Coagulation profile in diabetes and its association with diabetic microvascular complications.

Objectives: To investigate the haemostatic parameters and to assesss their relationship with microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Materials And Methods: Coagulation and fibrinolysis parameters were measured in 60 type 2 diabetic patients (M:F 1:1) with (n=40) and without (n=20) diabetic microvascular complications and in 30 nondiabetic healthy subjects (M:F 1:1).

Results: The mean age of diabetic patients and healthy controls was 56.

Histoplasma capsulatum in adrenal gland aspirate--a case report.

We report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a 60-year-old non-immunocompromised patient who presented to us with fever and hepatosplenomegaly. Sonographic & CT examination of the abdomen showed bilateral adrenal masses. Cytological examination of the aspirated material from the mass showed yeast forms of H.

Choice of cooking oils--myths and realities.

In contrast to earlier epidemiologic studies showing a low prevalence of atherosclerotic heart disease (AHD) and type-2 dependent diabetes mellitus (Type-2 DM) in the Indian subcontinent, over the recent years, there has been an alarming increase in the prevalence of these diseases in Indians--both abroad and at home, attributable to increased dietary fat intake. Replacing the traditional cooking fats condemned to be atherogenic, with refined vegetable oils promoted as "heart-friendly" because of their polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content, unfortunately, has not been able to curtail this trend. Current data on dietary fats indicate that it is not just the presence of PUFA but the type of PUFA that is important--a high PUFA n-6 content and high n-6/n-3 ratio in dietary fats being atherogenic and diabetogenic.

ANA-negative SLE presenting with nephritis and oculomotor palsy--a case report.

Most large series of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have revealed a very small group of patients who are persistently antinuclear antibody (ANA) negative with prominent dermatologic involvement but infrequent neurological and renal involvement. We present a very unusual case report of a young female with ANA-negative SLE presenting with lupus nephritis and oculomotor palsy without any dermatologic manifestations.

Epidemiology and clinical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis--a retrospective study.

The epidemiology and clinical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis were studied retrospectively in 298 adult cases admitted in Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi over a 3-year period. These constituted 17% of the total number of admissions for tuberculosis. Age at presentation was variable with maximum cases in 21 to 40-year age group (58% of cases) with a mean age of 32.