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Leprosy is an infectious disease characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from tuberculoid to lepromatous disease with immunologically unstable borderline forms in between. In clinical practice cases often do not conform to a classical textbook description, which may lead to misdiagnosis if not properly investigated. A 22-year-old patient presented to us with erythematous plaques localized to the face.

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Reminiscences.

Indian Dermatol Online J

July 2010

Former Director-Professor of Dermato-Venereology, Calicut Medical College, Past National President, IADVL, Calicut - 673 02, Kerala, India.

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Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common serious complication of cirrhosis, and carries a high morbidity and mortality. Rapid diagnosis and prompt treatment of this condition may improve survival of such patients.

Objective: To validate the diagnostic efficacy of a leukocyte esterase reagent (LER) strip test for rapid, bedside diagnosis of SBP.

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Article Synopsis
  • Long-term follow-up studies on patients with extrahepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) post-endoscopic sclerotherapy (EST) for esophageal varices are scarce.
  • A study tracked 198 patients for around 20 years, revealing that 17.2% experienced rebleeding, mostly due to recurrent varices.
  • Despite some recurrence, EST is deemed effective, with notable stability in patient condition after the first decade post-treatment.
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Intestinal obstruction is a common surgical emergency caused by varied conditions. Appendicitis as a cause is both uncommon and unsuspected. Strangulation of intestine caused by appendicitis is extremely rare with very few cases reported in literature.

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Autopsy findings in a case of tuberous sclerosis.

J Forensic Leg Med

August 2009

Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Calicut Medical College, Calicut-8, Kozhikode, Kerala 673004, India.

Tuberous sclerosis is a neurocutaneous disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance. It is characterized by the triad of seizures, mental retardation, angiofibromas of the face though the triad is not always complete. We incidentally encountered a case of tuberous sclerosis in a case of hanging.

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NT-proBNP is produced from both atria and ventricles. The primary regulation of production is at the synthesis level. The plasma half-life of NT-proBNP is 60-120 min.

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Tuberculosis may involve any region of the gastrointestinal tract but involvement of the rectum is rare. The literature concerning rectal tuberculosis in AIDS patients is limited. We report the case of rectal tuberculosis mimicking malignancy, both clinically and endoscopically, in an AIDS patient.

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A 30-year-old lady presented with a 6-month history of recurrent partial intestinal obstruction associated with intermittent fever, anorexia and weight loss. Barium meal follow-through and colonoscopic evaluation suggested ulceration of the ileum and caecum with small bowel obstruction. Histology of the lesions showed marked acute and chronic inflammation consistent with ulceration and granulation tissue.

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There is limited information regarding the efficacy of 'directly observed treatment short course' (DOTS) in the treatment of intestinal tuberculosis. We randomized patients with ileocecal or colonic tuberculosis to receive daily tuberculosis chemotherapy (Group A) or DOTS (Group B). Patients received isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol daily for two months in group A and thrice weekly for 2 months in group B, followed by isoniazid and rifampicin daily for 7 months in group A and thrice weekly for 4 months in group B.

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Non-familial juvenile polyposis in prolapsed rectum.

Trop Gastroenterol

May 2008

Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode 673 008, Kerala, India.

Juvenile polyposis located solely on prolapsed rectal mucosa is very unusual. We report the case of a 17-year old boy who presented to us with a history of passage of blood and mucus per rectum of a mass protruding through the anus during defecation. Per rectal and colonoscopic examinations revealed numerous polyps located solely on the prolapsed rectal mucosa.

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Atrial fibrillation and Brugada syndrome.

J Am Coll Cardiol

March 2008

Department of Cardiology, Calicut Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India.

Brugada syndrome is characterized by right bundle branch block pattern with ST-segment elevation in leads V(1) to V(3) and a propensity for sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrhythmias. The arrhythmogenic substrate in Brugada syndrome may not be restricted to the ventricles, and atrial arrhythmias are being increasingly reported. Incidences of spontaneous atrial arrhythmias vary from 6% to 38% and those of inducible atrial arrhythmias from 3% to 100%.

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Background And Aim: Rigid proctoscopy, the gold standard for detecting hemorrhoids, has become a neglected procedure in the era of flexible endoscopy. Evaluation of hemorrhoids is often done with the retroflexed fiberoptic colonoscope. The aim of this study was to evaluate the technique of videoanoscopy in comparison with retroflexion of colonoscope in the rectum to detect hemorrhoids and to correlate objective findings of hemorrhoids and their relation to bleeding.

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Background: In Western countries, colonic polyps are usually adenomatous in nature, are evenly distributed along the entire colon in asymptomatic per-sons and show a left-sided predominance in symptomatic patients. There is dearth of such literature from India.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed reports of colonoscopies done in our institution during the period 2001 to 2005.

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Background And Aims: Tegaserod is approved for the treatment of constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (C-IBS) in females. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of tegaserod on colonic transit time (CTT) and symptoms in male patients with C-IBS.

Methods: Forty-four males with C-IBS (Rome II) were enrolled.

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Background: Uveitis is increasingly being reported from south India following epidemics of leptospirosis. The incidence of eye involvement in treated patients has not been investigated properly in prospective studies.

Aims: To determine the incidence, clinical spectrum and risk factors for Leptospiral uveitis in antibiotic-treated patients.

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Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism presenting as secondary myelofibrosis.

J Assoc Physicians India

October 2006

Department of General Medicine and Medical Oncology and Division of Hematology, Calicut Medical College.

Myelofibrosis occurring both in childhood and adulthood is most commonly idiopathic, followed by neoplastic infiltration of the bone marrow. We are reporting an extremely rare association of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism associated with stable secondary myelofibrosis.

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