Screening for Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm During Transthoracic Echocardiography in Patient With Significant Coronary Artery Disease.

Background: Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has ethnic differences, and coronary artery disease (CAD) shares several risk factors with AAA. Sparse Indian data are available on this. We evaluated the prevalence of AAA during transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and risk factors of AAA in patients with CAD.

Comparative study of electrophysiological changes in snake bites.

Aims: To study and compare the electrophysiological changes in neuroparalytic or vasculotoxic snakebites.

Materials And Methods: 40 patients who had a definite history of snakebite, either vasculotoxic or neuroparalytic, were selected. They were grouped as Group A, 20 patients having a neuroparalytic snakebite with definite envenomation at the time of admission, and Group B, 20 patients having a vasculotoxic snakebite with definite envenomation at the time of admission.