Self-care practices and quality of life of filariasis patients in a gram panchayat of Paschim Burdwan district, West Bengal, India.

Background & Objectives: Self-care management is one of the important components in the goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and Quality of Life (QoL) has become an important deliverable in the present day health care system. The objective was to assess the self-care management of the affected limb and to find out the quality of life who were suffering from lymphoedema.

Methods: This was a community-based cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted during 2019-2020 in a Gourbazar gram panchayat area of Paschim Burdwan district of West Bengal, India.

Cardiac paraganglioma: clinical presentation, diagnostic approach and factors affecting short and long-term outcomes.

Background: We describe our experience of the case of a young female who presented with chest pain and was found to have an intra-pericardial mass that was later confirmed to be a paraganglioma. Although preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) did not show any left atrial invasion, the patient died in the peri-operative period due to irreparable damage of the cardiac structures from extensive neoplastic invasion. We then performed a retrospective analysis of the available literature to find the factors associated with adverse surgical and long-term outcomes in patients with cardiac paraganglioma.