Atypical manifestations of Plasmodium vivax malaria.

About 110 patients were enrolled to study the atypical presentations and the chloroquine sensitivity pattern of Plasmodium vivax malaria. The diagnosis was made from Giemsa stained peripheral blood smear. The co-infection of falciparum malaria was excluded both by smear and ParaSight F-test.

Raised serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substance levels in malaria.

To study the extent of serum lipid peroxidation in malaria, 62 patients of falciparum malaria (18 uncomplicated and 44 complicated), 15 patients of vivax malaria and 25 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. The extent of serum lipid peroxidation was evaluated by estimating serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) colorimetrically. The mean serum TBARS levels were 1.

Study on body mass index, lipid profile and lipid peroxidation status in coronary artery disease.

Among the many known risk factors of coronary artery disease (CAD) obesity and hypercholesterolaemia are important ones. Whatever may be the risk factor, the basic pathology of CAD is deposition of altered lipids on the endothelium. One of such altered lipid is oxidatively modified low density lipoprotein (LDL).

Clinicopathological profile of subacute hepatic failure.

Twenty two patients of subacute hepatic failure (SAHF), diagnosed when jaundice progressed for more than 8 weeks with appearance of ascites, with or without encephalopathy, along with biochemical evidence of hepatocellular damage, were studied. The male and female ratio was 4.5:1 and majority (45.