Publications by authors named "Raj M Dongol"

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) presents significant diagnostic challenges, particularly in patients with multiple comorbidities. We report a case involving a 72-year-old female treated with cefepime for urosepsis, who developed markedly elevated liver enzymes after two weeks of therapy. After excluding other potential causes, including viral hepatitis, ischemia, and autoimmune hepatitis, cefepime-induced mixed pattern liver injury was determined to be the likely etiology of the elevated liver enzymes.

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Purpose: This study is to assess efficacy of fibrin sealant in vein anastomosis in renal transplantation in preventing blood loss and postoperative peri-graft collection.

Methods: This is a retrospective analytical case-control study of renal transplantations done in a tertiary care center in India in a 1-year period. Fibrin sealant was randomly used in vein anastomosis during the period.

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Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) is a rare cystic lung lesion formed as a result of anomalous development of airways in fetal life. Majority of the cases are recognized in neonates and infants with respiratory distress with very few presenting later in adult life. A 24-year-old male with history of three separate episodes of pneumonia in the last 6 months presented with left sided pleuritic chest pain for 4 days.

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Background: Neurotoxicity is a dose-limiting side-effect of vincristine therapy. Blindness is a rare central neurotoxicity of vincristine with few case reports.

Case Report: In the present article, we report a rare case of vincristine-induced blindness in a patient with diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

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