots on macula on fundoscopy. There was no history of similarly affected sibling or any other family member. The diagnosis was confirmed by enzyme studies.