Left ventricular global longitudinal strain in COVID-19 recovered patients.

Objectives: Myocardial injury during active coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection is well described; however, its persistence during recovery is unclear. We assessed left ventricle (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) using speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in COVID-19 recovered patients and its correlation with various parameters.

Methods: A total of 134 subjects within 30-45 days post recovery from COVID-19 infection and normal LV ejection fraction were enrolled.

Vitamin D Insufficiency Risk Score for Screening for Vitamin D Insufficiency.

Background And Aims: Vitamin D Deficiency/Insufficiency (VDD/VDI) is now recognized as a pandemic. Vitamin D is a versatile yet crucial factor which is vital for many metabolic functions in our body. Till now there is no screening tool for VDD/VDI.

A study on impact of oral health on general health among the elderly residing in a slum of Kolkata: A cross-sectional study.

Context: Oral health means more than only good teeth. It is a state-of-being-free from mouth and facial pain, oral and throat cancer, oral infections, periodontal diseases, tooth decay or loss, and other diseases/disorders. The age distribution of the world's population is changing.

Exposure to indoor air pollution and its perceived impact on health of women and their children: A household survey in a slum of Kolkata, India.

Background: One's house is believed to be the safest and the healthiest place to live in. Indoor air pollution (IAP) means the presence of unwanted substances in the indoor air at concentration toxic to health.

Objective: The objective of this study is to study the presence of IAP, its associated factors and impact on health of women residing in an urban slum of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Sun exposure and Vitamin D in rural India: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Vitamin D deficiency/Vitamin D Insufficiency (VDI) is now recognized as a pandemic. Cutaneous exposure to ultraviolet-B causes photolysis of epidermal 7-dehydrocholesterol, converting it to pre-Vitamin D3 (precholecalciferol), which then undergoes isomerization to form the stable hormone Vitamin D3.

Objectives: The objectives of the study is to determine the status of Vitamin D level among the adults residing in a rural area of West Bengal and to find out the optimal cutoff of the sun exposure for Vitamin D sufficiency.

Mechanical suction through wide bore catheters for nonsurgical management of Gharbi type III hepatic hydatid cysts.

Aim: To present our experience with management of complex hepatic hydatid cysts (Gharbi type III), using percutaneous large bore catheter drainage followed by active mechanical suction of cyst contents.

Methods: Eleven patients (6 males and 5 females with a mean age of 43.2 years), with 13 complex Gharbi type III hepatic hydatid cysts were included in the study.

Anomalously placed suprahepatic gall-bladder: A case detected on F-18 FDG PET/CT.

The purpose of this study was to appraise the imageologists of a possible mislocalization of tracer accumulation to anomalously placed gallbladder during positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) examination. PET/CT is increasingly playing an important role in staging and restaging of the disease process in cancer patients. With the advent of fusion imaging, the tracer accumulation can be correctly localized to a structure or lesion on CT.

Diagnostic value of 3D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in Takayasu's arteritis--a comparative study with digital subtraction angiography.

Objective: To assess the diagnostic value of 3D CEMRA in TA compared with DSA.

Methods: Twenty-two patients with clinically suspected TA based on 1990 ACR criteria for the classification of TA, were included in this study. There were 16 female and 6 male patients with ages ranging from 11 to 50 years (mean age 25 years).