Early experience with the use of trochanteric reattachment plate for the treatment of Vancouver type B 1 periprosthetic hip fractures.

Objective: The purpose of our study is to study the usefulness of trochanteric reattachment plate in the management Vancouver type B 1 periprosthetic femur fractures.

Methods: We describe a case series of 15 (12 F: 3 M) Vancouver type B 1 fracture fixed with trochanteric reattachment plate with 3 years follow up. Patients with Vancouver A, B2, B3 and C fractures were excluded in the study.

Diagnostic Utility of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in Gall Bladder Lesions: An Experience from a Tertiary Care Cancer Center in Eastern India.

Introduction: Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most common malignancy, representing 80-95% of biliary tract cancers. Although ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (USG-FNAC) has emerged as an effective diagnostic the tool for the precise diagnosis of gallbladder lesions, data on its diagnostic utility and cytomorphological categorization of gallbladder lesions are lacking.

Aims: To study the diagnostic utility of USG-FNAC in gallbladder lesions.

Simple Anthropometric Indices are Useful for Predicting Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [NAFLD] in Asian Indians.

Background And Aims: With the rising prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common liver disorder in both developed and developing nations. Several studies on NAFLD have described waist circumference, a surrogate marker of visceral fat accumulation and waist height ratio as a better screening tool for NAFLD and metabolic syndrome than body mass index (BMI). We conducted this study to assess simple abdominal obesity indices as a predictor of NAFLD and determine the appropriate cut-off levels with reference to NAFLD.

Biochemical Profile of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Patients in Eastern India with Histopathological Correlation.

Aminotransferase assay is often used as a screening test as well as an endpoint for resolution of disease in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship of transaminase level with metabolic variables and histology in NAFLD. Single center observational study was conducted in a gastroenterology clinic at Cuttack in coastal Odisha.

Histological Evaluation of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Its Correlation with Different Noninvasive Scoring Systems with Special Reference to Fibrosis: A Single Center Experience.

Background: Although liver biopsy remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD], many non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis have recently been proposed and assessed as surrogates of liver biopsy.

Aims And Objective: To evaluate the degree of liver fibrosis by different non-invasive fibrosis scoring systems and to compare each non-invasive fibrosis scoring system with histological fibrosis stage.

Materials And Methods: The study population consists of consecutive patients with biopsy proven NAFLD.

Risk Factors Associated With Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Indians: A Case-Control Study.

Background/aims: NAFLD has today emerged as the leading cause of liver disorder. There is scanty data on risk factors associated with NAFLD emanating from India. The present study was conducted to identify the risk factors associated with NAFLD.

Ultrasonographic demonstration of inner tube sign: a tropical dilemma.

Introduction: Ultrasonographic demonstration of intra biliary parallel lines or "inner tube sign" is considered diagnostic for biliary ascariasis in regions where ascariasis is endemic.

Patients & Methods: 148 patients with inner tube sign on ultrasonography were evaluated. In most, diagnosis was confirmed by ultrasonographic demonstration of restitution of normal appearance of bile duct with passage of round worms in vomitus or faeces.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) without insulin resistance: Is it different?

Background And Aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is considered the hepatic manifestation of insulin resistance [IR]. However, a significant proportion of NAFLD patients are devoid of IR. Is NAFLD sans IR a different entity? The aim of the study was to compare the anthropometric, metabolic, biochemical, ultrasonography, and histological profile of NAFLD patients with and without IR.

Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report.

Introduction: Small smooth objects that enter the gut nearly always pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Retention of foreign objects may occur due to congenital obstructive anomaly of the gut.

Case Presentation: We report here a child who presented with features of small gut obstruction which were attributed to a foreign body impacted in the intestine.

Biliary ascariasis associated with chronic calcific pancreatitis of the tropics.

A case of biliary ascariasis associated with Chronic Calcific Pancreatitis of the tropics in a 50-year-old lady is reported. Although acute pancreatitis is a common complication of biliary ascariasis, there are no reports linking ascariasis to chronic pancreatitis. The association of these two entities in the present case is most probably coincidental as both these entities are not very uncommon in coastal Orissa.

Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in coastal eastern India: a preliminary ultrasonographic survey.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common clinical condition which is fast assuming importance as a possible precursor of more serious liver disorders, including cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. There are no data in the published English literature on the prevalence of NAFLD in India. The present study was performed to assess a prevalence of NAFLD by ultrasonography in a general population in coastal eastern India.