Decrypting the occurrence of mucormycosis following dental extractions: A systematic review.

Background: Mucormycosis is a life-threatening opportunistic infection. The present systematic review was done to provide to date summary of the frequency of rhino-orbital-mucormycosis (ROM) cases following a tooth extraction, as there was no systematic review present till now to highlight it.

Method: The PubMed, PMC, Google Scholar, and Ovid Embase databases were searched thoroughly with appropriate keywords till April 2022 including the human population with language restrictions including English literature to collate case reports and case series regarding post-extraction Mucormycosis.

A systematic review of complications following selective dorsal rhizotomy in cerebral palsy.

Purpose: The literature lacks a concise overview of complications secondary to selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR). The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature regarding post-SDR complications, and to present them concisely.

Methods: The protocol of the review was registered on Open Science Framework.

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-associated longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) and primary Sjogren syndrome: a rare association.

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease (MOGAD) is a recent addition to the field of central nervous system inflammatory disorders. It can have a wide range of presentations, including optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or any combination of these. The aquaporin-4-positive neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a close differential owing to the similar clinical presentation.

Management of Symptomatic Grade I and II Laryngeal Cleft: Experience of a Tertiary Care Center and Review of Literature.

Laryngeal cleft is a rare pathology and needs a high index of suspicion for diagnosis. Various classifications are used but the Inglis classification which describes 4 grades of cleft is most widely accepted. Grade 3 and 4 clefts are very rare and are usually associated with other congenital abnormalities.

Aggressive vertebral hemangiomas in children.

Background: Aggressive vertebral hemangiomas are rare tumors in children, usually occurring in the thoracic spine that can cause significant neurological morbidity. They are technically difficult to treat with significant risk of blood loss during surgery.

Methods: We describe a case of aggressive vertebral hemangioma managed in our institution.

Long COVID following Omicron wave in Eastern India-A retrospective cohort study.

Long coronavirus disease (COVID) or postacute sequelae of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is widely reported but the data of long COVID after infection with the Omicron variant is limited. This study was conducted to estimate the incidence, characteristics of symptoms, and predictors of long COVID among COVID-19 patients diagnosed during the Omicron wave in Eastern India. The cohort of COVID-19 patients included were adults (≥18 years) diagnosed as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 positive with Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Histological difference in ligament flavum between degenerative lumbar canal stenosis and non-stenotic group: A prospective, comparative study.

Background: Ligament flavum (LF) hypertropy is the main etiopathogenesis of lumbar canal stenosis (LCS). The purely elastic LF undergoes a morphological adaptation including a reduction in the elastic fibers and a consequent increase in the collagen content, fibrosis, cicatrization, and calcification. However, the morphometric analysis can delineate the LF in patients with LCS from those without LCS, which would help in better understanding LCS pathogenesis.

Sociodemographic Determinants of Willingness and Extent to Pay for COVID-19 Vaccine in India.

Background: Responding to the fast transmission rates and increasing fatality rates, countries across the world expedited the development and deployment of the vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Evaluation of individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) would provide pertinent information regarding future demand and financing preferences, which shall help to devise the effective payment strategy for COVID-19 vaccination.

Methods: A nationwide, cross-sectional, and self-administered online survey using a structured questionnaire was conducted to identify the sociodemographic determinants of willingness and extent to pay for COVID-19 vaccine in India.

Inguinal lymph node metastasis in treated breast cancer: an extremely rare presentation and review of literature.

Metastasis to inguinal lymph nodes from breast cancer is extremely rare and only a handful of cases have been reported in the literature to date. We report a case of a postmenopausal female patient who was a treated case of right breast cancer and developed inguinal metastases after 9 months. An excisional biopsy of the lesion confirmed the diagnosis.

Intracranial extraosseous dural-based Ewing's sarcoma with fluid-haematocrit levels: imaging findings of a rare tumour.

Extraosseous dural-based primary Ewing's sarcoma of the central nervous system is a rare tumour posing a diagnostic challenge. On cross-sectional radiological imaging, the lesion has an extra-axial location with heterogeneous appearance. These lesions are usually multicystic with internal haemorrhage causing fluid-haematocrit levels.

Competency-based child and adolescent psychiatry curriculum for Indian medical graduates: Need of the hour.

The National Medical Council of India has introduced a Competency-Based Medical Curriculum for structured training of Indian Medical Graduates. The curriculum envisages training of the medical graduate in Bloom's cognitive, affective and communication skills as per Miller's competence framework. This competency-based curriculum has opened the way towards a structured training program for medical graduates to impart evidence-based teaching and groom them into holistic physicians.

Low clarithromycin resistance in virulent Helicobacter pylori from dyspeptic patients at a tertiary care centre in Odisha.

Purpose: Universal eradication or use of failing antibiotic can add fuel to the antimicrobial resistance pandemic. Outcome of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection depends at least partly virulence factors and its eradication as preventive measure against gastric cancer is advocated by some guidelines. There is need to identify candidates at risk for gastric cancer and antimicrobial resistance in HP for rational management.

Extensive papulonodular xanthoma: a diagnostic clue to homozygous familial hyperlipidaemia.

A man in his early 30s, presented with multiple soft tissue swellings over the buttocks, around the knees, ankles and dorsum of both the hands since childhood. His father and paternal uncle had similar lesions, and his father had coronary artery disease. One of his sisters had a history of sudden death due to an unknown cause at 14 years.