Study on incidence of bleeding in hospitalized patients after antithrombotic therapy at a tertiary care hospital.

Objectives: To monitor the different antithrombotic drug combinations, determine the incidence, magnitude of bleeding and the association of HAS-BLED risk scoring schema with the magnitude of bleeding as defined using TIMI bleeding criteria.

Methods: A prospective observational study in a cohort of patients for a period of 8 months, at one of the tertiary care center-Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, was conducted. Consecutive patients were enrolled and followed from the date of admission till the adverse events are perceived/date of discharge.

Internal maxillary artery ligation for idiopathic intractable epistaxis.

Epistaxis though common, is rarely life threatening. Routinely nose pinching, anterior find posterior nasal packing and endoscopic cauterization of bleeding points is sufficient to control epistaxis in 99% of the cases. It is mandatory to rule out local and systemic causes before labeling a case as idiopathic by using a battery of investigative modalities.

Duplex colour Doppler sonography - role in neck metastasis.

The present study was done to evaluate the rote of Duplex colour Doppler Sonography in neck metastasis. 30 patients with primary head and neck cancer were evaluated by Duplex colour Doppier sonography and results analysed. In more than 95% of cases, the vascular status could be established before any form of therapy was instituted.

Unusual foreign bodies in ear, nose and throat practice.

Ear, Nose and Throat practice presents the surgeons with an amazing variety of foreign bodies to deal with, some of them truly unusual. Presented here are two cases with foreign bodies unusual in nature, extracted by improvisation.