Introduction: A dislodged gastrostomy tube (GT) is a common complaint that requires evaluation in the pediatric emergency department (ED) and, on occasion, will require stoma dilation to successfully replace the GT. The objective of this study was to describe the frequency that stoma dilation is required, the success rate of replacement, complications encountered, and the techniques used to confirm placement of the GT after dilation.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective medical record review of children 0-18 years who presented to the pediatric ED from February 2013 through February 2015 with a dislodged GT that required stoma dilation by pediatric emergency physicians with serially increasing Foley catheter sizes prior to successful placement of the GT.
Introduction: The First Basal Insulin Evaluation (FINE) Asia study was a prospective, observational registry evaluating basal insulin initiation in Asian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus inadequately controlled by oral antihyperglycemic agents.
Methods: The objective of this post hoc analysis was to observe and report the findings from individual participating countries. The primary endpoint was change in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA) from baseline to month 6 after basal insulin initiation.
Context: Pap smear testing as a conventional cervical screening approach has limitations for implementation and aided visual cervical testing has varying results in different regions.
Aims: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the performance of aided visual cervical screening tests as against conventional Pap smear testing in a rural community setting of North India.
Settings And Design: This was a rural community based cross-sectional study.
Cervical cancer is one of the most common gynecological malignancies that causes a serious health problem worldwide. The aim of the present study was to analyze the association of p53 codon72 (arginine/proline) polymorphism (rs1042522) and Murine Double Minute 2 (MDM2) SNP309 T/G (rs2279744) with the advancement of cervical cancer by using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method followed by direct sequencing. The frequencies of GG genotype at 309 position in the second promoter (P2) of MDM2 and Arginine in codon72 of p53 were found to be 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated the association of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) II (DRB1 and DQB1) alleles with susceptibility to human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cervical precancer and cancer cases in a hospital-based case-control study in a northern Indian population. A total of 202 subjects, including 100 patients comprising 31 cervical precancer (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN] 2/3) and 69 invasive cervical cancer cases, and 102 healthy controls participated in the study. Both patients and controls were screened for HPV infection using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR-based approach.
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