Impact of Topical Epinephrine with Xylocaine on Drainage After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Introduction: We evaluated the impact of topical epinephrine with xylocaine on drainage after axillary lymph node dissection.

Methods: Fifty-two women were randomized into two groups, epinephrine with xylocaine drainage (ED) and conventional drainage group (CD). The amount of drainage, duration of drainage catheter, incidence of seroma formation and wound infection were noted.

Effectiveness of adhesive taping to reduce pain, swelling and trismus after fracture mandible surgery.

Swelling, pain and trismus constitute the major post-operative morbidity after surgery for mandibular fractures. We assessed the role of kinesio taping in mitigating these. Two groups of 15 patients were compared; those who had such applied to the side of the fracture and a control group of those who did not.

Barriers to CPAP Use in India: An Exploratory Study.

Study Objectives: To investigate adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy and identify barriers to CPAP use among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in India.

Methods: A self-devised semistructured questionnaire (which collected patients' demographic information, socioeconomic position, and information about disease status, symptoms, and complications) was administered to consecutive patients with moderate to severe OSA from June 2015 to August 2016. Patients were grouped according to CPAP device buying behavior (buyers versus nonbuyers) and CPAP compliance behavior (compliant versus noncompliant).

Attenuative role of mangiferin in oxidative stress-mediated liver dysfunction in arsenic-intoxicated murines.

Mangiferin (MAG), a natural xanthone mainly derived from mangoes, possesses great antioxidative potentials. The present study has been carried out to investigate the hepato-protective role of MAG, against arsenic (As)-induced oxidative damages in the murine liver. As, a well-known toxic metalloid, is ubiquitously found in nature and has been reported to affect nearly all the organs of the human body via oxidative impairment.

Mangiferin attenuates oxidative stress induced renal cell damage through activation of PI3K induced Akt and Nrf-2 mediated signaling pathways.

Background: Mangiferin is a polyphenolic xanthonoid with remarkable antioxidant activity. Oxidative stress plays the key role in tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP) induced renal cell damage. In this scenario, we consider mangiferin, as a safe agent in tBHP induced renal cell death and rationalize its action systematically, in normal human kidney epithelial cells (NKE).

Symmetrical peripheral gangrene-a case report and brief review.

A 30 year-old gentleman presented to casualty with history of pain abdomen for six days, fever and decreased urine output since two days. He was in a state of septic shock and was diagnosed to have intestinal perforation. His peripheral pulses were not palpable except for the femoral and brachial vessels.

Lifetime risk and trends in lung cancer incidence in greater Mumbai.

Objective: To estimate the probability of developing lung cancer in the entire life span of the people of Greater Mumbai and variation according to age and sex. Information on cancer incidence trends in a community forms the scientific basis for planning and organising prevention, diagnosis and treatment. During the last 24 year period, a total of 11,458 lung cancer cases were registered (9,052 male and 2,406 female) by the Bombay Cancer Registry.