Study of Prevalence of Abnormal Pap Smear and its Associated Risk Factors in HIV Positive Women: A Cross-sectional Study.

Objective: 1. To determine the prevalence of pre malignant cervical lesions in HIV positive women using conventional Pap smear. 2.

Multimodality management of leiomyosarcoma of the cervix.

We present the case of a young female patient who presented to the outpatient department with a history of bleeding per vagina, diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma of the cervix; the patient underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection. In this article, we mainly discuss multimodality therapy in the management of an unusual variety of tumour in the uterine cervix.

Prospective study on prevalence of anemia of pregnant women and its outcome: A community based study.

Background: Anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiency disorders affecting the pregnant women in the developing countries. Anemia during pregnancy is commonly associated with poor pregnancy outcome and can result in complications that threaten the life of both mother and fetus.

Objective: The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women and to determine its association with maternal and fetal outcomes.

Primary tubercular mastitis masquerading as malignancy.

The significance of primary tubercular mastitis is due to rare occurrence and often overlooked and misdiagnosed as pyogenic breast abscess or malignancy. Despite the high incidence of tuberculosis in India, reports of breast tuberculosis among the total number of mammary conditions varies between 0.64% and 3.

Fine needle aspiration cytology in pediatric age group with special reference to pediatric tumors: a retrospective study evaluating its diagnostic role and efficacy.

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a well-established diagnostic technique in adult mass lesions but a comparatively new technique to pediatric lesions.

Aim: The current study aims to evaluate the role of FNAC in pediatric age with special reference to pediatric tumors.

Subjects And Methods: A retrospective study of FNAC in children ≤ 18 years of age presenting with mass lesions was studied for 5 years.

Outcome of alcohol dependence: the role of continued care.

Aims: This study attempted to determine the effects of continued care on subjects with alcohol dependence.

Materials And Methods: Study patients were recruited from a slum in Bangalore. The control group comprised individuals from a lower socio-economic status.

Blood lipid profile and myocardial superoxide dismutase in swim-trained young and middle-aged rats: comparison between left and right ventricular adaptations to oxidative stress.

Region-wise interactive effects of age, swim intensity, and duration on exercise performance in the myocardium and serum lipid profile in young (4 months) and middle-aged (12 months) rats were examined. Animals were allocated to the sedentary control (SE-C) or one of the nine trainee groups. Swim training was for 6 days/week and for 4 weeks at 3 durations (20, 40, and 60 min/day) and intensities (2%, low; 3%, medium; 5%, high).

Dietary vitamin E and physical exercise: II. Antioxidant status and lipofuscin-like substances in aging rat heart.

The heart faces a high risk of free radical injury owing to a slow generation of antioxidant (AO) enzymes by its cells. A general decline in this system may be another reason for the development of age-related diseases. Although the correlation between aging and exercise has been studied extensively, these studies have produced conflicting data on the effects of vitamin E on the aging heart, when it is introduced as an intervening factor.

Dietary vitamin E and physical exercise: I. Altered endurance capacity and plasma lipid profile in ageing rats.

The effect of vitamin E on the exercise performance and plasma lipid profile was studied in male Wistar rats of 4-(young adults), 8-(old adults), 12-(middle-age) and 22-months (old) of age. Animals were orally supplemented with vitamin E and allowed to swim for 30 min/day, 5 days/week and for a total period of 60 days. Swim velocity (S(v)), external work done (W(ext)) and endurance (E) capacity were the parameters that were used to assess the exercise performance of the trained rats that were either supplemented or non-supplemented with the dietary antioxidant.

Temperature-induced changes in anaerobic capacity of interventricular septum in trained young and middle-aged rats.

The interventricular site has been proposed as one of the sites for the myocyte cell death with aging and thereby enhancing the possibility of ventricular dysfunction with aging. Variations in lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), a key glycolytic regulatory enzyme along with its isomers were used as indices to evaluate the anaerobic capacity of the interventricular septum (IVS) in 2-month-old (young) and 12-month-old (middle-aged) rats trained to swim at 25 degrees C (cold, C) and 35 degrees C (thermo neutral, N) temperatures. Blood lactate (La) and LDH along with its isoenzymes in the IVS were assessed and compared with untrained and sedentary rats.

Adaptations in lactate dehydrogenase and its isozymes in aging mammalian myocardium: interaction of exercise and temperature.

The responses of the left and right ventricles (LV and RV) to physical conditioning in cold (25 degrees C) and thermoneutral temperatures (35 degrees C), with special reference to lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and its isoenzyme profile, were studied in the 2-month (young)- and 12-month (middle-aged)-old rats. Moderate hypertrophy was a common observation irrespective of age, region and swim temperature. LV, however, hypertrophied to a significantly lesser extent in the middle-aged, than the RV.