J Assoc Physicians India
April 2022
Unlabelled: The sars -cov 2 causing covid 19 disease. B/l pneumonia, systemic inflammation, coagulation activation, ards , multiorgan failure are key features of covid 19. Patients need icu admission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a not-for-profit organization and was founded in 1972 by member organizations in 18 countries. WONCA now has 118 Member Organizations in 131 countries and territories with a membership of about 500,000 family doctors and more than 90 percent of the world's population. WONCA has seven regions, each of which has its own regional Council and run their own regional activities including conferences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Minim Invasive Gynecol
January 2020
Study Objective: Endometriosis of the urinary system accounts for less than 1% of all endometriosis, wherein bladder endometriosis is the most common. Bladder endometriosis is defined as endometriosis infiltrating the detrusor muscle and represents 85% of urinary tract endometriosis [1,2]. Segmental bladder resection/partial cystectomy is the bladder-preserving surgery and offers the complete removal of bladder endometriotic nodules [3,4].
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy affecting the peripheral nervous system treated with high-dose immunoglobulin, physical therapy, or plasmapheresis. Immunoglobulins are expensive and even plasmapheresis might not be affordable to patients visiting government set-ups.
Aims: This study was undertaken to emphasize the efficacy of plasmapheresis in treatment of adult GBS patients and to narrate methods of reducing the economic burden in the treatment of these patients using modified plasmapheresis.
Although abnormal liver function tests occur in 50-80% of cases with Turner syndrome, there are no previous reports of overt hepatic disease or hepatic granulomas associated with Turner's syndrome. We report three cases of Turner syndrome associated with hepatic granulomas with a wide range of liver dysfunction. Of the three patients, first patient underwent liver transplantation; second patient remained stable on immunosuppressants; and third patient died from complications of decompensated liver cirrhosis as she declined liver transplantation due to multiple comorbidities.
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